iotman (3)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Saturn at Night 🪐Telescopic views of Saturn and its beautiful rings often make it the star of star parties. But this stunning view of the outer gas gaint planet's rings and night side just isn't…iotman (3)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Eagle Nebula Pillars in Infrared from Hubble 🪐Newborn stars are forming in the Eagle Nebula. They are gravitationally contracting in pillars of dense gas and dust. The intense radiation of these newly-formed bright stars…iotman (3)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Supermoon Versus Micromoon 🪐What is so micro about tonight's blue micromoon? Just after sunset, a full moon will appear slightly smaller and dimmer than usual. The reason is that the Moon's fully…iotman (3)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 104 🪐A gorgeous spiral galaxy, Messier 104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring dust lanes. Seen in silhouette against an extensive central…iotman (3)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1514: The Crystal Ball Nebula 🪐What do you see in this crystal ball? The featured image shows NGC 1514, known as the Crystal Ball Nebula, observed by the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea, in Hawai'i. NGC…iotman (3)in #science • 21 days 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 • 22 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 • 24 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 • 25 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 • 26 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 • 27 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 • 28 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 • 29 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 • last month🌌 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 • last month🌌 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 • last month🌌 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 • last month🌌 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 • last month🌌 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 • last month🌌 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 • last month🌌 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…
