iotman (59)in #science • 13 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Moon Near the Edge 🪐Most of us watch the Moon at night. But the Moon spends nearly as many daylight hours above our horizon, though in…iotman (59)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The ISS Meets Venus 🪐Made with a telescope shaded from bright sunlight by an umbrella, on April 5 a well-planned video captured a crescent…iotman (59)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 38 Hours with the M81 Group 🪐From a garden on planet Earth, 38 hours of exposure with a camera and small telescope produced this cosmic photo of…iotman (59)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: HH 49: Interstellar Jet from Webb 🪐What's at the tip of this interstellar jet? First let's consider the jet: it is being expelled by a star system just…iotman (59)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Moon Visits Sister Stars 🪐Sometimes, the Moon visits the Pleiades. Technically, this means that the orbit of our Moon takes it directly in front…iotman (59)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 4414: A Flocculent Spiral Galaxy 🪐How much mass do flocculent spirals hide? The featured image of flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was taken with the…iotman (59)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Moonquakes Surprisingly Common 🪐Why are there so many moonquakes? Analyses of seismometers left on the moon during the Apollo moon landings reveal a…iotman (59)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Gargoyles' Eclipse 🪐In dramatic silhouette against a cloudy daytime sky over Paris, France, gargoyles cast their monstrous gaze outward…iotman (59)in #science • 9 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 (59)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Da Vinci Glow 🪐A 26 hour old Moon poses behind the craggy outline of the Italian Dolomites in this twilight mountain and skyscape.…iotman (59)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Jupiter and Ring in Infrared from Webb 🪐Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's main ring was discovered in 1979 by NASA's passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but…iotman (59)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Partial Solar Eclipse over Iceland 🪐What if the Sun and Moon rose together? That happened yesterday over some northern parts of planet Earth as a partial…iotman (59)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Stereo Helene 🪐Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to Helene, small, icy moon of Saturn. Appropriately named, Helene is a…iotman (59)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Lunar Dust and Duct Tape 🪐Why is the Moon so dusty? On Earth, rocks are weathered by wind and water, creating soil and sand. On the Moon, eons…iotman (59)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 81 🪐One of the brightest galaxies in planet Earth's sky is similar in size to our Milky Way Galaxy: big, beautiful Messier…iotman (59)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Star Formation in the Pacman Nebula 🪐You'd think the Pacman Nebula would be eating stars, but actually it is forming them. Within the nebula, a cluster's…iotman (59)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Blue Banded Blood Moon 🪐What causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see.…iotman (59)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Ancient Ogunquit Beach on Mars 🪐This was once a beach -- on ancient Mars. The featured 360-degree panorama, horizontally compressed, was taken in 2017…iotman (59)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: SuperCam Target on Ma'az 🪐What's the sound of one laser zapping? There's no need to consult a Zen master to find out, just listen to the first…iotman (59)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Leo Trio 🪐This popular group leaps into the early evening sky around the March equinox and the northern hemisphere spring.…
