iotman (3)in #science • 9 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 3660 and Burçin's Galaxy 🪐The upper galaxy might be more photogenic, but the lower galaxy is more unusual. The galaxy up top is NGC 3660, a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy in that it…iotman (3)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Thackeray's Globules 🪐What are these strange space globs? Situated in rich star fields and glowing hydrogen gas, these opaque clouds of interstellar dust and gas are so large they might be able to…iotman (3)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 2 🪐After the Crab Nebula, this giant star cluster is the second entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier's famous list of things that are not comets. M2 is one of the…iotman (3)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Nebulous Realm of WR 134 🪐This cosmic snapshot covers a field of view over twice as wide as the full Moon within the boundaries of the high-flying constellation Cygnus. Made using astronomical narrowband…iotman (3)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Collision of Galaxy Clusters 🪐This big beautiful spiral shines in X-ray light. It is about 20 times larger than our Galaxy. It belongs to Abell 2029, a galaxy cluster one billion light-years away. (To see…iotman (3)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Dark Wolf Nebula 🪐A dark wolf lies in gum. No, this isn’t a riddle! Today's image features the Dark Wolf Nebula (Sandqvist–Lindroos 17), a spooky dust cloud embedded within the Gum 55 (RCW 113)…iotman (3)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 2170: The Angel Nebula 🪐Is this a painting or a photograph? In this celestial abstract art composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC 2170, also known as the Angel Nebula, shines just above the…iotman (3)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Unraveling NGC 3169 🪐Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 looks to be unraveling like a ball of cosmic yarn. It lies some 70 million light-years away, south of bright star Regulus toward the faint constellation…iotman (3)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1300: Barred Spiral Galaxy 🪐Across the center of this spiral galaxy is a bar. And at the center of this bar is smaller spiral. And at the center of that spiral is a supermassive black hole. This all…iotman (3)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Aurora Slathers Up the Sky 🪐Like salsa verde on your favorite burrito, a green aurora slathers up the sky in this 2017 June 25 snapshot from the International Space Station. About 400 kilometers (250 miles)…iotman (3)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: R3 PanSTARRS: An Orion Comet 🪐Comet R3 PanSTARRS might be best remembered as an Orion comet. A key reason is because Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) was near its most spectacular -- in terms of tail visibility…iotman (3)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier Catalog at Uniform Scale 🪐What are some of the most interesting astronomical objects you can see in the night sky? Armed with a good pair of binoculars or a small telescope, if you live in the Northern…iotman (3)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 188: Old Cluster in the New General Catalog 🪐The New General Catalog of star clusters and nebulae really isn't so new. In fact, it was published in 1888 - an effort by J. L. E. Dreyer to consolidate the work of astronomers…iotman (3)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet R3 PanSTARRS and Orion 🪐Orion never had a sword like this. As Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) heads out of the inner Solar System, it is putting on quite a show for long exposure cameras. Currently seen…iotman (3)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier Craters in Stereo 🪐Many bright nebulae and star clusters in planet Earth's sky are associated with the name of astronomer Charles Messier from his famous 18th century catalog. His name is also…iotman (3)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet R3 PanSTARRS Before Rigel 🪐Which way is Comet R3 PanSTARRS going? Not towards the star at the top of the image, because that is Rigel, which, being far in the background, is unrelated to the comet. Not…iotman (3)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Retrograde Dance of Saturn and Neptune 🪐What does it mean for Saturn and Neptune to be in retrograde? Featured is a composite of images taken over 34 nights from May 2025 to February 2026 tracing Saturn (brighter…iotman (3)in #science • 24 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Trifid Pillars and Jets 🪐Dust pillars are like interstellar mountains. They survive because they are more dense than their surroundings, but they are slowly being eroded away by a hostile environment.…iotman (3)in #science • 25 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Seeing Titan 🪐Shrouded in a thick atmosphere, the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is really hard to see. Small particles suspended in Titan's upper atmosphere cause an almost…iotman (3)in #science • 26 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Markarian's Chain 🪐Near the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, a string of galaxies known as Markarian's Chain stretches across this telescopic field of view. Anchored in the frame at bottom right…
