iotman (59)in #science • 21 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Small Dark Nebula 🪐A small, dark, nebula looks isolated near the center of this telescopic close-up. The wedge-shaped cosmic cloudlet…iotman (59)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Supernova 2025rbs in NGC 7331 🪐A long time ago in a galaxy 50 million light-years away, a star exploded. Light from that supernova was first detected…iotman (59)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Coronal Loops on the Sun 🪐Our Sun frequently erupts in loops. Hot solar plasma jumps off the Sun's surface into prominences, with the most…iotman (59)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Helix Nebula Deep Field 🪐Is the Helix Nebula looking at you? No, not in any biological sense, but it does look quite like an eye. The Helix…iotman (59)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Lightning over the Volcano of Water 🪐Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? You're not alone. Details of what causes lightning are still being…iotman (59)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 (59)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Twelve Years of Kappa Cygnids 🪐Meteors from the Kappa Cygnid meteor shower are captured in this time-lapse composite skyscape. The minor meteor…iotman (59)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Titan Shadow Transit 🪐very 15 years or so, Saturn's rings are tilted edge-on to our line of sight. As the bright, beautiful ring system…iotman (59)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Fireball over Cape San Blas 🪐Have you ever seen a fireball? In astronomy, a fireball is a very bright meteor -- one at least as bright as Venus…iotman (59)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Double Detonation Supernova 🪐Can some supernovas explode twice? Yes, when the first explosion acts like a detonator for the second. This is a…iotman (59)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Cat's Paw Nebula from Webb Space Telescope 🪐Nebulas are perhaps as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats are for getting into trouble.…iotman (59)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Lunar Nearside 🪐About 1,300 images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft's wide angle camera were used to compose this…iotman (59)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 6 🪐The sixth object in Charles Messier's famous catalog of things which are not comets, Messier 6 is a galactic or open…iotman (59)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: ISS Meets Saturn 🪐This month, bright planet Saturn rises in evening skies, its rings oriented nearly edge-on when viewed from planet…iotman (59)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 3I/ATLAS 🪐Discovered on July 1 with the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert, System) survey telescope in…iotman (59)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Rosette Nebula from DECam 🪐Would the Rosette Nebula by any other name look as sweet? The bland New General Catalog designation of NGC 2237…iotman (59)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Collapse in Hebes Chasma on Mars 🪐What's happened in Hebes Chasma on Mars? Hebes Chasma is a depression just north of the enormous Valles Marineris…iotman (59)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 2685: The Helix Galaxy 🪐What is going on with this galaxy? NGC 2685 is a confirmed polar ring galaxy - a rare type of galaxy with stars, gas…iotman (59)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula 🪐Why isn't this ant a big sphere? Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar to our Sun that is, surely…iotman (59)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Clouds and the Golden Moon 🪐As the Sun set, a bright Full Moon rose on July 10. Its golden light illuminates clouds drifting through southern…
