iotman (60)in #science • 13 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Shadow of a Martian Robot 🪐What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn't human? Then you might be the Opportunity rover exploring Mars.…iotman (60)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Twilight with Moon and Planets 🪐Only two days after the February New Moon's annular eclipse of the Sun, a slender lunar crescent poses above the…iotman (60)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: B93: A Dark Interstellar Ghost 🪐"A ghost in the Milky Way…” says Christian Bertincourt, the astrophotographer behind this striking image of Barnard 93…iotman (60)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: IC 2574: Coddington's Nebula 🪐Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful…iotman (60)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Orion's Cradle 🪐Cradled in red-glowing hydrogen gas, stars are being born in Orion. These stellar nurseries lie at the edge of the…iotman (60)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Tails of Comet Wierzchoś 🪐Some comets are regular guests of our solar neighborhood; others come by only once, never to return. We won’t have…iotman (60)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Unexplained Shocks Around a White Dwarf Star 🪐How is RXJ0528+2838 creating such shock waves? A recently discovered white dwarf star, the farther left of the two…iotman (60)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: To Fly Free in Space 🪐What would it be like to fly free in space? About 100 meters from the cargo bay of a space shuttle, Bruce McCandless…iotman (60)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Roses are Red 🪐Roses are red, nebulas are too, and this Valentine's gift is a stunning view! Pictured is a loving look at the Rosette…iotman (60)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 147 and NGC 185 🪐Dwarf galaxies NGC 147 (left) and NGC 185 stand side by side in this deep telescopic portrait. The two are…iotman (60)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Bay of Rainbows 🪐Dark, smooth regions that cover the Moon's familiar face are called by Latin names for oceans and seas. That naming…iotman (60)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Year of Sunspots 🪐How many sunspots can you see? The central image shows the many sunspots that occurred in 2025, month by month around…iotman (60)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: In Green Company: Aurora over Norway 🪐Raise your arms if you see an aurora. With those instructions, two nights went by with, well, clouds -- mostly. On the…iotman (60)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Miranda Revisited 🪐What is Miranda really like? Visually, old images from NASA's Voyager 2 have been recently combined and remastered to…iotman (60)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun 🪐An unusually active sunspot region is now crossing the Sun. The region, labelled AR 4366, is much larger than the…iotman (60)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Crescent Enceladus 🪐Peering from the shadows, the Saturn-facing hemisphere of tantalizing inner moon Enceladus poses in this Cassini…iotman (60)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A 🪐Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear…iotman (60)in #science • 19 days 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…iotman (60)in #science • 20 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…iotman (60)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Orion: The Running Man Nebula 🪐What part of Orion is this? Just north of the famous Orion Nebula is a picturesque star forming region in Orion's…
