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Jason Davis

@jasonrdavis.bsky.social
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I live in Tucson AZ, work in communications for NOIRLab, try to be funny at Tucson Improv Movement, and have two cats, one wife, and one daughter.

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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
noirlab.edu/public/news/...
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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Unlock New Understanding of Variable Stars - Rubin will observe more variable stars than any previous observatory, enabling investigations into the mechanisms th...
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, will soon collect an unprecedented amount of data on the changi...
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
www.space.com/astronomy/ma...
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NASA's Europa Clipper probe snaps ghostly thermal portrait of Mars en route to Jupiter
"We wanted no surprises in these new images."
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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Billboards in Tucson and Phoenix call out cuts made to Saguaro National Park
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
space.com
New images of Soviet Venus lander falling to Earth suggest its parachute may be out
The soon-to-reenter Soviet Cosmos 482 Venus probe is getting increased attention by satellite trackers – and new imagery provides some interesting details.
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Easily my best Rocket League trash goal
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
A proposed 52% cut to NSF.
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Danielle Gunn @daniellegunn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
On National Space Day, the Trump administration celebrates by proposing to gut the U.S.’s space science program.
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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Hmmm, wonder who took this picture... NASA Orbiter Spots Curiosity Rover Making Tracks to Next Science Stop www.nasa.gov/missions/mar...
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NASA Orbiter Spots Curiosity Rover Making Tracks to Next Science Stop - NASA
The image marks what may be the first time one of the agency’s Mars orbiters has captured the rover driving.
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
New DECam image of dark nebula Circinus West noirlab.edu/public/news/...
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
So it turns out I've been calling this asteroid "Donald Johnson" and apparently it's "Donald Johanson" science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
How can you not be romantic about baseball? 😍
A ring-billed gull flies across the field at Wrigley Field with a hot dog stuffed in its beak. (Getty Images)
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
lol
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
NOIRLab image of the week: All (Star) Trails Lead to Rubin noirlab.edu/public/image...
A long exposure image of Rubin Observatory in which the star trails produce a rainbow of colors
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Oldest known spiral galaxy ⭐
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NSF NOIRLab Astronomer Discovers Oldest Known Spiral Galaxy in the Universe - The discovery tells astronomers that galaxies resembling the Milky Way can develop much earlier in the Universe than was p...
An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to date. Named Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology, this ult...
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
There's a social media job available at NOIRLab: recruiting2.ultipro.com/SPA1004AURA/...
recruiting2.ultipro.com
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 09/04/2025
And lo, the trailer did drop: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2... #murderbot
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Apple TV+ debuts trailer for “Murderbot,” premiering May 16
Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for “Murderbot,” the comedic thriller series starring and executive produced by Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård.
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Moon over Maunakea noirlab.edu/public/image...
The Gemini North observatory under moonlight, shining an adaptive optics laser into the sky
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Gemini South observed the spicy near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 and got a handle on its shape noirlab.edu/public/news/...
A tiny dot amidst streaks of stars, captured by long-exposure imagesAn grey asteroid shaped like a lumpy hockey puck
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Danielle Gunn @daniellegunn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This is no April Fools’ joke: The Planetary Society has been nominated for TWO Webby awards! This is our first-ever nomination and a years-long dream of our team. Help us bring it home and cast your vote for us! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting... and vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
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Vote for the best of the internet
I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The views from the astronaut polar mission remind me of this shot from Galileo during a 1990 fyby www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia00...
Earth's south pole covered in ice
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I love how in this JWST image you can see the galaxy in the upper-left *through* the foreground gas and dust. www.flickr.com/photos/nasaw...
An orange pillar of gas and dust against a field of stars and galaxies, including one foreground galaxy that can be seen through the pillar.
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Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com · 27/03/2025
if I were MLB dot TV, I would simply work on Opening Day
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
MLB TV is busted on opening day, I just wanted to watch my boy Skenes throw the first pitch of the season 😭😭😭
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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
From NASA/ESA: JWST has captured auroras on Neptune, confirming their presence for the first time, making the planet the last gas giant in our solar system to have their presence confirmed. science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
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NASA’s Webb Captures Neptune’s Auroras For First Time - NASA Science
Long-sought auroral glow finally emerges under Webb’s powerful gaze
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CNN @cnn.com · 26/03/2025
Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant countermeasures, new research suggests.
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Toxic dust on Mars would present serious hazard for astronauts | CNN
Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant countermeasures, new research suggests.
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🌎🌙🔴 noirlab.edu/public/image...
A telescopic view of the Moon's limb, with a tiny Mars peeking out.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/03/2025
In deference to President Trump's anti-DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon aboard the Artemis III mission.
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NASA website axes a pledge to land a woman and a person of color on the moon
In deference to President Trump's anti-DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon aboard the Artemis III mission.
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The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It’s our Day of Action, and more than 100 passionate space advocates showed up on Capitol Hill to speak up for the future of space science. 🗣️ If you aren't joining us on the ground, sign this letter to stand with us. Then, pass it on. Change starts with you! planet.ly/action2025
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Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Pittsburgh Pirates @pirates.com · 20/03/2025
Opening Day is exactly one week from this very moment. That is all. 🏴‍☠️
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🚨JUST RELEASED🚨 The largest 3D map of our Universe to date. A dense cosmic web of galaxies and galaxy clusters. Earth is at the center. The more blue, the more distant the objects. Congrats to the DESI team! More goodies and a zoomable image: noirlab.edu/public/news/...
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Boooooooooo
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March Madness 2025: West Virginia responds to NCAA tournament snub — 'Shocked, saddened and disappointed'
In a statement, head coach Darian DeVries said that the team believes that it has 'a resume that is worthy of an NCAA Tournament team.'
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Gemini North’s MAROON-X instrument finds evidence for four mini-Earths around Barnard’s Star
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Planetary System Found Around Nearest Single Star - Gemini North’s MAROON-X instrument finds evidence for four mini-Earth exoplanets around our famous cosmic neighbor Barnard’s Star
Using in part the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab, astronomers have discover...
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 13/03/2025
Just in! 📸 The first images from yesterday’s #HeraMission flyby of Mars and its moon Deimos. 👇 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 12/03/2025
Lights, camera, action! The world's largest digital camera has been installed at NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory! 🤩 The LSST Camera was the final major component of the observatory. With it in place, Rubin officially enters its final phase of testing!🔭 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/lsst-camera-installed
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan
COLUMBUS, GA—Drawing a blank just seconds after landing on the trunk of the Douglas fir, local domestic shorthair Butterscotch confirmed Thursday that clinging to the side of the Christmas tree was th...
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Babe wake up new DECam image just dropped noirlab.edu/public/news/...
A spiral galaxy with grey-blue bands and red star-forming regions, on the backdrop of a crowded field of galaxies and stars.
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I've never seen anything like this: A Hubble image right down the cone of a relativistic jet coming from a supermassive black hole at the center of another galaxy. It's offset just 9 degrees from Earth. From www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Black and white image of concentric blurry circles decreasing in size to a single bright point source.
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