PostsCommentsPayoutsiotman (3)in #science • 16 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Spiral Galaxy NGC 1512: Wide Field 🪐Most galaxies don't have any rings -- why does this galaxy have three? To begin, a ring that's near NGC 1512's center -- and so hard to see here -- is the nuclear ring which…iotman (3)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Spider Planetary Nebula from Webb 🪐Oh what a tangled web a planetary nebula can weave. The Red Spider Planetary Nebula shows the complex structure that can result when a normal star ejects its outer gases and…iotman (3)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galle: Happy Face Crater on Mars 🪐Mars has put on a happy face. The Martian crater Galle is famous because it has internal markings that make it look like a face that is both smiling and winking. These markings…iotman (3)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Artemis I: Flight Day 13 🪐On flight day 13 (November 28, 2022) of the Artemis 1 mission, the Orion spacecraft reached its maximum distance from Earth. At over 430,000 kilometers from Earth, its distant…iotman (3)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus 🪐NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant…iotman (3)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans 🪐Distorted galaxy NGC 2442 can be found in the southern constellation of the flying fish, (Piscis) Volans. Located about 50 million light-years away, the galaxy's two spiral arms…iotman (3)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Orion's Treasures over Snowy Mountains 🪐Rising over a frozen valley in the Tatra Mountains, the familiar stars and nebulas of Orion dominate this wide-field nightscape. The featured deep photo was taken in southern…iotman (3)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 55: A Galaxy of Nebulas 🪐Can you see nebulas in other galaxies? Yes, some nebulas shine brightly enough -- if you know how to look. Clouds of hydrogen and oxygen emit light at very specific colors, and…iotman (3)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars 🪐This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, whose names are derived from the Greek for Fear and Panic. These…iotman (3)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Earthset from Orion 🪐ght billion people are about to disappear in this snapshot from space taken on 2022 November 21. On the sixth day of the Artemis I mission, their home world is setting behind the…iotman (3)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Planetary Nebula Abell 7 🪐Very faint planetary nebula Abell 7 is about 1,800 light-years distant. It lies just south of Orion in planet Earth's skies toward the constellation Lepus, The Hare. Posing with…iotman (3)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion 🪐The silhouette of an intriguing dark nebula inhabits this cosmic scene. Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 appears against a faint background of glowing hydrogen gas only visible in…iotman (3)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb 🪐A mere 56 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is an enormous barred spiral galaxy about 200,000 light-years in diameter. That's twice…iotman (3)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Io in True Color 🪐The strangest moon in the Solar System is bright yellow. The featured picture, an attempt to show how Io would appear in the "true colors" perceptible to the average human eye…iotman (3)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: CTB 1: The Medulla Nebula 🪐What powers this unusual nebula? CTB 1 is the expanding gas shell that was left when a massive star toward the constellation of Cassiopeia exploded about 10,000 years ago. The…iotman (3)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Jupiter from the Webb Space Telescope 🪐This infrared view of Jupiter by Webb is illuminating. High-resolution infrared images of Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) reveal, for example, differences…iotman (3)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Apollo 14: A View from Antares 🪐Apollo 14's Lunar Module Antares landed on the Moon on February 5, 1971. Toward the end of the stay astronaut Ed Mitchell snapped a series of photos of the lunar surface while…iotman (3)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula 🪐These cosmic clouds have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile starfields of the constellation Cepheus. Called the Iris Nebula, NGC 7023 is not the only nebula to evoke…iotman (3)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Plato and the Lunar Alps 🪐The dark-floored, 95 kilometer wide crater Plato and sunlit peaks of the lunar Alps (Montes Alpes) are highlighted in this this sharp telescopic snapshot of the Moon's surface.…iotman (3)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy 🪐The Whirlpool Galaxy is a classic spiral galaxy. At only 30 million light years distant and fully 60 thousand light years across, M51, also known as NGC 5194, is one of the…
