iotman (59)in #science • 14 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Double Cluster in Perseus 🪐This stunning starfield spans about three full moons (1.5 degrees) across the heroic northern constellation of…iotman (59)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Meteor before Galaxy 🪐What's that green streak in front of the Andromeda galaxy? A meteor. While photographing the Andromeda galaxy in 2016…iotman (59)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6072: A Complex Planetary Nebula from Webb 🪐Why is this nebula so complex? The Webb Space Telescope has imaged a nebula in great detail that is thought to have…iotman (59)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Blue Arcs Toward Andromeda 🪐What are these gigantic blue arcs near the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)? Discovered in 2022 by amateur astronomers, the…iotman (59)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Milky Way and Exploding Meteor 🪐In about a week the Perseid Meteor Shower will reach its maximum. Grains of icy rock will streak across the sky as…iotman (59)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Fireflies, Meteors, and Milky Way 🪐Taken on July 29 and July 30, a registered and stacked series of exposures creates this dreamlike view of a northern…iotman (59)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Small Dark Nebula 🪐A small, dark, nebula looks isolated near the center of this telescopic close-up. The wedge-shaped cosmic cloudlet…iotman (59)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Supernova 2025rbs in NGC 7331 🪐A long time ago in a galaxy 50 million light-years away, a star exploded. Light from that supernova was first detected…iotman (59)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Coronal Loops on the Sun 🪐Our Sun frequently erupts in loops. Hot solar plasma jumps off the Sun's surface into prominences, with the most…iotman (59)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Helix Nebula Deep Field 🪐Is the Helix Nebula looking at you? No, not in any biological sense, but it does look quite like an eye. The Helix…iotman (59)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Lightning over the Volcano of Water 🪐Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? You're not alone. Details of what causes lightning are still being…iotman (59)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Globular Cluster Omega Centauri 🪐Globular star cluster Omega Centauri packs about 10 million stars much older than the Sun into a volume some 150…iotman (59)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Twelve Years of Kappa Cygnids 🪐Meteors from the Kappa Cygnid meteor shower are captured in this time-lapse composite skyscape. The minor meteor…iotman (59)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Titan Shadow Transit 🪐very 15 years or so, Saturn's rings are tilted edge-on to our line of sight. As the bright, beautiful ring system…iotman (59)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Fireball over Cape San Blas 🪐Have you ever seen a fireball? In astronomy, a fireball is a very bright meteor -- one at least as bright as Venus…iotman (59)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Double Detonation Supernova 🪐Can some supernovas explode twice? Yes, when the first explosion acts like a detonator for the second. This is a…iotman (59)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Cat's Paw Nebula from Webb Space Telescope 🪐Nebulas are perhaps as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats are for getting into trouble.…iotman (59)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Lunar Nearside 🪐About 1,300 images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft's wide angle camera were used to compose this…iotman (59)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 6 🪐The sixth object in Charles Messier's famous catalog of things which are not comets, Messier 6 is a galactic or open…iotman (59)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: ISS Meets Saturn 🪐This month, bright planet Saturn rises in evening skies, its rings oriented nearly edge-on when viewed from planet…
