iotman (59)in #science • 15 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble 🪐Gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is a mere 35 million light-years away, toward the northern springtime constellation…iotman (59)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Rosette Nebula Deep Field 🪐Can you find the Rosette Nebula? The red flowery-looking nebula just above the image center may seem a good choice…iotman (59)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: APOD is 30 Years Old Today 🪐APOD is 30 years old today. In celebration, today's picture uses past APODs as tiles arranged to create a single…iotman (59)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Two Worlds, One Sun 🪐How different does sunset appear from Mars than from Earth? For comparison, two images of our common star were taken…iotman (59)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Meteors and Satellite Trails over the Limay River 🪐What are all those streaks in the sky? A galaxy, many satellite trails, and a few meteors. First, far in the…iotman (59)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Rubin's Galaxy 🪐In this Hubble Space Telescope image the bright, spiky stars lie in the foreground toward the heroic northern…iotman (59)in #science • 8 days 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…iotman (59)in #science • 9 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…iotman (59)in #science • 10 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…iotman (59)in #science • 11 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…iotman (59)in #science • 12 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…iotman (59)in #science • 13 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…iotman (59)in #science • 14 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…iotman (59)in #science • 15 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…iotman (59)in #science • 16 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…iotman (59)in #science • 17 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…iotman (59)in #science • 18 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…iotman (59)in #science • 19 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…iotman (59)in #science • 20 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…iotman (59)in #science • 22 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…
