iotman (60)in #science • 8 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy 🪐The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, Messier 33. Its popular…iotman (60)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula 🪐This treasure chest is full of stars. The featured image was obtained with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and…iotman (60)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Webb's View of M64 🪐Sometimes where Hubble finds darkness, Webb sees light. An example is today’s composite images of Messier 64 (M64), a…iotman (60)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus 🪐There was something behind the clouds. Upon close inspection, it was the Moon, which was hard to see yesterday around…iotman (60)in #science • 8 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 • 9 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 • 11 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 • 12 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 • 13 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 • 14 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 • 15 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 • 16 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 • 17 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 • 18 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 • 20 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 • 21 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 • 22 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 • 23 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 • 24 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 • 25 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…
