iotman (4)in #science • 17 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NASA Science 🪐To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 vide HD image: LINK 🛸 Copyright: No…iotman (4)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NASA Science 🪐What a cosmic coincidence! In today’s image, Mars joins the Beehive cluster (M44 or Praesepe) below an auroral curtain and above a horizon of happy little trees near Lansjärv…iotman (4)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NASA Science 🪐Have you ever seen a complete auroral oval? You can't see one from the ground because it makes too large a circle around one of Earth's magnetic poles. But spacecraft high above…iotman (4)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NASA Science 🪐A deep image of the Sombrero galaxy reveals surprises. M104 is named the Sombrero galaxy because, on shorter exposures, it looks like a hat. A key defining feature of this huge…iotman (4)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NASA Science 🪐Yes, but can your rainbow do this? After the remnants of Hurricane Florence passed over the Jersey Shore, New Jersey, USA in 2018, the Sun came out in one direction but something…iotman (4)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NASA Science 🪐Have you ever seen the full moon rise? This colorful image was photographed last weekend in Sicily, just outside the town of Nicosia, in Italy. It is a composite photograph that…iotman (4)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NASA Science 🪐Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 is found within the boundaries of the head strong constellation Aries. Some 100 million light-years beyond the stars and nebulae of our Milky Way…iotman (4)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Sh2-188: The Shrimp Nebula 🪐What causes the swirl in the Shrimp Nebula? Its high speed is likely. What is sure is that Sh2-188 is one of the larger planetary nebulas on the night sky, by angular size…iotman (4)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe 🪐What color is the universe? More precisely, if the entire sky were smeared out, what color would the final mix be? This whimsical question came up when trying to determine what…iotman (4)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Andromeda before Photoshop 🪐What does the Andromeda galaxy really look like? The featured image shows how our Milky Way Galaxy's closest major galactic neighbor really appears in a long exposure through…iotman (4)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way 🪐On August 15, this perseid meteor streaked through night skies over the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos at La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The bright and colorful meteor…iotman (4)in #science • 22 days 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 • 23 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 • 24 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 • 25 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 • 26 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 • 27 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 • 28 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 • 29 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 • last month🌌 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…
