Happy Birthday to Sir Brian May, born 19 July 1947, musician extraordinaire and astrophysicist 😎.
May graduated from Imperial College London with a BSc degree in math and physics. He worked on his PhD in astrophysics from 1970 to 1974, until his musical career took off. He finished it in 2006-2007!
Lately, May has collaborated with NASA on the New Horizons, OSIRIS-REx and DART missions, with JAXA on Hayabusa2 and with ESA on the Hera mission.
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Here is a pair of stereoscopic images of the asteroid Dinkinesh and its satellite Selam, taken from the NASA Lucy spacecraft on Nov 1, 2023 and expertly stereo-processed by Dr. Brian May and Claudia Manzoni.
To view, either relax the axes of your eyes, as if staring through the screen to infinity (so that you are looking at the left image with your left eye and the right image with your right eye) or use a stereoscope. Is easier with a smaller image.
https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/lucy/2023/11/29/satellite-discovered-by-nasas-lucy-mission-gets-name/
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AkaSci 🛰️
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