iotman (59)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Beautiful Trifid 🪐The beautiful Trifid Nebula is a cosmic study in contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies about 5,000 light-years away…iotman (59)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Pleiades in Red and Blue 🪐If you have looked at the sky and seen a group of stars about the size of the full Moon, that's the Pleiades (M45).…iotman (59)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS 🪐It came from outer space. An object from outside our Solar System is now passing through at high speed. Classified as…iotman (59)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Spiral North Pole of Mars 🪐Why is there a spiral around the North Pole of Mars? Each winter this pole develops a new outer layer about one meter…iotman (59)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula 🪐Difficult to capture, this mysterious, squid-shaped interstellar cloud spans nearly three full moons in planet Earth's…iotman (59)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Nova V462 Lupi Now Visible 🪐If you know where to look, you can see a thermonuclear explosion from a white dwarf star. Possibly two. Such…iotman (59)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Milky Way Through Otago Spires 🪐Does the Milky Way always rise between these two rocks? No. Capturing this stunning alignment took careful planning:…iotman (59)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Eye Sky a Dragon 🪐What do you see when you look into this sky? In the center, in the dark, do you see a night sky filled with stars? Do…iotman (59)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 4651: The Umbrella Galaxy 🪐It's raining stars. What appears to be a giant cosmic umbrella is now known to be a tidal stream of stars stripped…iotman (59)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Dark Sand Cascades on Mars 🪐Are these trees growing on Mars? No. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance…iotman (59)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Lunar Farside 🪐Tidally locked in synchronous rotation, the Moon always presents its familiar nearside to denizens of planet Earth.…iotman (59)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 109 🪐Big beautiful barred spiral galaxy Messier 109 is the 109th entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog of bright…iotman (59)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Seagull Nebula 🪐An interstellar expanse of glowing gas and obscuring dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet…iotman (59)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Rubin's First Look: A Sagittarius Skyscape 🪐This interstellar skyscape spans over 4 degrees across crowded starfields toward the constellation Sagittarius and the…iotman (59)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: In the Center of Spiral Galaxy M61 🪐Is there a spiral galaxy in the center of this spiral galaxy? Sort of. Image data from the Hubble Space Telescope…iotman (59)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: W5: Pillars of Star Formation 🪐How do stars form? Images of the star forming region W5 like those in the infrared by NASA's Wide Field Infrared…iotman (59)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Berry Bowl of Martian Spherules 🪐How were these unusual Martian spherules created? Thousands of unusual gray spherules made of iron and rock and…iotman (59)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Two Worlds, Two Analemmas 🪐Sure, that figure-8 shaped curve you get when you mark the position of the Sun in Earth's sky at the same time each…iotman (59)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Major Lunar Standstill 2024-2025 🪐dmonton, Alberta, Canada, planet Earth lies on the horizon. in this stack of panoramic composite images. In a monthly…iotman (59)in #science • 22 days 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…
