iotman (3)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Tranquility and Serenity 🪐The Seas of Tranquility and Serenity are calm today. They're calm most every day though, since they are actually lunar maria, ancient lava flows filling in large impact basins on…iotman (3)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant 🪐In 185 AD, Chinese astronomers recorded the appearance of a new star in the Nanmen asterism. That part of the sky is identified with part of the southern constellation Centaurus…iotman (3)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Large Magellanic Cloud 🪐Have you ever seen another galaxy with your own eyes? The featured image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the closest neighbors of our Milky Way. If you are…iotman (3)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud and the Chandelier Cluster 🪐The Southern Crown (Corona Australis) dazzles with young and ancient celestial jewels. The Corona Australis Cloud is a collage of reflection and emission nebulae on the left of…iotman (3)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Turtle Rock on Mars 🪐Is this a fossilized turtle on Mars? No. Although resembling a large Earth tortoise, this is a layered rock outcrop on Mars that is estimated to span about 15 meters, making it…iotman (3)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 3576: The Statue of Liberty Nebula 🪐What's happening in the Statue of Liberty nebula? Bright stars and interesting molecules are forming and being liberated. The complex nebula resides in the star forming region…iotman (3)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Flying Saucer Crash Lands in Utah Desert 🪐A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert after being tracked by radar and chased by helicopters. The year was 2004, and no space aliens were involved.…iotman (3)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Shadow and Rainbow 🪐At sunset, an alignment of rainbow and mountain shadow was captured in this remarkable snapshot. The stunning view was recorded from a fire lookout on Smith Peak in the Plumas…iotman (3)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Dust Trail of Comet Tempel 2 🪐Comet 10P/Tempel 2 orbits the Sun once every 5.4 years. Currently visible in binoculars or small telescopes toward the constellation Capricornus, the periodic comet is captured…iotman (3)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 300: A Cosmic Gemstone with Stars and Gas Clouds 🪐This sparkling, colorful gemstone is a spiral galaxy, NGC 300. It is one of the closest spiral galaxies to Earth, only about 6 million light-years away. But does it really…iotman (3)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Sprites in the Tatacoa Desert 🪐Is there an angry Sith using force lightning in the Tatacoa Desert? This is not science fiction, but a red sprite with multiple streamers! Ordinary lightning occurs when…iotman (3)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Double Lobed Asteroid Torifune 🪐Why is this asteroid a double? Earlier this month the Japanese robotic spacecraft Hayabusa2 shot past asteroid 98943 Torifune and captured pictures. Although previous…iotman (3)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams 🪐What's happening to galaxy NGC 474? The multiple layers of emission appear strangely complex given the relatively featureless appearance of the elliptical galaxy in less deep…iotman (3)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 24: Sagittarius Star Cloud 🪐Unlike most entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog of deep sky objects, M24 is not a bright galaxy, star cluster, or nebula. It's a gap in nearby, obscuring interstellar…iotman (3)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Red Glow of the Cosmic Bat Nebula 🪐This Cosmic Bat wishes you a happy Summerween! This mid-year celebration of Halloween transcends hemispheres, even though summer in the Northern hemisphere is winter in the…iotman (3)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6188: Dragons of Ara 🪐Where can you find dragons fighting in the night sky? In the southern constellation of the Altar: Ara. The dragons are, of course, actually made of suggestively shaped gas and…iotman (3)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Dueling Bands over the Atacama Desert 🪐What are these two bands in the sky? The more commonly seen band is on the left and is the central band of our Milky Way galaxy. Our Sun orbits in the disk of this spiral…iotman (3)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Saturn's Iapetus: Painted Moon 🪐What has happened to Saturn's moon Iapetus? Vast sections of this strange world are dark as coal, while others are as bright as snow. To help better understand this unusually…iotman (3)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Pathfinder on Mars 🪐On July 4th, 1997, using its own array of fireworks, a parachute, and a cocoon of airbags, the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft bounced like a giant beach ball at least 15 times before…iotman (3)in #science • 24 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Three Galaxies in Pavo 🪐Some 190 million light-years away, far beyond the bright stars and nebulae of the Milky Way, these three galaxies are drawn together by gravity in a mesmerizing cosmic dance.…
