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IoTman

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ART, IOT and DIY

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IoTman
@iotman Sep 8, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Hubble: Decagon Around Saturn's South Pole 🪐

*** >Why are Saturn’s poles geometric? Saturn’s North Pole has been known to be surrounded by a hexagonal (6 sides) cloud since discovery in 1987 in data taken by NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts, which…

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IoTman
@iotman Sep 7, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Pelican Nebula in Gas, Dust, and Stars 🪐

*** >The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed. IC 5070 (an official designation) is divided from the larger North America Nebula by a molecular cloud filled with dark dust. The deep featured…

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IoTman
@iotman Sep 6, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Pluto in Enhanced Color 🪐

*** >Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System's most famous dwarf planet, taken by the robotic New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in…

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IoTman
@iotman Sep 5, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Chasing the Moon's Shadow 🪐

*** >Chasing the shadow of a New Moon, NASA’s WB-57F high altitude research aircraft took to the skies off the coast of Iceland on August 12 to observe a total solar eclipse. At 50,000 feet the ai…

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IoTman
@iotman Sep 4, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola 🪐

*** >Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola, is the Hawaiian name given to this image of a pair of spiral galaxies locked in a mutual gravitational embrace. Some 200 million light-years distant toward t…

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IoTman
@iotman Sep 3, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: The Eclipse and the Stork 🪐

*** >How do animals react to a total solar eclipse? The featured image shows a stork roosting on her nest in Poland at a partial phase of the recent total solar eclipse. If you are lucky enough to…

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IoTman
@iotman Sep 2, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Solar Eclipses and Culture 🪐

*** >Pretend you have never heard of a solar eclipse. The Sun’s behavior has been predictable your whole life. One day, you witness the sky transform as it does in today’s spliced image spanning t…

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IoTman
@iotman Sep 1, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Plane Lunar Eclipse 🪐

*** >Did you need to be on the right side of this airplane to see this eclipse? No. Lunar eclipses are routinely seen from the half of the Earth facing the Moon when the eclipse occurs, making the…

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IoTman
@iotman Aug 30, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: M74: A Grand Design Spiral 🪐

*** >If not the most grand, then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe of about 100 billion stars, 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisc…

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IoTman
@iotman Aug 29, 2026, 6:05 PM UTC

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Eclipse Pair 🪐

*** >clipses tend to come in pairs. Twice a year, during an eclipse season that lasts about 34 days, Sun, Moon, and Earth can nearly align. Then the new and full phases of the Moon, separated by j…

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