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iss061e028414 (Nov. 4, 2019) — The U.S. Cygnus space freighter from Northrop Grumman is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm as it was installed to the Unity module for 70 days of cargo transfers. iss061e028414(2019年11月4日)——被安装到Unity模块进行70天的货物运输的加拿大机械臂-2（Canadarm2），成功捕获了来自诺斯罗普·格鲁曼公司的美国天鹅座宇宙飞船。
2019 November 11 Lunar Craters Langrenus and Petavius Image Credit & Copyright: Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau Explanation: The history of the Moon is partly written in its craters. Pictured here is a lunar panorama taken from Earth featuring the large craters Langrenus, toward the left, and Petavius, toward the right. The craters formed in separate impacts...
2019 November 10 A Mercury Transit Sequence Image Credit & Copyright: Dominique Dierick Explanation: Tomorrow — Monday — Mercury will cross the face of the Sun, as seen from Earth. Called a transit, the last time this happened was in 2016. Because the plane of Mercury’s orbit is not exactly coincident with the plane of Earth’s or...
2019 November 9 Saturn the Giant Image Credit: NASA Explanation: On May 25, 1961 U.S. president John Kennedy announced the goal of landing astronauts on the Moon by the end of the decade. By November 9, 1967 this Saturn V rocket was ready for launch and the first full test of its capabilities on the Apollo 4 mission. Its development directed by rocket pionee...
2019 November 8 NGC 3572 and the Southern Tadpoles Image Credit & Copyright: Josep Drudis Explanation: This cosmic skyscape features glowing gas and dark dust clouds along side the young stars of NGC 3572. A beautiful emission nebula and star cluster in far southern skies, the region is often overlooked by astroimagers in favor of its brighter neighbor,...
2019 November 7 Messier 45: The Daughters of Atlas and Pleione Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona Explanation: Hurtling through a cosmic dust cloud a mere 400 light-years away, the lovely Pleiades or Seven Sisters open star cluster is well-known for its striking blue reflection nebulae. It lies in the night ...
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, Saturday, November 2, 2019, in Virginia. This is Northrop Grumman’s 12th contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, and is delivering about 8,200 pounds of science and research, crew supplies a...
2019 November 5 Spiral Galaxies Spinning Super-Fast Image Credit: Top row: NASA, ESA, Hubble, P. Ogle & J. DePasquale (STScI); Bottom row: SDSS, P. Ogle & J. DePasquale (STScI) Explanation: Why are these galaxies spinning so fast? If you estimated each spiral’s mass by how much light it emits, their fast rotations should break them apart. The...
From the vantage point of space aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan captured this image of a California wildfire. On his Facebook page, he said: “From the International Space Station I was able to catch these pictures of the California wildfires burning north of the Bay Area. Thinking of the people who have lost their h...
2019 October 31 The Ghostly Veil Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Anis Abdul Explanation: A ghostly visage on a cosmic scale, these remains of shocked, glowing gas haunt planet Earth’s sky toward the constellation of Cygnus and form the Veil Nebula. The nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, an expanding cloud born of the death explosion of a...