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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Tarantula Zone 🪐
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Harvest Moon over Sicily 🪐
For northern hemisphere dwellers, September's Full Moon was the Harvest Moon. Reflecting warm hues at sunset it rises over the historic town of Castiglione di Sicilia in this…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Waves of the Great Lacerta Nebula 🪐
It is one of the largest nebulas on the sky -- why isn't it better known? Roughly the same angular size as the Andromeda Galaxy, the Great Lacerta Nebula can be found toward the…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Long Snaking Filament on the Sun 🪐
rlier this month, the Sun exhibited one of the longer filaments on record. Visible as the bright curving streak around the image center, the snaking filament's full extent was…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Sprite Lightning over the Czech Republic 🪐
What are those red filaments in the sky? They are a rarely seen form of lightning confirmed only about 35 years ago: red sprites. Research has shown that following a powerful…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxy by the Lake 🪐
This 180 degree panoramic night skyscape captures our Milky Way Galaxy as it arcs above the horizon on a winter's night in August. Near midnight, the galactic center is close to…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Interstellar Voyager 🪐
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 on a grand tour of the outer planets of the Solar System. They have become the longest operating and most distant spacecraft from…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: North America and the Pelican 🪐
Fans of our fair planet might recognize the outlines of these cosmic clouds. On the left, bright emission outlined by dark, obscuring dust lanes seems to trace a continental…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Tarantula Stars R136 from Webb 🪐
Near the center of a nearby star-forming region lies a massive cluster containing some of the largest and hottest stars known. Collectively known as star cluster NGC 2070, these…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: An Iridescent Pileus Cloud over China 🪐
Yes, but how many dark clouds have a multicolored lining? Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Carina Cliffs from the Webb Space Telescope 🪐
Stars created these cliffs. Specifically, the destructive winds and energetic light from the stars in the open cluster NGC 3324 eroded away part of a mountain of dark…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Sea and Sky Glows over the Oregon Coast 🪐
very step caused the sand to light up blue. That glow was bioluminescence -- a blue radiance that also lights the surf in this surreal scene captured in mid-2018 at Meyer's Creek…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Sun and Moon and ISS 🪐
On August 25 Sun and Moon could both be seen in planet Earth's daytime skies. And so could the International Space Station. The ISS crossed the disk of the waning crescent Moon…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy 🪐
Find the Big Dipper and follow the handle away from the dipper's bowl until you get to the last bright star. Then, just slide your telescope a little south and west and you'll…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Tulip and Cygnus X-1 🪐
Framing a bright emission region, this telescopic view looks out along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the nebula rich constellation Cygnus the Swan. Popularly called…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Siccar Point on Mars 🪐
What created this unusual hill on Mars? No one is sure. A good outlook to survey the surrounding area, Siccar Point stands out from its surroundings in Gale Crater. The unusual…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Jupiter from the Webb Space Telescope 🪐
This new view of Jupiter is illuminating. High-resolution infrared images of Jupiter from the new James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) reveal, for example, previously unknown…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Horsehead Nebula Region without Stars 🪐
The famous Horsehead Nebula in Orion is not alone. A deep exposure shows that the dark familiar shaped indentation, visible just right of center, is part of a vast complex of…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: IC 5146: The Cocoon Nebula 🪐
Inside the Cocoon Nebula is a newly developing cluster of stars. Cataloged as IC 5146, the beautiful nebula is nearly 15 light-years wide. Climbing high in northern summer night…
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iotman (49)in #science • 2 years ago
🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Little Planet South Pole 🪐
Lights play around the horizon of this snowy little planet as it drifts through a starry night sky. Of course the little planet is actually planet Earth. Recorded on August 21…
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