Jason Major

(Harbor seal 📸 in upper Narragansett Bay, RI on Wednesday morning)

Me and my winter weight 🤍

A space weather contender in the #NOAASatelliteShowdown. ☀️ Team Stormy Sun! On Jan. 18 to 19, 2026, @NOAA’s #GOESEast satellite observed a coronal mass ejection during a strong solar storm, with the moon and three planets visible in the same view. Like to vote!

A clear night at Kielder Starcamp! Very pleased with this pic of the Orion Nebula I got with my @Seestar_astro ...

@mana_sean @weatherdak Some do yes

@JPMajor @weatherdak So birds...swim?

Our atmosphere is powerful, complex, and sometimes just straight up.... freaky. Open and closed cell stratocumulus oscillate as ships cut through them forming tracks in the clouds.

All the stars are moving. Relative to what, in what direction, and at what rate—not to mention how apparent from our point of view—vary considerably.

At 5,500 light-years away, Messier 4 is the closest globular cluster to Earth. Globular clusters are spherical groups of stars, held together by gravity. This image spans the wide range of wavelengths that Hubble’s instruments are sensitive to: go.nasa.gov/4uChHZ2

TIMELAPSE: Gorgeous sunrise from Jamestown this morning looking east past the mansions of Newport, Sakonnet Light, & Cuttyhunk out on the Cape. Crashing waves and a distant marine layer seeping north giving some extra beauty! 🌅 @NBC10 - @natwxdesk

One of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission was that the target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with just a few smooth patches. Here's why >> go.nasa.gov/4sRd9MI

A G2 (Moderate) Geomagnetic Storm Watch has been issued for 19 Mar 2026 (UTC day) due to the arrival of CMEs that left the Sun on 16 Mar. For more information, see: youtube.com/shorts/MZIjop9…

On March 18, 1965, 30-year-old Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (1934-2019) became the first person to perform a spacewalk

In astronomical terms we're alive for just a short-period comet orbit or two. If we're lucky. ☄️

@SpaceLuisa @Science_George Keeps the planetary science kids out of trouble

@Science_George @JPMajor 🤣🤣🤣 indeed. Hey the positive, more objects for the next generation of scientists to study!

Saturn officially has way too many damn moons

A fridge-size space rock spectacularly broke apart over Ohio at 40,000 mph, creating a loud boom and a rare "fireball" that shone in the bright blue daytime sky. The rare sight, which exploded with the equivalent force of 250 tons of TNT, was also seen from space. livescience.com/space/meteoroi…

Apollo 15 Lunar Rover Footage Upscaled and Interpolated to 60 FPS Incredible upscaled footage from onboard the Apollo 15 Lunar Rover captured by Jim Irwin using the 16mm DAC camera. This footage has been upscaled and Interpolated to 60 FPS and synchronised to the mission audio by Moonpans Original footage source: Apollo Flight Journal Full video in comments

When scientists recently trained Hubble on Comet K1, they got a big surprise—the comet was breaking apart! The odds of that happening while Hubble watched are … well, astronomical: news.stsci.edu/3OXyAx3

@Science_George no lie

Day 032, orbit 0498 – Here is the very first picture I took from the Cupola… just like when you’re flying on a plane, clouds ⚪  are at times the only thing as far as the eye can see – the biggest difference being that we’re about 390 km higher than a commercial jetliner! The blue 🔵  tone of the image comes from the atmosphere, which scatters the shorter wavelengths of light, such as blue and violet. You see the same effect from a plane, though more faintly. Near the top of the picture, along the curve of the Earth, you can clearly see how thin the atmosphere is, fading from a pale to a deeper blue before disappearing into the black of space ⚫… Second pic is my very first picture from Dragon, with heart-shaped clouds, which I took as a message to spread good vibes. More pictures soon! 🌍 📷 Credit: NASA/ESA – S. Adenot (1), NASA/ESA/SpaceX (2) #εpsilon