iotman (3)in #science • 5 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Year for K2-315b 🪐Want to visit a planet that has 3.14 days in a year? Then plan a trip to K2-315b, an earth-sized planet orbiting around a cool, red, M dwarf star about once every 3.14 days. The…iotman (3)in #science • yesterday🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Toolondo Totality Trails 🪐In this composited night skyscape, stacked exposures trace graceful star trails above Lake Toolondo, Victoria, Australia, planet Earth. Captured while the lunar eclipse of March…iotman (3)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: CG 4: The Globule and the Galaxy 🪐Is this a cosmic monster ready to devour an unsuspecting galaxy? Thankfully, that is not the case. The red “monster” shown in the featured image is Cometary Globule CG 4, 1,300…iotman (3)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Sky Glows over Paranal Observatory 🪐Are lasers from giant telescopes being used to defend the Earth? No. Lasers shot from telescopes are now commonly used to help increase the accuracy of astronomical…iotman (3)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Cranium Nebula from the Webb Telescope 🪐What's going on inside the head of this nebula? Dubbed the Exposed Cranium Nebula for its similarity to the human brain, what created the nebula remains a mystery. One thought…iotman (3)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Aurora Tree 🪐Yes, but can your tree do this? Pictured is a visual coincidence between the dark branches of a nearby tree and bright glow of a distant aurora. The beauty of the aurora --…iotman (3)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Two Eclipses of Saros 133 🪐Centered on maximum eclipse, these two total lunar eclipse sequences look almost identical. Yet the one shown on top is composed of images recorded in February 2008, while at the…iotman (3)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Astrosphere of HD 61005 🪐Do young stars blow bubbles? The larger view shows a stellar field observed with the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, and the inset highlights HD 61005, a star…iotman (3)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Total Lunar Eclipse over Tsé Bit'a'í 🪐rlier this week, Earth’s shadow swept across the full Moon in the year’s only total lunar eclipse. This stunning sequence combines images showing the Moon’s path across the night…iotman (3)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula 🪐What’s looking back at you isn’t a cosmic eye, but Shapley 1, a beautifully symmetric planetary nebula. Shapley 1, also known as the Fine Ring Nebula or PLN 329+2.1, bejewels…iotman (3)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Dusty Surroundings of Orion and the Pleiades 🪐How well do you know the night sky? OK, but how well can you identify famous sky objects in a very deep image? Either way, here is a test: see if you can find some well-known…iotman (3)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Lunar Occultation of Mercury 🪐Fans of the western sky after sunset have lately enjoyed this month's remarkable array of bright planets. Witnessed from some locations, on February 18 planet Mercury even…iotman (3)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Sharpless 249 and the Jellyfish Nebula 🪐Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring telescopic field of view. Floating in the interstellar sea, the nebula is anchored right and left by…iotman (3)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Egg Nebula from the Hubble Telescope 🪐ver wonder what it would look like to crack open the Sun? The Egg Nebula, a dying Sun-like star, can unscramble this question. Pictured is a combination of several visible and…iotman (3)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Planet Parade over Sydney Opera House 🪐Look up this week and see a whole bunch of planets. Just after sunset, looking west (mostly), planets Mercury, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter will all be visible to the unaided eye…iotman (3)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster 🪐Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it as large and clear as this. Perhaps the most famous star cluster on the sky, the…iotman (3)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Shadow of a Martian Robot 🪐What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn't human? Then you might be the Opportunity rover exploring Mars. Opportunity explored the Red Planet from 2004 to 2018, finding…iotman (3)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Twilight with Moon and Planets 🪐Only two days after the February New Moon's annular eclipse of the Sun, a slender lunar crescent poses above the western horizon after sunset in this wintry twilight skyscape.…iotman (3)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: IC 2574: Coddington's Nebula 🪐Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small, irregular galaxies form…iotman (3)in #science • 24 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Orion's Cradle 🪐Cradled in red-glowing hydrogen gas, stars are being born in Orion. These stellar nurseries lie at the edge of the giant Orion molecular cloud complex, some 1,500 light-years…
