iotman (60)in #science • yesterday🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Vaporizing Meteor Photobombs the Lacerta Nebula 🪐What's happening to this meteor? This bright meteor streak appeared and disappeared quickly during a long exposure of…iotman (60)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia 🪐What's happening to this cloud? Ice crystals in a distant cirrus cloud are acting like little floating prisms. Known…iotman (60)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Buck Moon and Belt of Venus 🪐The Buck Moon is a traditional name for the full moon of July. In this colorful Adriatic sea and skyscape captured on…iotman (60)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 4372 and the Dark Doodad 🪐The Dark Doodad Nebula drifts through southern skies, a tantalizing target for binoculars toward the small…iotman (60)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Sun through Wildfire Smoke 🪐This could be the view from an exoplanet orbiting around a red dwarf star, but it is our own Sun. This image was…iotman (60)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Barnards Loop over Twin Volcanoes 🪐What's connecting these two volcanoes? In ancient folklore, the two volcanoes, Parinacota (left) and Pomerape (right)…iotman (60)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula 🪐What created this huge space bubble? Blown by the wind from a star, this tantalizing, head-like apparition is…iotman (60)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Tranquility and Serenity 🪐The Seas of Tranquility and Serenity are calm today. They're calm most every day though, since they are actually lunar…iotman (60)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: RCW 86: Historical Supernova Remnant 🪐In 185 AD, Chinese astronomers recorded the appearance of a new star in the Nanmen asterism. That part of the sky is…iotman (60)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Large Magellanic Cloud 🪐Have you ever seen another galaxy with your own eyes? The featured image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one…iotman (60)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud and the Chandelier Cluster 🪐The Southern Crown (Corona Australis) dazzles with young and ancient celestial jewels. The Corona Australis Cloud is a…iotman (60)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Turtle Rock on Mars 🪐Is this a fossilized turtle on Mars? No. Although resembling a large Earth tortoise, this is a layered rock outcrop…iotman (60)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 3576: The Statue of Liberty Nebula 🪐What's happening in the Statue of Liberty nebula? Bright stars and interesting molecules are forming and being…iotman (60)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Flying Saucer Crash Lands in Utah Desert 🪐A flying saucer from outer space crash-landed in the Utah desert after being tracked by radar and chased by…iotman (60)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Shadow and Rainbow 🪐At sunset, an alignment of rainbow and mountain shadow was captured in this remarkable snapshot. The stunning view was…iotman (60)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Dust Trail of Comet Tempel 2 🪐Comet 10P/Tempel 2 orbits the Sun once every 5.4 years. Currently visible in binoculars or small telescopes toward the…iotman (60)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 300: A Cosmic Gemstone with Stars and Gas Clouds 🪐This sparkling, colorful gemstone is a spiral galaxy, NGC 300. It is one of the closest spiral galaxies to Earth…iotman (60)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Sprites in the Tatacoa Desert 🪐Is there an angry Sith using force lightning in the Tatacoa Desert? This is not science fiction, but a red sprite with…iotman (60)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Double Lobed Asteroid Torifune 🪐Why is this asteroid a double? Earlier this month the Japanese robotic spacecraft Hayabusa2 shot past asteroid 98943…iotman (60)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxy NGC 474: Shells and Star Streams 🪐What's happening to galaxy NGC 474? The multiple layers of emission appear strangely complex given the relatively…
