NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 8 January 2023: Wow! Origin of water in body, periodic table
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Surprisingly, NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is not a spectacular view of the cosmos, but a periodic table! Read on to know why.
Each day, NASA features a different image of our fascinating universe along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Today, the image neither features any breathtaking image of a galaxy in the deep cosmos nor reveals an unseen image of our biggest star, our Sun. Instead, NASA dedicated today's astronomy picture of the day to the periodic table of elements. If you can recall your chemistry classes in school, then it is the same periodic table, but with a slight twist! NASA's shared periodic table is colour coded to indicate humanity's best guess as to the nuclear origin of all known elements. In other words, it represents "Wh...