iotman (60)in #science • 2 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 • 4 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 • 5 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 • 6 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 • 7 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 • 8 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 • 9 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 • 12 days ago🌌 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 • 13 days ago🌌 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 • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Horsehead Nebula 🪐Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, this dusty interstellar molecular cloud has by chance assumed an immediately…iotman (60)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Heart of the Soul Nebula 🪐This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula. The dark and brooding dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of…iotman (60)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Sun and Its Missing Colors 🪐It is still not known why the Sun's light is missing some colors. Here are all the visible colors of the Sun…iotman (60)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater 🪐Fifty three years ago, in December of 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75…iotman (60)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Bipolar Jets of KX Andromedae 🪐Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae, these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long. Recently…iotman (60)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxies in the Furnace 🪐An example of violence on a cosmic scale, enormous elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 lies about 75 million light-years away…iotman (60)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Visualization: Near a Black Hole and Disk 🪐What would it look like to plunge into a monster black hole? This image from a supercomputer visualization shows the…iotman (60)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M77: Spiral Galaxy with an Active Center 🪐What's happening in the center of nearby spiral galaxy M77? The face-on galaxy lies a mere 47 million light-years away…iotman (60)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 3I ATLAS: Tails of an Interstellar Comet 🪐How typical is our Solar System? Studying 3I/ATLAS, a comet just passing through, is providing clues. Confirmed…iotman (60)in #science • 24 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Surface of Titan from Huygens 🪐If you could stand on Titan -- what would you see? The featured color view from Titan gazes across an unfamiliar and…iotman (60)in #science • 25 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Moon Games 🪐This is not a screen from a video game. Nestled below the tree-line, the small mountain church does look like it might…
