PostsCommentsPayoutsiotman (4)in #science • 4 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 • 5 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 • 6 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 • 3 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 • 2 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 • 7 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 • 14 hours 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…
