iotman (60)in #science • 5 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet R3 PanSTARRS Behind Satellite Trails 🪐Can you find the comet? Somewhere through this web of satellite trails is Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS), a bright…iotman (60)in #science • yesterday🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Mystic Mountain Monster being Destroyed 🪐Inside the head of this interstellar monster is a star that is slowly destroying it. The huge monster, actually an…iotman (60)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Persistence of Sunlight 🪐This seaside sunset offered a surreal experience, captured in a sea and skyscape from the west coast of Sardinia…iotman (60)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Young Moon and Sister Stars 🪐Sunlit arms of a crescent moon seem to embrace the faint lunar night side in this dramatic celestial view from planet…iotman (60)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Three Sky Arches over Snowy Alps 🪐Why are there three arches across the sky instead of two? Last month, after being dropped off by a helicopter at a…iotman (60)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: South Celestial Tree 🪐If you live in the northern hemisphere, you may have learned how to locate the North Star, Polaris, in the night sky.…iotman (60)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The ISS Transits the Moon 🪐Nope, that is not an alien spaceship landing on the Moon! This is an image of the International Space Station (ISS) as…iotman (60)in #science • 13 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Long Wispy Tail of Comet R3 (PanSTARRS) 🪐Why does Comet R3 (PanSTARRS) have a wispy tail? The newest bright member of the inner Solar System, Comet C/2025 R3…iotman (60)in #science • 15 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet R3 (PanSTARRS) Brightens 🪐Comet R3 is brightening rapidly -- will it survive? C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) has been slowly brightening and extending…iotman (60)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula 🪐Do you see the horse's head? What you are seeing is not the famous Horsehead nebula toward Orion, but rather a…iotman (60)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 3310: A Starburst Spiral Galaxy 🪐The party is still going on in spiral galaxy NGC 3310. Roughly 100 million years ago, NGC 3310 likely collided with a…iotman (60)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Hello World 🪐From pole to pole our fair planet is captured in this snapshot from space, an evocative image from a window of the…iotman (60)in #science • 24 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Caught in the Web: Visualization of a Black Hole Merger in the Tarantula Nebula 🪐How can we see what is invisible? Black holes are not easy to see in the dark cosmic night, but astronomers can find…iotman (60)in #science • 25 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Liftoff! Returning to the Moon 🪐We are one small step closer to returning to the Moon. A new chapter in human exploration began yesterday when NASA's…iotman (60)in #science • 26 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Claw and Bubble Nebulae 🪐What unexpected things do you see when you look up at the night sky? Today’s image resembles an abstract painting…iotman (60)in #science • 27 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Uranus's Largest Moon: Titania 🪐Titania's tortured terrain is a mix of canyons, cliffs, and craters. NASA's interplanetary robot spacecraft Voyager 2…iotman (60)in #science • 28 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Peculiar Elliptical Galaxy Centaurus A 🪐What's happened to the center of this galaxy? Dramatic dust lanes run across the center of unusual elliptical galaxy…iotman (60)in #science • 29 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Message from Earth 🪐What are these Earthlings trying to tell us? The featured message was broadcast from Earth towards the globular star…iotman (60)in #science • last month🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Robert Goddard and Nell 🪐Robert H. Goddard, considered the father of modern rocketry, was born in Worcester Massachusetts in 1882. As a 16 year…iotman (60)in #science • last month🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Hickson 44 in Leo 🪐Scanning the skies for galaxies, Canadian astronomer Paul Hickson and colleagues identified some 100 compact groups of…
