iotman (59)in #science • 7 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: IC 418: The Spirograph Nebula 🪐What is creating the strange texture of IC 418? Dubbed the Spirograph Nebula for its resemblance to drawings from a…iotman (59)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Asteroid Donaldjohanson 🪐Main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson is about 8 kilometers long and 3.5 kilometers across. On April 20, this sharp…iotman (59)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6164: A Dragon's Egg 🪐Beautiful emission nebula NGC 6164 was created by a rare, hot, luminous O-type star, some 40 times as massive as the…iotman (59)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: An Almost Everything Sky 🪐This surprising sky has almost everything. First, slanting down from the upper left and far in the distance is the…iotman (59)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Terminator Moon: A Moonscape of Shadows 🪐What's different about this Moon? It's the terminators. In the featured image, you can't directly see any terminator…iotman (59)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Galaxy Lenses Galaxy from Webb 🪐Is this one galaxy or two? Although it looks like one, the answer is two. One path to this happening is when a small…iotman (59)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Orion Nebula in Visible and Infrared 🪐The Great Nebula in Orion is a colorful place. Visible to the unaided eye, it appears as a small fuzzy patch in the…iotman (59)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Painting with Jupiter 🪐In digital brush strokes, Jupiter's signature atmospheric bands and vortices were used to form this interplanetary…iotman (59)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN 🪐In late March, the comet now designated C/2025 F2 SWAN was found independently by citizen scientists Vladimir Bezugly…iotman (59)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Virgo Cluster Galaxies 🪐Galaxies of the Virgo Cluster are scattered across this nearly 4 degree wide telescopic field of view. About 50…iotman (59)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Halo of the Cat's Eye 🪐What created the unusual halo around the Cat's Eye Nebula? No one is sure. What is sure is that the Cat's Eye Nebula…iotman (59)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb 🪐What happens when a star runs out of nuclear fuel? For stars like our Sun, the center condenses into a white dwarf…iotman (59)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT 🪐What's happening at the center of our galaxy? It's hard to tell with optical telescopes since visible light is blocked…iotman (59)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: An Unusual Hole in Mars 🪐What created this unusual hole in Mars? Actually, there are numerous holes pictured in this Swiss cheese-like…iotman (59)in #science • 16 days 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 • 17 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 • 18 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 • 19 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 • 20 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 • 21 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…
