PostsCommentsPayoutsiotman (3)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Liftoff! Returning to the Moon 🪐We are one small step closer to returning to the Moon. A new chapter in human exploration began yesterday when NASA's Artemis II launched aboard the Space Launch System (SLS)…iotman (3)in #science • 9 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 3310: A Starburst Spiral Galaxy 🪐The party is still going on in spiral galaxy NGC 3310. Roughly 100 million years ago, NGC 3310 likely collided with a smaller galaxy causing the large spiral galaxy to light up…iotman (3)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Hello World 🪐From pole to pole our fair planet is captured in this snapshot from space, an evocative image from a window of the Orion spacecraft Integrity. From the spacecraft's perspective…iotman (3)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Caught in the Web: Visualization of a Black Hole Merger in the Tarantula Nebula 🪐How can we see what is invisible? Black holes are not easy to see in the dark cosmic night, but astronomers can find them by analyzing their gravitational effects on matter…iotman (3)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Uranus's Largest Moon: Titania 🪐Titania's tortured terrain is a mix of canyons, cliffs, and craters. NASA's interplanetary robot spacecraft Voyager 2 passed the largest moon of Uranus in 1986 and took the…iotman (3)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Peculiar Elliptical Galaxy Centaurus A 🪐What's happened to the center of this galaxy? Dramatic dust lanes run across the center of unusual elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. These dust lanes are so thick they almost…
