iotman (59)in #science • 2 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 • 3 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 • 4 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 • 5 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 • 6 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 • 7 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 • 9 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 • 10 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 • 11 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.…iotman (59)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project 🪐Recorded from 2024 March 10, to 2025 March 1, this composited series of images reveals a pattern in the seasonal drift…iotman (59)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Blue Ghost's Diamond Ring 🪐On March 14 the Full Moon slid through Earth's dark umbral shadow and denizens of planet Earth were treated to a total…iotman (59)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: LDN 1235: The Shark Nebula 🪐There is no sea on Earth large enough to contain the Shark nebula. This predator apparition poses us no danger as it…iotman (59)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun 🪐This was a very unusual type of solar eclipse. Typically, it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. In 2012…iotman (59)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Tololo Totality 🪐On March 14 the Moon was Full. In an appropriate celebration of Pi day, that put the Moon 3.14 radians (180 degrees)…iotman (59)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow 🪐What phase of the Moon is 3.14 radians from the Sun? The Full Moon, of course. Even though the Moon might look full…iotman (59)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Protostars within Lynds 483 🪐Two protostars are hidden in a single pixel near the center of a striking hourglass-shaped nebula in this…iotman (59)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 772: The Fiddlehead Galaxy 🪐Why does this galaxy look like a curly vegetable? The Fiddlehead spiral galaxy likely gets its distorted spiral…iotman (59)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble 🪐Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest…iotman (59)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1499: The California Nebula 🪐Could Queen Calafia's mythical island exist in space? Perhaps not, but by chance the outline of this molecular space…iotman (59)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Cyclones at Jupiter's North Pole 🪐Why are there so many cyclones around the north pole of Jupiter? The topic is still being researched. NASA's robotic…
