iotman (4)in #science • 22 hours 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 light-years in diameter. Also known as NGC 5139, at a distance of…iotman (4)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Ghosts of Five Supernovas 🪐The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image. It was acquired at Oukaïmeden Observatory in Morocco with approximately 200 hours of observations and shows a…iotman (4)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A New Lunar Crater: McGetchin 🪐A once-in-a-lifetime crater has appeared on the Moon! A comet or asteroid roughly the size of a humpback whale (approximately 10-20 meters, 30-60 feet) crashed into the Moon…iotman (4)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun 🪐This shot captured an unexpected silhouette. Which is it? It isn't the sunspots, the small dark regions caused by concentrated magnetic fields visible around the Sun's bright…iotman (4)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Cocoon Nebula Wide Field 🪐When does a nebula look like a comet? In this crowded starfield covering over two degrees within the high-flying constellation of the Swan (Cygnus), the eye is drawn to the…iotman (4)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Analemma over the Callanish Stones 🪐If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun's position change? A visual answer to that question is an analemma, a…iotman (4)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Zodiacal Night 🪐Also known as the false dawn, a luminous band of zodiacal light is captured in this dark night skyscape. The serene view was recorded just before the beginning of astronomical…iotman (4)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy 🪐The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, Messier 33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum…iotman (4)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula 🪐This treasure chest is full of stars. The featured image was obtained with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and shows a dust pilar in the Carina Nebula inside our Galaxy…iotman (4)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Webb's View of M64 🪐Sometimes where Hubble finds darkness, Webb sees light. An example is today’s composite images of Messier 64 (M64), a nearby spiral galaxy of many names. The dark band of dust…iotman (4)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus 🪐There was something behind the clouds. Upon close inspection, it was the Moon, which was hard to see yesterday around noon above the small village of Cessy, France. But soon…iotman (4)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M83: The Southern Pinwheel 🪐Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the very long constellation Hydra. Prominent spiral arms traced by…iotman (4)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula 🪐What does this image look like to you? Many see a giraffe facing right, with neck stretched high and long legs mid-stride (but some may see a squirrel instead). The featured…iotman (4)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole 🪐Why are Saturn’s poles geometric? Saturn’s North Pole has been known to be surrounded by a hexagonal (6 sides) cloud since discovery in 1987 in data taken by NASA’s Voyager…iotman (4)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars 🪐The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger North America Nebula by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust.…iotman (4)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Pluto in Enhanced Color 🪐Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System's most famous dwarf planet, taken by the robotic New Horizons spacecraft during…iotman (4)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Chasing the Moon's Shadow 🪐Chasing the shadow of a New Moon, NASA’s WB-57F high altitude research aircraft took to the skies off the coast of Iceland on August 12 to observe a total solar eclipse. At…iotman (4)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola 🪐Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola, is the Hawaiian name given to this image of a pair of spiral galaxies locked in a mutual gravitational embrace. Some 200 million light-years…iotman (4)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Eclipse and the Stork 🪐How do animals react to a total solar eclipse? The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the recent total solar eclipse. If you…iotman (4)in #science • 24 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Solar Eclipses and Culture 🪐Pretend you have never heard of a solar eclipse. The Sun’s behavior has been predictable your whole life. One day, you witness the sky transform as it does in today’s spliced…
