iotman (60)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Saturn at Night 🪐Telescopic views of Saturn and its beautiful rings often make it the star of star parties. But this stunning view of…iotman (60)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Eagle Nebula Pillars in Infrared from Hubble 🪐Newborn stars are forming in the Eagle Nebula. They are gravitationally contracting in pillars of dense gas and…iotman (60)in #science • 4 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Supermoon Versus Micromoon 🪐What is so micro about tonight's blue micromoon? Just after sunset, a full moon will appear slightly smaller and…iotman (60)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 104 🪐A gorgeous spiral galaxy, Messier 104 is famous for its nearly edge-on profile featuring a broad ring of obscuring…iotman (60)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1514: The Crystal Ball Nebula 🪐What do you see in this crystal ball? The featured image shows NGC 1514, known as the Crystal Ball Nebula, observed…iotman (60)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 3660 and Burçin's Galaxy 🪐The upper galaxy might be more photogenic, but the lower galaxy is more unusual. The galaxy up top is NGC 3660, a…iotman (60)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Thackeray's Globules 🪐What are these strange space globs? Situated in rich star fields and glowing hydrogen gas, these opaque clouds of…iotman (60)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 2 🪐After the Crab Nebula, this giant star cluster is the second entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier's famous…iotman (60)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Nebulous Realm of WR 134 🪐This cosmic snapshot covers a field of view over twice as wide as the full Moon within the boundaries of the…iotman (60)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Collision of Galaxy Clusters 🪐This big beautiful spiral shines in X-ray light. It is about 20 times larger than our Galaxy. It belongs to Abell…iotman (60)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Dark Wolf Nebula 🪐A dark wolf lies in gum. No, this isn’t a riddle! Today's image features the Dark Wolf Nebula (Sandqvist–Lindroos 17)…iotman (60)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 2170: The Angel Nebula 🪐Is this a painting or a photograph? In this celestial abstract art composed with a cosmic brush, dusty nebula NGC…iotman (60)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Unraveling NGC 3169 🪐Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 looks to be unraveling like a ball of cosmic yarn. It lies some 70 million light-years away…iotman (60)in #science • 17 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1300: Barred Spiral Galaxy 🪐Across the center of this spiral galaxy is a bar. And at the center of this bar is smaller spiral. And at the center…iotman (60)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Aurora Slathers Up the Sky 🪐Like salsa verde on your favorite burrito, a green aurora slathers up the sky in this 2017 June 25 snapshot from the…iotman (60)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: R3 PanSTARRS: An Orion Comet 🪐Comet R3 PanSTARRS might be best remembered as an Orion comet. A key reason is because Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS)…iotman (60)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier Catalog at Uniform Scale 🪐What are some of the most interesting astronomical objects you can see in the night sky? Armed with a good pair of…iotman (60)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 188: Old Cluster in the New General Catalog 🪐The New General Catalog of star clusters and nebulae really isn't so new. In fact, it was published in 1888 - an…iotman (60)in #science • 24 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet R3 PanSTARRS and Orion 🪐Orion never had a sword like this. As Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) heads out of the inner Solar System, it is putting…iotman (60)in #science • 25 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Messier Craters in Stereo 🪐Many bright nebulae and star clusters in planet Earth's sky are associated with the name of astronomer Charles Messier…
