BlogHide Resteemsiotman (59)in science • 14 hours ago🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Medusa Nebula 🪐Braided and serpentine filaments of glowing gas suggest this nebula's popular name, The Medusa Nebula. Also known as Abell 21, this Medusa is an old planetary nebula some 1,500 light-years away in…iotman (59)in science • 2 days 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 young star cluster complex IC 1396, in the high and far off constellation of…iotman (59)in science • 3 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 the Artemis I mission, their home world is setting behind the Moon's bright edge…iotman (59)in science • 4 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 a hill, and that maybe a world-famous observatory is located there, only part of…iotman (59)in science • 5 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 born. The tools the stars use to carve their detailed works are high energy light…iotman (59)in science • 6 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 newly forming star, seen as the bright source at the peak of the parabola. This…iotman (59)in science • 7 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 kilometers (almost 4.5 light-hours) behind the dim and distant world. It was captured…iotman (59)in science • 8 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 features Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad visiting the Surveyor 3 spacecraft in…iotman (59)in science • 9 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 telescopic frame the colorful complex of dust, gas, and stars spans about 3 degrees on…iotman (59)in science • 10 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 galaxy about 200,000 light-years in diameter. That's twice the size of our own…iotman (59)in science • 11 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 center of the featured image, was created by the brightest star in its center. A…iotman (59)in science • 12 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 mid-October not only caught its impressively long tail and its thin anti-tail, but a…iotman (59)in science • 13 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 valley extends over 3,000 kilometers long, spans as much as 600 kilometers…iotman (59)in science • 14 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 are needed to catch a glimpse of the dim and distant world. This dramatic view of…iotman (59)in science • 15 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 scale. Part of a local complex of star-forming interstellar clouds they include…iotman (59)in science • 17 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 during its trip near the Sun, resulting in many impressive pictures from planet…iotman (59)in science • 18 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 called moais exist there. The Rapa Nui (Easter Island) moais stand, on average, over…iotman (59)in science • 19 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 nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense…iotman (59)in science • 20 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 spacecraft imaged an usually dark cloud feature informally dubbed the Abyss. Surrounding…iotman (59)in science • 22 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 some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo but appears…
