iotman (60)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M83: The Southern Pinwheel 🪐Beautiful and bright spiral galaxy M83 lies some twelve million light-years away, near the southeastern tip of the…iotman (60)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula 🪐What does this image look like to you? Many see a giraffe facing right, with neck stretched high and long legs…iotman (60)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole 🪐Why are Saturn’s poles geometric? Saturn’s North Pole has been known to be surrounded by a hexagonal (6 sides) cloud…iotman (60)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars 🪐The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger North…iotman (60)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Pluto in Enhanced Color 🪐Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System's most famous dwarf…iotman (60)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Chasing the Moon's Shadow 🪐Chasing the shadow of a New Moon, NASA’s WB-57F high altitude research aircraft took to the skies off the coast of…iotman (60)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola 🪐Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola, is the Hawaiian name given to this image of a pair of spiral galaxies locked in a…iotman (60)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Eclipse and the Stork 🪐How do animals react to a total solar eclipse? The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a…iotman (60)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Solar Eclipses and Culture 🪐Pretend you have never heard of a solar eclipse. The Sun’s behavior has been predictable your whole life. One day, you…iotman (60)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Plane Lunar Eclipse 🪐Did you need to be on the right side of this airplane to see this eclipse? No. Lunar eclipses are routinely seen from…iotman (60)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M74: A Grand Design Spiral 🪐If not the most grand, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe of about…iotman (60)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Eclipse Pair 🪐clipses tend to come in pairs. Twice a year, during an eclipse season that lasts about 34 days, Sun, Moon, and Earth…iotman (60)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Sky Turns Above Paranal 🪐At the latitude of ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, about 25 degrees south, Earth's rotation moves the planet's…iotman (60)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Colorful Aurora over Icelandic Waterfall 🪐What a sight to behold, when a night sky became filled with colors that appeared to rain over the Skógafoss waterfall…iotman (60)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: JWST Images The Lion's Head Nebula 🪐Are we looking at the future of our Sun? The James Webb Space Telescope captured today’s composite image of the Lion’s…iotman (60)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Earth's Shadow Visualized with Lunar Eclipses 🪐What’s creating this giant hole in space? This is not a black hole — it’s a shadow. It’s Earth’s shadow. Since at…iotman (60)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Mostly Perseids 🪐Recorded the night of August 12-13, images from four dedicated meteor-monitoring cameras at an astronomical…iotman (60)in #science • 25 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Elephant's Trunk in Cepheus 🪐Like an illustration in a galactic Just So Story, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula winds through the emission region and…iotman (60)in #science • 27 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Perseids from Perseus 🪐This was a good year for the Perseids meteor shower. A key reason was the Moon was absent from lighting up Earth's…iotman (60)in #science • 28 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Golden Corona Eclipse 🪐This total solar eclipse appeared not only poetically beautiful but scientifically interesting. Usually the solar…
