iotman (58)in #science • 2 hours 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 (58)in #science • yesterday🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Green Aurora over Sweden 🪐It was bright and green and stretched across the sky. This striking aurora display was captured in 2016 just outside…iotman (58)in #science • 2 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: CG4: The Globule and the Galaxy 🪐Can a gas cloud eat a galaxy? It's not even close. The "claw" of this odd looking "creature" in the featured photo…iotman (58)in #science • 3 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Aurora Dome Sky 🪐It seemed like night, but part of the sky glowed purple. It was the now famous night of May 10, 2024, when people…iotman (58)in #science • 5 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: North Celestial Aurora 🪐Graceful star trail arcs reflect planet Earth's daily rotation in this colorful night skyscape. To create the…iotman (58)in #science • 6 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Aurora Banks Peninsula 🪐This well-composed composite panoramic view looks due south from Banks Peninsula near Christchurch on New Zealand's…iotman (58)in #science • 8 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: AR 3664 at the Sun's Edge 🪐What did the monster active region that created the recent auroras look like when at the Sun's edge? There, AR 3664…iotman (58)in #science • 9 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The 37 Cluster 🪐For the mostly harmless denizens of planet Earth, the brighter stars of open cluster NGC 2169 seem to form a cosmic…iotman (58)in #science • 10 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: AR 3664 on a Setting Sun 🪐It was larger than the Earth. It was so big you could actually see it on the Sun's surface without magnification. It…iotman (58)in #science • 11 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Red Aurora over Poland 🪐Northern lights don't usually reach this far south. Magnetic chaos in the Sun's huge Active Region 3664, however…iotman (58)in #science • 12 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: AR 3664: Giant Sunspot Group 🪐Right now, one of the largest sunspot groups in recent history is crossing the Sun. Active Region 3664 is not only big…iotman (58)in #science • 14 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole 🪐Bright elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is home to the supermassive black hole captured in 2017 by planet Earth's…iotman (58)in #science • 16 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Black Hole Accreting with Jet 🪐What happens when a black hole devours a star? Many details remain unknown, but observations are providing new clues.…iotman (58)in #science • 18 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Black Hole Disrupts a Passing Star 🪐What happens to a star that goes near a black hole? If the star directly impacts a massive black hole, then the star…iotman (58)in #science • 19 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 3 ATs 🪐Despite their resemblance to R2D2, these three are not the droids you're looking for. Instead, the enclosures house…iotman (58)in #science • 20 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Temperatures on Exoplanet WASP-43b 🪐A mere 280 light-years from Earth, tidally locked, Jupiter-sized exoplanet WASP-43b orbits its parent star once every…iotman (58)in #science • 21 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M100: A Grand Design Spiral Galaxy 🪐Majestic on a truly cosmic scale, M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. The large galaxy of…iotman (58)in #science • 22 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: IC 1795: The Fishhead Nebula 🪐To some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish. However, this colorful cosmic portrait really features glowing gas…iotman (58)in #science • 23 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: GK Per: Nova and Planetary Nebula 🪐The star system GK Per is known to be associated with only two of the three nebulas pictured. At 1500 light years…iotman (58)in #science • 24 days ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Comet, Planet, Moon 🪐Three bright objects satisfied seasoned stargazers of the western sky just after sunset earlier this month. The most…
