iotman (60)in #science • 12 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NASA Science 🪐Have you ever seen the full moon rise? This colorful image was photographed last weekend in Sicily, just outside the…iotman (60)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NASA Science 🪐Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 is found within the boundaries of the head strong constellation Aries. Some 100 million…iotman (60)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Sh2-188: The Shrimp Nebula 🪐What causes the swirl in the Shrimp Nebula? Its high speed is likely. What is sure is that Sh2-188 is one of the…iotman (60)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe 🪐What color is the universe? More precisely, if the entire sky were smeared out, what color would the final mix be…iotman (60)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Andromeda before Photoshop 🪐What does the Andromeda galaxy really look like? The featured image shows how our Milky Way Galaxy's closest major…iotman (60)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way 🪐On August 15, this perseid meteor streaked through night skies over the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos at La…iotman (60)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Globular Cluster Omega Centauri 🪐Globular star cluster Omega Centauri packs about 10 million stars much older than the Sun into a volume some 150…iotman (60)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Ghosts of Five Supernovas 🪐The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image. It was acquired at Oukaïmeden Observatory in Morocco…iotman (60)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin 🪐A once-in-a-lifetime crater has appeared on the Moon! A comet or asteroid roughly the size of a humpback whale…iotman (60)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun 🪐This shot captured an unexpected silhouette. Which is it? It isn't the sunspots, the small dark regions caused by…iotman (60)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Cocoon Nebula Wide Field 🪐When does a nebula look like a comet? In this crowded starfield covering over two degrees within the high-flying…iotman (60)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Analemma over the Callanish Stones 🪐If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun's position…iotman (60)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Zodiacal Night 🪐Also known as the false dawn, a luminous band of zodiacal light is captured in this dark night skyscape. The serene…iotman (60)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy 🪐The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, Messier 33. Its popular…iotman (60)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula 🪐This treasure chest is full of stars. The featured image was obtained with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and…iotman (60)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Webb's View of M64 🪐Sometimes where Hubble finds darkness, Webb sees light. An example is today’s composite images of Messier 64 (M64), a…iotman (60)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus 🪐There was something behind the clouds. Upon close inspection, it was the Moon, which was hard to see yesterday around…iotman (60)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M83: The Southern Pinwheel 🪐Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the…iotman (60)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula 🪐What does this image look like to you? Many see a giraffe facing right, with neck stretched high and long legs…iotman (60)in #science • 24 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole 🪐Why are Saturn’s poles geometric? Saturn’s North Pole has been known to be surrounded by a hexagonal (6 sides) cloud…
