保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
2020 March 22 Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano Video Credit & Copyright: Daniel López (El Cielo de Canarias); Music: Piano della Moon (Dan Silva) Explanation: These people are not in danger. What is coming down from the left is just the Moon, far in the distance. Luna appears so large here because she is being photographed through a telescopic lens. Wh...
2020 March 21 Comet ATLAS and the Mighty Galaxies Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri (CARA Project, CAST) Explanation: Comet ATLAS C/2019 Y4 was discovered by the NASA funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, the last comet discovery reported in 2019. Now growing brighter in northern night skies, the comet’s pretty greenish co...
一个天文学家小组利用美国国家航空航天局(NASA)的哈勃太空望远镜(Hubble Space Telescope)的独特功能，发现了宇宙中有史以来最强劲的能量外流。它们从类星体发出，像海啸一样横扫星际空间，对类星体所在的星系造成严重破坏。 类星体是极遥远的天体，释放出异常巨大的能量。类星体中包含着由入射物质推动的超大质量黑洞，这些物质的亮度是由几千亿颗恒星组成的主星系的1000倍。 当黑洞吞噬物质时，热气体将其包围并发出强烈的辐射，从而形成类星体。由黑洞附近的炽热辐射压力驱动的风将物质推离银河系的中心。这些流出物加速到惊人的速度，其速度达到光速的百分之几。 “没有其他现象会携带更多的机械能。在一千万年的生命周期中，这些流出物所产生的能量是伽马射线爆发的一百万倍。”弗吉尼亚州布莱克斯堡的弗吉尼亚理工学院的首席研究...
Michelle Lynde is an aerospace engineer who conducts aerodynamic analysis of configurations using Computational Fluid Dynamics tools, wind tunnel experiments and flight tests. Like other women at NASA, she makes history every day by contributing to groundbreaking missions and projects in the areas of space, science and aeronautics. Women at the agency are de...
Former astronaut Al Worden, command module pilot on the Apollo 15 lunar landing, passed away March 18, 2020, in Texas. As command module pilot, Worden stayed in orbit while commander David Scott and lunar module pilot Jim Irwin explored the Moon’s Hadley Rille and Appennine Mountains. Apollo 15’s command module, dubbed Endeavour, was the first to have its o...
2020 March 20 Morning, Planets, Moon and Montreal Image Credit & Copyright: Arnaud Mariat Explanation: Dawn’s early light came to Montreal, northern planet Earth, on March 18, the day before the vernal equinox. At the end of that nearly equal night the Moon stands above a dense constellation of urban lights in this serene city and skyscape. Of cou...
href=”https://www.nasachina.cn/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/alligator_in_waterway.jpg”> An alligator lurks in a marshy waterway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The center shares a border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. More than 330 native and migratory bird species, 25 mammal, 117 fish and 65 amphibian and reptil...
2020 March 19 M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules Image Credit & Copyright: Eric Coles and Mel Helm Explanation: In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, “This is but a little Patch, but it shews itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.” Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great G...
格陵兰岛东南海岸线外的库鲁苏克岛附近冰山的鸟瞰图，该地区的冰层流失速度加快。 来源：NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 从11个监测格陵兰岛和南极冰盖的卫星任务中观察到的情况显示，这些地区的冰层融化速度比上世纪90年代快了6倍。如果目前的融化趋势继续下去，到2100年，这些地区将面临政府间气候变化专门委员会(IPCC)提出的海平面上升6.7英寸(17厘米)的“最坏情况”。 3月12日，来自50个组织的89名国际极地科学家组成的研究小组在《自然》(Nature)杂志网络版上发表了这一发现，这是迄今为止对冰盖变化最全面的评估。冰盖质量平衡比对演习小组结合26次调查，计算了1992年至2018年期间格陵兰岛和南极冰盖的质量变化。 该评估得到了美国宇航局和欧洲航天局的支持。这项调查使用了包...
With the USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) in the distance, helicopters from the HSC-23 squadron fly by a test version of an Orion capsule during Underway Recovery Test-8 in the Pacific Ocean. During this first full mission profile test of the recovery procedures for Artemis I, NASA’s Landing and Recovery team met their objectives. Artemis I, formerly Exploration ...