BlogHide Resteemsiotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 18 hours agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: The Da Vinci Glow πͺA 26 hour old Moon poses behind the craggy outline of the Italian Dolomites in this twilight mountain and skyscape. The one second long exposure was captured near moonset on March 30. And while onlyβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 2 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: Jupiter and Ring in Infrared from Webb πͺWhy does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter's main ring was discovered in 1979 by NASA's passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but its origin was then a mystery. Data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft that orbitedβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 5 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: A Partial Solar Eclipse over Iceland πͺWhat if the Sun and Moon rose together? That happened yesterday over some northern parts of planet Earth as a partial solar eclipse occurred shortly after sunrise. Regions that experienced the Moonβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 6 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: Stereo Helene πͺGet out your red/blue glasses and float next to Helene, small, icy moon of Saturn. Appropriately named, Helene is a Trojan moon, so called because it orbits at a Lagrange point. A Lagrange point isβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 7 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: Lunar Dust and Duct Tape πͺWhy is the Moon so dusty? On Earth, rocks are weathered by wind and water, creating soil and sand. On the Moon, eons of constant micrometeorite bombardment have blasted away at the rocky surfaceβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 8 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: Messier 81 πͺOne of the brightest galaxies in planet Earth's sky is similar in size to our Milky Way Galaxy: big, beautiful Messier 81. Also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's galaxy for its 18th century discovererβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 9 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: Star Formation in the Pacman Nebula πͺYou'd think the Pacman Nebula would be eating stars, but actually it is forming them. Within the nebula, a cluster's young, massive stars are powering the pervasive nebular glow. The eye-catchingβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 10 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: A Blue Banded Blood Moon πͺWhat causes a blue band to cross the Moon during a lunar eclipse? The blue band is real but usually quite hard to see. The featured HDR image of last week's lunar eclipse, however -- taken fromβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 12 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: Ancient Ogunquit Beach on Mars πͺThis was once a beach -- on ancient Mars. The featured 360-degree panorama, horizontally compressed, was taken in 2017 by the robotic Curiosity rover that explored the red planet. Named Ogunquitβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 13 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: SuperCam Target on Ma'az πͺWhat's the sound of one laser zapping? There's no need to consult a Zen master to find out, just listen to the first acoustic recording of laser shots on Mars. On Mars Rover Perseverance mission solβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 14 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: The Leo Trio πͺThis popular group leaps into the early evening sky around the March equinox and the northern hemisphere spring. Famous as the Leo Triplet, the three magnificent galaxies found in the prominentβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 15 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project πͺRecorded from 2024 March 10, to 2025 March 1, this composited series of images reveals a pattern in the seasonal drift of the Sun's daily motion through planet Earth's sky. Known to some as anβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 16 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: Blue Ghost's Diamond Ring πͺOn March 14 the Full Moon slid through Earth's dark umbral shadow and denizens of planet Earth were treated to a total lunar eclipse. Of course, from the Moon's near side that same astronomicalβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 17 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: LDN 1235: The Shark Nebula πͺThere is no sea on Earth large enough to contain the Shark nebula. This predator apparition poses us no danger as it is composed only of interstellar gas and dust. Dark dust like that featured hereβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 19 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun πͺThis was a very unusual type of solar eclipse. Typically, it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. In 2012, though, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the Moon, the phaseβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 20 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: Tololo Totality πͺOn March 14 the Moon was Full. In an appropriate celebration of Pi day, that put the Moon 3.14 radians (180 degrees) in ecliptic longitude from the Sun in planet Earth's sky. As a bonus for fans ofβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 21 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow πͺWhat phase of the Moon is 3.14 radians from the Sun? The Full Moon, of course. Even though the Moon might look full for several days, the Moon is truly at its full phase when it is Pi radians (akaβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 22 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: The Protostars within Lynds 483 πͺTwo protostars are hidden in a single pixel near the center of a striking hourglass-shaped nebula in this near-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The actively forming star systemβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 23 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 772: The Fiddlehead Galaxy πͺWhy does this galaxy look like a curly vegetable? The Fiddlehead spiral galaxy likely gets its distorted spiral appearance from a gravitational interaction with its close-by elliptical companionβ¦iotman (59)inΒ scienceΒ β’Β 24 days agoπ SpacePicture of a Day: NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble πͺMany spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, featured here, was captured inβ¦