iotman (60)in #science • 13 hours 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 • 2 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…iotman (60)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galle: Happy Face Crater on Mars 🪐Mars has put on a happy face. The Martian crater Galle is famous because it has internal markings that make it look…iotman (60)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Artemis I: Flight Day 13 🪐On flight day 13 (November 28, 2022) of the Artemis 1 mission, the Orion spacecraft reached its maximum distance from…iotman (60)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus 🪐NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight…iotman (60)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 2442: Galaxy in Volans 🪐Distorted galaxy NGC 2442 can be found in the southern constellation of the flying fish, (Piscis) Volans. Located…iotman (60)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M78: Reflecting Blue in a Sea of Red 🪐In the vast Orion Molecular Cloud complex, several bright blue nebulas are particularly apparent. Pictured here in…iotman (60)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Orion's Treasures over Snowy Mountains 🪐Rising over a frozen valley in the Tatra Mountains, the familiar stars and nebulas of Orion dominate this wide-field…iotman (60)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 55: A Galaxy of Nebulas 🪐Can you see nebulas in other galaxies? Yes, some nebulas shine brightly enough -- if you know how to look. Clouds of…iotman (60)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars 🪐This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, whose…iotman (60)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Earthset from Orion 🪐ght billion people are about to disappear in this snapshot from space taken on 2022 November 21. On the sixth day of…iotman (60)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Planetary Nebula Abell 7 🪐Very faint planetary nebula Abell 7 is about 1,800 light-years distant. It lies just south of Orion in planet Earth's…iotman (60)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: LDN 1622: Dark Nebula in Orion 🪐The silhouette of an intriguing dark nebula inhabits this cosmic scene. Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 appears against…iotman (60)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb 🪐A mere 56 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is an enormous barred spiral…iotman (60)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Io in True Color 🪐The strangest moon in the Solar System is bright yellow. The featured picture, an attempt to show how Io would appear…iotman (60)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: CTB 1: The Medulla Nebula 🪐What powers this unusual nebula? CTB 1 is the expanding gas shell that was left when a massive star toward the…iotman (60)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Jupiter from the Webb Space Telescope 🪐This infrared view of Jupiter by Webb is illuminating. High-resolution infrared images of Jupiter from the James Webb…iotman (60)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Apollo 14: A View from Antares 🪐Apollo 14's Lunar Module Antares landed on the Moon on February 5, 1971. Toward the end of the stay astronaut Ed…iotman (60)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula 🪐These cosmic clouds have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile starfields of the constellation Cepheus.…iotman (60)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Plato and the Lunar Alps 🪐The dark-floored, 95 kilometer wide crater Plato and sunlit peaks of the lunar Alps (Montes Alpes) are highlighted in…
