iotman (6)in #science • 17 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Solar Eclipse 🪐On April 20, 2023 the shadow of a New Moon raced across planet Earth's southern hemisphere. When viewed along a narrow path that mostly avoided landfall, the Moon in silhouette…iotman (6)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 25 Brightest Stars in the Night Sky 🪐Do you know the names of some of the brightest stars? It's likely that you do, even though some bright stars have names so old they date back to near the beginning of written…iotman (6)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Enceladus in True Color 🪐Do oceans under the ice of Saturn's moon Enceladus contain life? A reason to think so involves long features -- some dubbed tiger stripes -- that are known to be spewing ice…iotman (6)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Between Scylla and Charybdis: A Double Cosmic Discovery 🪐Can you identify this celestial object? Likely not — because this is a discovery image. Massive stars forge heavy elements in their cores and, after a few million years, end…iotman (6)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Facing NGC 3344 🪐From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 3344 face-on. Nearly 40,000 light-years across, the big, beautiful spiral galaxy is located just 20 million light-years…iotman (6)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity 🪐On the Mars rover's mission Sol 46 or Earth date April 6, 2021, Perseverance held out a robotic arm to take its first selfie on Mars. The WATSON camera at the end of the arm was…iotman (6)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6302: The Butterfly Nebula 🪐The bright clusters and nebulae of planet Earth's night sky are often given the names of flowers or insects, and its whopping 3 light-year wingspan, NGC 6302 is no exception.…iotman (6)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Savudrija Star Trails 🪐Savudrija lighthouse shines along the coast near the northern end of the Istrian peninsula in this well-composed night skyscape. A navigational aid for sailors on the Adriatic…iotman (6)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Milky Road to the Rubin Observatory 🪐Is the sky the same every night? No -- the night sky changes every night in many ways. To better explore how the night sky changes, the USA's NSF and DOE commissioned the Vera C.…iotman (6)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Rainbow Airglow over the Azores 🪐Why would the sky glow like a giant repeating rainbow? Airglow. Now, air glows all of the time, but it is usually hard to see. A disturbance however -- like an approaching…iotman (6)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Ancient Supernova 🪐Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 7,000 years ago that star exploded in a supernova, leaving the Veil Nebula. At the time, the expanding…iotman (6)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble 🪐What's happening to this spiral galaxy? Although details remain uncertain, it surely has to do with an ongoing battle with its smaller galactic neighbor. The featured galaxy is…iotman (6)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Afterimage Sunset 🪐On May 7, the Sun setting behind a church bell tower was captured in this filtered and manipulated digital skyscape from Ragusa, Sicily, planet Earth. In this version of the…iotman (6)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Irregular Dwarf Galaxy Sextans A 🪐Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the attention, flaunting young, bright, blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions along graceful, symmetric spiral arms. But…iotman (6)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Herbig-Haro 24 🪐This might look like a double-bladed lightsaber, but these two cosmic jets actually beam outward from a newborn star in a galaxy near you. Constructed from Hubble Space Telescope…iotman (6)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Zeta and Rho Ophiuchi with Milky Way 🪐Behold one of the most photogenic regions of the night sky, captured impressively. Featured, the band of our Milky Way Galaxy runs diagonally along the bottom-left corner, while…iotman (6)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Spiral Galaxy NGC 2566 from Webb 🪐What’s happening in the center of spiral galaxy NGC 2566? First, the eight rays that appear to be coming out of the center in the featured infrared image are not real — they are…iotman (6)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Beneath Jupiter 🪐Jupiter is stranger than we knew. NASA's Juno spacecraft has now completed over 70 swoops past Jupiter as it moves around its highly elliptical orbit. Pictured from 2017, Jupiter…iotman (6)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Deimos Before Sunrise 🪐Deimos takes 30 hours and 18 minutes to complete one orbit around the Red Planet. That's a little more than one Martian day or sol which is about 24 hours and 40 minutes long, so…iotman (6)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6366 vs 47 Ophiuchi 🪐Most globular star clusters roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy, but globular cluster NGC 6366 lies close to the galactic plane. About 12,000 light-years away toward the…
