iotman (60)in #science • 20 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Caught in the Web: Visualization of a Black Hole Merger in the Tarantula Nebula 🪐How can we see what is invisible? Black holes are not easy to see in the dark cosmic night, but astronomers can find…iotman (60)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Liftoff! Returning to the Moon 🪐We are one small step closer to returning to the Moon. A new chapter in human exploration began yesterday when NASA's…iotman (60)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Claw and Bubble Nebulae 🪐What unexpected things do you see when you look up at the night sky? Today’s image resembles an abstract painting…iotman (60)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Uranus's Largest Moon: Titania 🪐Titania's tortured terrain is a mix of canyons, cliffs, and craters. NASA's interplanetary robot spacecraft Voyager 2…iotman (60)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Peculiar Elliptical Galaxy Centaurus A 🪐What's happened to the center of this galaxy? Dramatic dust lanes run across the center of unusual elliptical galaxy…iotman (60)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Message from Earth 🪐What are these Earthlings trying to tell us? The featured message was broadcast from Earth towards the globular star…iotman (60)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Robert Goddard and Nell 🪐Robert H. Goddard, considered the father of modern rocketry, was born in Worcester Massachusetts in 1882. As a 16 year…iotman (60)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Hickson 44 in Leo 🪐Scanning the skies for galaxies, Canadian astronomer Paul Hickson and colleagues identified some 100 compact groups of…iotman (60)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Black Holes and Neutron Stars: 218 Mergers and Counting 🪐What is the sound of two black holes merging in deep space? Sound waves don't propagate in vacuum, but gravitational…iotman (60)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Guardians of Rapa Nui beneath the Milky Way 🪐In the words of today's astrophotographer, Rositsa Dimitrova, "What have these silent sentinels watched pass across…iotman (60)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Light Pillars and Orion over Mohe 🪐What's happening at the end of that street? Pictured here are not auroras but light pillars, a phenomenon typically…iotman (60)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxies in the River: NGC 1300 and NGC 1297 🪐Spiral NGC 1300 and elliptical NGC 1297 are galaxies that lie on the banks of the southern constellation Eridanus (The…iotman (60)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Spring Equinox at Teide Observatory 🪐The defining astronomical moment of the equinox today is at 14:46 UTC (March 20). That's when the Sun crosses the…iotman (60)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Launch Plume: SpaceX Jellyfish 🪐ven if you live with your head in the clouds, you won’t find a jellyfish like this one very often. The featured image…iotman (60)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Cygnus and the Solitary Tree 🪐A lone tree stands in a quiet meadow in Guadalajara, Spain, silhouetted against the Cygnus region rising above like…iotman (60)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Tadpoles of IC 410 🪐This telescopic close-up shows off the central regions of otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410, captured under…iotman (60)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Galaxy 🪐If not perfect, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe containing billions…iotman (60)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Equinox at the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent 🪐To see the feathered serpent descend the Mayan pyramid requires exquisite timing. You must visit El Castillo -- in…iotman (60)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Year for K2-315b 🪐Want to visit a planet that has 3.14 days in a year? Then plan a trip to K2-315b, an earth-sized planet orbiting…iotman (60)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Toolondo Totality Trails 🪐In this composited night skyscape, stacked exposures trace graceful star trails above Lake Toolondo, Victoria…
