PostsCommentsPayoutsiotman (58)in #science • 11 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Black Hole Disrupts a Passing Star 🪐What happens to a star that goes near a black hole? If the star directly impacts a massive black hole, then the star…iotman (58)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 3 ATs 🪐Despite their resemblance to R2D2, these three are not the droids you're looking for. Instead, the enclosures house…iotman (58)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Temperatures on Exoplanet WASP-43b 🪐A mere 280 light-years from Earth, tidally locked, Jupiter-sized exoplanet WASP-43b orbits its parent star once every…iotman (58)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy 🪐Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. The large galaxy of…iotman (58)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula 🪐To some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish. However, this colorful cosmic portrait really features glowing gas…iotman (58)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: GK Per: Nova and Planetary Nebula 🪐The star system GK Per is known to be associated with only two of the three nebulas pictured. At 1500 light years…iotman (58)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet, Planet, Moon 🪐Three bright objects satisfied seasoned stargazers of the western sky just after sunset earlier this month. The most…iotman (58)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Rings Around the Ring Nebula 🪐The Ring Nebula (M57) is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring…iotman (58)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: All Sky Moon Shadow 🪐If the Sun is up but the sky is dark and the horizon is bright all around, you might be standing in the Moon's shadow…iotman (58)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Regulus and the Dwarf Galaxy 🪐In northern hemisphere spring, bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the…iotman (58)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery 🪐Located some 3 million light-years away in the arms of nearby spiral galaxy M33, giant stellar nursery NGC 604 is…iotman (58)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Dragon's Egg Bipolar Emission Nebula 🪐How did a star form this beautiful nebula? In the middle of emission nebula NGC 6164 is an unusually massive star.…iotman (58)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Contrail Shadow X 🪐What created this giant X in the clouds? It was the shadow of contrails illuminated from below. When airplanes fly…iotman (58)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Moon and Smoke Rings from Mt. Etna 🪐Yes, but can your volcano do this? To the surprise of some, Mt. Etna emits, on occasion, smoke rings. Technically…iotman (58)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Diamonds in the Sky 🪐When the dark shadow of the Moon raced across North America on April 8, sky watchers along the shadow's narrow central…iotman (58)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Great Carina Nebula 🪐![The Great Carina Nebula]( CARINA_LOPES1024.jpg) A jewel of the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula is more…iotman (58)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Facing NGC 1232 🪐From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 1232 face-on. Nearly 200,000 light-years across, the big…iotman (58)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Total Eclipse and Comets 🪐Not one, but two comets appeared near the Sun during last week's total solar eclipse. The expected comet was Comet…iotman (58)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant 🪐The explosion is over, but the consequences continue. About eleven thousand years ago, a star in the constellation of…iotman (58)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Cigar Galaxy from Hubble and Webb 🪐Something strange happened to this galaxy, but what? Known as the Cigar Galaxy and cataloged as M82, red glowing gas…