iotman (6)in #science • 10 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Zeta and Rho Ophiuchi with Milky Way 🪐Behold one of the most photogenic regions of the night sky, captured impressively. Featured, the band of our Milky Way Galaxy runs diagonally along the bottom-left corner, while…iotman (6)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Spiral Galaxy NGC 2566 from Webb 🪐What’s happening in the center of spiral galaxy NGC 2566? First, the eight rays that appear to be coming out of the center in the featured infrared image are not real — they are…iotman (6)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Beneath Jupiter 🪐Jupiter is stranger than we knew. NASA's Juno spacecraft has now completed over 70 swoops past Jupiter as it moves around its highly elliptical orbit. Pictured from 2017, Jupiter…iotman (6)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Deimos Before Sunrise 🪐Deimos takes 30 hours and 18 minutes to complete one orbit around the Red Planet. That's a little more than one Martian day or sol which is about 24 hours and 40 minutes long, so…iotman (6)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6366 vs 47 Ophiuchi 🪐Most globular star clusters roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy, but globular cluster NGC 6366 lies close to the galactic plane. About 12,000 light-years away toward the…iotman (6)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Curly Spiral Galaxy M63 🪐A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is nearby, about 30 million light-years distant toward the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as NGC 5055…iotman (6)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Milky Way over Maunakea 🪐Have you ever seen the band of our Milky Way Galaxy? In a clear sky from a dark location at the right time, a faint band of light becomes visible across the sky. Soon after…iotman (6)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited 🪐This close-up from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera shows weathered craters and windblown deposits in southern Acidalia Planitia. A striking shade of blue in…iotman (6)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Plutonian Landscape 🪐This shadowy landscape of majestic mountains and icy plains stretches toward the horizon on a small, distant world. It was captured from a range of about 18,000 kilometers when…iotman (6)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Gaia Reconstructs a Top View of our Galaxy 🪐What does our Milky Way Galaxy look like from the top? Because we are on the inside, humanity can’t get an actual picture. Recently, however, just such a map has been made using…iotman (6)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Gaia Reconstructs a Side View of our Galaxy 🪐What does our Milky Way Galaxy look like from the side? Because we are on the inside, humanity can’t get an actual picture. Recently, however, just such a map has been made using…iotman (6)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Surface of Venus from Venera 14 🪐If you could stand on Venus -- what would you see? Pictured is the view from Venera 14, a robotic Soviet lander which parachuted and air-braked down through the thick Venusian…iotman (6)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Yogi and Friends in 3D 🪐This picture from July 1997 shows a ramp from the Pathfinder lander, the Sojourner robot rover, deflated landing airbags, a couch, Barnacle Bill and Yogi Rock appear together in…iotman (6)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: IXPE Explores a Black Hole Jet 🪐How do black holes create X-rays? Answering this long-standing question was significantly advanced recently with data taken by NASA’s IXPE satellite. X-rays cannot exit a black…iotman (6)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M1: The Incredible Expanding Crab 🪐Cataloged as M1, the Crab Nebula is the first on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab Nebula is now known to be a supernova remnant, an…iotman (6)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82 🪐In the upper left corner, surrounded by blue arms and dotted with red nebulas, is spiral galaxy M81. In the lower right corner, marked by a light central line and surrounded by…iotman (6)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Planet Lines Across Water 🪐What’s causing those lines? Objects in the sky sometimes appear reflected as lines across water — but why? If the water’s surface is smooth, then reflected objects would appear…iotman (6)in #science • 24 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Spin up of a Supermassive Black Hole 🪐How fast can a black hole spin? If any object made of regular matter spins too fast -- it breaks apart. But a black hole might not be able to break apart -- and its maximum spin…iotman (6)in #science • 25 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Titan: Moon over Saturn 🪐Like Earth's moon, Saturn's largest moon Titan is locked in synchronous rotation with its planet. This mosaic of images recorded by the Cassini spacecraft in May of 2012 shows…iotman (6)in #science • 26 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Young Star Cluster NGC 346 🪐The most massive young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud is NGC 346, embedded in our small satellite galaxy's largest star forming region some 210,000 light-years…
