iotman (60)in #science • yesterday🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Perseids from Perseus 🪐This was a good year for the Perseids meteor shower. A key reason was the Moon was absent from lighting up Earth's…iotman (60)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Golden Corona Eclipse 🪐This total solar eclipse appeared not only poetically beautiful but scientifically interesting. Usually the solar…iotman (60)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Milky Way over Yellowstone 🪐The Milky Way was not created by an evaporating lake. The colorful pool of water, about 10 meters across, is known as…iotman (60)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Bright Perseids from Sweden 🪐Known for its bright and fast meteors, the annual Perseid Meteor Shower comes to planet Earth's skies from a radiant…iotman (60)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Total Solar Eclipse from Greenland 🪐On August 12, the Moon's shadow reached out to touch our fair planet. Beginning in the Arctic Ocean, it swept along a…iotman (60)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain 🪐On August 12th, 2026, the Moon totally eclipsed the Sun and cast its shadow across Siberia, Greenland, Iceland, Spain…iotman (60)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Perseids Over a little Planet 🪐It looks like a view from the Little Prince's planet. The featured image is a throwback to the 2024 Perseid meteor…iotman (60)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Six Moons of Saturn 🪐How many moons does Saturn have? While the total will likely continue to grow, as of June 2026 the ringed gas giant…iotman (60)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Three Galaxy Pairs 🪐ch of these pairs of galaxies is different. The two galaxies at the top are likely not interacting, at least…iotman (60)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Contemplating the Sun 🪐Have you contemplated your home star recently? Featured here, a Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon is…iotman (60)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Messier Moment for Tempel 2 🪐Which of these is not a comet? You guessed it - the one on the right is a globular star cluster. The diffuse greenish…iotman (60)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability 🪐What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show? Instability. To be clear, a certain kind of interactive process…iotman (60)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Spokes on Saturn's B Ring 🪐Don’t get spooked by Saturn’s ghostly spokes! Today we feature a nearly two-hour timelapse of Saturn and its rings…iotman (60)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 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 • 17 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 • 18 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 • 19 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 • 20 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 • 22 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 • 23 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…
