iotman (60)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NanoSail-D2 🪐In 2011, on January 20, NASA's NanoSail-D2 unfurled a very thin and very reflective 10 square meter sail becoming the…iotman (60)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Auroral Corona 🪐Cycle 25 solar maximum made 2025 a great year for aurora borealis (or aurora australis) on planet Earth. And the high…iotman (60)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: HH-222: The Waterfall Nebula 🪐What created the Waterfall Nebula? The origin is still being researched. The structure, officially designated…iotman (60)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: An Artificial Comet 🪐Yes, but can your comet tail do this? No, and what you are seeing is not the tail of a comet. The picture features a…iotman (60)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M1: The Crab Nebula 🪐This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova seen in 1054 AD, is…iotman (60)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud 🪐Jewels don't shine this bright -- only stars do. And almost every spot in this jewel-box of an image from the Hubble…iotman (60)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Apollo 17's Moonship 🪐Awkward and angular looking, Apollo 17's lunar module Challenger was designed for flight in the near vacuum of space.…iotman (60)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 3I/ATLAS Flyby 🪐Attention grabbing interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS made its not-so-close flyby of our fair planet on December 19 at a…iotman (60)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree 🪐A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264, this beautiful but complex arrangement of interstellar gas and dust is…iotman (60)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Mystery: Little Red Dots in the Early Universe 🪐What are these little red dots (LRDs)? Nobody knows. Discovered only last year, hundreds of LRDs have now been found…iotman (60)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge 🪐Yesterday the Sun reached its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, many cultures mark…iotman (60)in #science • 24 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Solstice Sun Tattoo 🪐The word solstice is from the Latin for Sun and to pause or stand still. And in the days surrounding a solstice the…iotman (60)in #science • 25 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Long Shadows of the Montes Caucasus 🪐When the Moon is at its first quarter phase, the Sun rises along the Montes Caucasus as seen from the lunar surface.…iotman (60)in #science • 26 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Jupiter and the Meteors from Gemini 🪐Jupiter, the Solar System's ruling gas giant, is the brightest celestial beacon at the center of this composite night…iotman (60)in #science • 27 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: W5: The Soul Nebula 🪐Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of Aethopia. More specifically, a large star forming region called the Soul…iotman (60)in #science • 28 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Andromeda and Sprites over Australia 🪐What’s happening over that tree? Two very different things. On the left is the Andromeda galaxy, an object that is…iotman (60)in #science • 29 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Gemini Meteors over Snow Capped Mountains 🪐Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation…iotman (60)in #science • last month🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Northern Fox Fires 🪐In a Finnish myth, when an arctic fox runs so fast that its bushy tail brushes the mountains, flaming sparks are cast…iotman (60)in #science • last month🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxies in the River 🪐Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy engages in a sort of galactic cannibalism, absorbing…iotman (60)in #science • last month🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Horsehead Nebula 🪐Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, this dusty interstellar molecular cloud has by chance assumed an immediately…
