保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
In this photo from Nov. 9, 2023, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket illuminates the water as it launches at night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 29th commercial resupply mission of the Cargo Dragon spacecraft brought new scientific research, technology demonstrations, crew supplies, and hardware to the International Space Station, including NASA’s In...
2023年11月13日 Andromeda over the Alps Image Credit & Copyright: Dzmitry Kananovich Explanation: Have you ever seen the Andromeda galaxy? Although M31 appears as a faint and fuzzy blob to the unaided eye, the light you see will be over two million years old, making it likely the oldest light you ever will see directly. The featured image captured Andromeda...
2023年11月12日 Gibbous Moon beyond Swedish Mountain Image Credit & Copyright: Göran Strand Explanation: This is a gibbous Moon. More Earthlings are familiar with a full moon, when the entire face of Luna is lit by the Sun, and a crescent moon, when only a sliver of the Moon’s face is lit. When more than half of the Moon is illuminated, though, but st...
2023年11月11日 The SAR and the Milky Way Image Credit & Copyright: Julien Looten Explanation: This broad, luminous red arc was a surprising visitor to partly cloudy evening skies over northern France. Captured extending toward the zenith in a west-to-east mosaic of images from November 5, the faint atmospheric ribbon of light is an example of a Stable Auro...
2023年11月10日 UHZ1: Distant Galaxy and Black Hole Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand Explanation: Dominated by dark matter, massive cluster of galaxies Abell 2744 is known to some as Pandora’s Cluster. It lies 3.5 billion light-years away toward the cons...
NASA的詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜和哈勃太空望远镜联合起来研究一个被称为MACS0416的膨胀星系团。由此产生的全色图像结合了可见光和红外光，组合成有史以来最全面的宇宙视图之一。MACS0416距离地球约43亿光年，是一对相互碰撞的星系团，它们最终将合并成一个更大的星系团。
A sounding rocket launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov. 8, 2023, carrying NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s DISSIPATION mission. The rocket launched into aurora and successfully captured data to understand how auroras heat the atmosphere and cause high-altitude winds. The teams continue to support a second sounding rocket laun...
2023年11月9日 M1: The Crab Nebula Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Tea Temim (Princeton University) Explanation: The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier’s famous 18th century list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to be a supernova remnant, debris from the death explosion of a massive star w...
Casey Denham, aerospace engineer with the Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, works with tribal students during a STEM activity at the American Indian Engineering Sciences (AISES) National Conference in Spokane, Washington, Oct. 19-21, 2023. Denham, whose heritage is Meskwaki, was part of a NASA g...
使用NASA詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜的科学家刚刚在揭示行星是如何形成方面取得了突破性的发现。通过观察原行星盘上的水蒸气，韦伯证实了一个物理过程，即被冰覆盖的固体从原行星盘的外部区域漂流到岩石行星区。