PostsCommentsPayoutsiotman (4)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Solstice Sun Tattoo 🪐The word solstice is from the Latin for Sun and to pause or stand still. And in the days surrounding a solstice the Sun's annual north-south drift in planet Earth's sky does slow…iotman (4)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Long Shadows of the Montes Caucasus 🪐When the Moon is at its first quarter phase, the Sun rises along the Montes Caucasus as seen from the lunar surface. The lunar mountain range casts the magnificent, spire-like…iotman (4)in #science • 19 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree 🪐A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, this beautiful but complex arrangement of interstellar gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant in the faint but fanciful…iotman (4)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Mystery: Little Red Dots in the Early Universe 🪐What are these little red dots (LRDs)? Nobody knows. Discovered only last year, hundreds of LRDs have now been found by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe.…iotman (4)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge 🪐Yesterday the Sun reached its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in…
