PostsCommentsPayoutsiotman (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 • 18 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 • 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)…
