PostsCommentsPayoutsiotman (5)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this…iotman (5)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this…iotman (5)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this…iotman (5)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this…iotman (5)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this…iotman (5)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this…iotman (5)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this…iotman (5)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this…iotman (5)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this…iotman (5)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6960: The Witch's Broom Nebula 🪐Ten thousand years ago, before the dawn of recorded human history, a new light would suddenly have appeared in the night sky and faded after a few weeks. Today we know this…iotman (5)in #science • 24 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet Lemmon Brightens 🪐Comet Lemmon is brightening and moving into morning northern skies. Besides Comet SWAN25B and Comet ATLAS, Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is now the third comet currently visible with…iotman (5)in #science • 25 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Two Camera Comets in One Sky 🪐It may look like these comets are racing, but they are not. Comets C/2025 K1 ATLAS (left) and C/2025 R2 SWAN (right) appeared near each other by chance last week in the featured…iotman (5)in #science • 26 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Leopard Spots on Martian Rocks 🪐What is creating these unusual spots? Light-colored spots on Martian rocks, each surrounded by a dark border, were discovered last year by NASA's Perseverance Rover currently…iotman (5)in #science • 27 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Rocket in the Sun 🪐On the morning of September 24 a rocket crosses the bright solar disk in this long range telescopic snapshot captured from Orlando, Florida. That's about 50 miles north of its…iotman (5)in #science • 29 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Saturn Opposite the Sun 🪐This year Saturn was at opposition on September 21, opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky. At its closest to Earth, Saturn was also at its brightest of the year, rising as the…iotman (5)in #science • last month🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: GW250114: Rotating Black Holes Collide 🪐It was the strongest gravitational wave signal yet measured -- what did it show? GW250114 was detected by both arms of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory…iotman (5)in #science • last month🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars 🪐How massive can a normal star be? Estimates made from distance, brightness and standard solar models had given one star in the open cluster Pismis 24 over 200 times the mass of…iotman (5)in #science • last month🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Equinox at Saturn 🪐On Saturn, the rings tell you the season. On Earth, today marks an equinox, the time when the Earth's equator tilts directly toward the Sun. Since Saturn's grand rings orbit…iotman (5)in #science • last month🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Equinox Sunset 🪐Does the Sun set in the same direction every day? No, the direction of sunset depends on the time of the year. Although the Sun always sets approximately toward the west, on an…iotman (5)in #science • last month🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Gibbous vs Crescent 🪐rly risers around planet Earth have enjoyed a shining crescent Moon near brilliant Venus, close to the eastern horizon in recent morning twilight skies. And yesterday, on…
