iotman (59)in #science • 7 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Elephant's Trunk in Cepheus 🪐Like an illustration in a galactic Just So Story, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula winds through the emission region and…iotman (59)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Earthset from Orion 🪐ght billion people are about to disappear in this snapshot from space taken on 2022 November 21. On the sixth day of…iotman (59)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Undulatus Clouds over Las Campanas Observatory 🪐What's happening with these clouds? While it may seem that these long and thin clouds are pointing toward the top of…iotman (59)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Stars and Dust in the Pacman Nebula 🪐Stars can create huge and intricate dust sculptures from the dense and dark molecular clouds from which they are…iotman (59)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: LDN 1471: A Windblown Star Cavity 🪐What is the cause of this unusual parabolic structure? This illuminated cavity, known as LDN 1471, was created by a…iotman (59)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Pluto at Night 🪐The night side of Pluto spans this shadowy scene. In the stunning spacebased perspective the Sun is 4.9 billion…iotman (59)in #science • 7 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3 🪐Put on your red/blue glasses and gaze across the western Ocean of Storms on the surface of the Moon. The 3D anaglyph…iotman (59)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: IC 348 and Barnard 3 🪐A great nebulous region near bright star omicron Persei offers this study in cosmic contrasts. Captured in the…iotman (59)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb 🪐A mere 56 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is an enormous barred spiral…iotman (59)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula 🪐How was the Crescent Nebula created? Looking like an emerging space cocoon, the Crescent Nebula, visible in the…iotman (59)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Unusual Tails of Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas 🪐What created an unusual dark streak in Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas's tail? Some images of the bright comet during…iotman (59)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars 🪐The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the grand…iotman (59)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Neptune at Night 🪐Ice giant Neptune is faint in Earth's night sky. Some 30 times farther from the Sun than our fair planet, telescopes…iotman (59)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Helping Hand in Cassiopeia 🪐Drifting near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy these dusty molecular clouds seem to extend a helping hand on a cosmic…iotman (59)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas over the Dolomites 🪐Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas is now headed back to the outer Solar System. The massive dusty snowball put on quite a show…iotman (59)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Milky Way over Easter Island 🪐Why were the statues on Easter Island built? No one is sure. What is sure is that over 900 large stone statues…iotman (59)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M42: The Great Nebula in Orion 🪐The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is probably the most famous of all astronomical…iotman (59)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Jupiter Abyss 🪐What's that black spot on Jupiter? No one is sure. During one pass of NASA's Juno over Jupiter, the robotic…iotman (59)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744 🪐Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies…iotman (59)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Rigel and the Witch Head Nebula 🪐By starlight, this eerie visage shines in the dark with a crooked profile evoking its popular name, the Witch Head…
