iotman (59)in #science • 15 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project 🪐Recorded from 2024 March 10, to 2025 March 1, this composited series of images reveals a pattern in the seasonal drift…iotman (59)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Blue Ghost's Diamond Ring 🪐On March 14 the Full Moon slid through Earth's dark umbral shadow and denizens of planet Earth were treated to a total…iotman (59)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: LDN 1235: The Shark Nebula 🪐There is no sea on Earth large enough to contain the Shark nebula. This predator apparition poses us no danger as it…iotman (59)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun 🪐This was a very unusual type of solar eclipse. Typically, it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. In 2012…iotman (59)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Tololo Totality 🪐On March 14 the Moon was Full. In an appropriate celebration of Pi day, that put the Moon 3.14 radians (180 degrees)…iotman (59)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow 🪐What phase of the Moon is 3.14 radians from the Sun? The Full Moon, of course. Even though the Moon might look full…iotman (59)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Protostars within Lynds 483 🪐Two protostars are hidden in a single pixel near the center of a striking hourglass-shaped nebula in this…iotman (59)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 772: The Fiddlehead Galaxy 🪐Why does this galaxy look like a curly vegetable? The Fiddlehead spiral galaxy likely gets its distorted spiral…iotman (59)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble 🪐Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest…iotman (59)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1499: The California Nebula 🪐Could Queen Calafia's mythical island exist in space? Perhaps not, but by chance the outline of this molecular space…iotman (59)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Cyclones at Jupiter's North Pole 🪐Why are there so many cyclones around the north pole of Jupiter? The topic is still being researched. NASA's robotic…iotman (59)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxies in Space 🪐The plane of our Milky Way galaxy extends beyond the limb of planet Earth in this space age exposure captured by…iotman (59)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Planetary Nebula Abell 7 🪐Very faint planetary nebula Abell 7 is about 1,800 light-years distant. It lies just south of Orion in planet Earth's…iotman (59)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Starburst Galaxy Messier 94 🪐Beautiful island universe Messier 94 lies a mere 15 million light-years distant in the northern constellation of the…iotman (59)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Seven Sisters versus California 🪐On the right, dressed in blue, is the Pleiades. Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades is one of the…iotman (59)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Quadruple Alignment over Italy 🪐Why does this Moon look so unusual? A key reason is its vivid red color. The color is caused by the deflection of…iotman (59)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Blue Ghost to the Moon 🪐With spacecraft thrusters at top center, the rugged surface of the Moon lies below the Blue Ghost lander in this space…iotman (59)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Athena to the Moon 🪐Planet Earth hangs in the background of this space age selfie. The snapshot was captured by the IM-2 Nova-C lander…iotman (59)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Open Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158 🪐Framed in this single, starry, telescopic field of view are two open star clusters, M35 and NGC 2158. Located within…iotman (59)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Einstein Ring Surrounds Nearby Galaxy Center 🪐Do you see the ring? If you look very closely at the center of the featured galaxy NGC 6505, a ring becomes evident.…
