保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
2020年10月18日 UGC 1810: Wildly Interacting Galaxy from Hubble Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Processing & Copyright: Domingo Pestana Explanation: What’s happening to this spiral galaxy? Although details remain uncertain, it surely has to do with an ongoing battle with its smaller galactic neighbor. The featured galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by ...
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules, or frEGGs for short. This object is formally known as J025157.5+600606. When a massive new star starts to shine while still within the cool molecular gas cloud from which it formed, its energetic rad...
2020年10月17日 Cygnus: Bubble and Crescent Image Credit & Copyright: Wissam Ayoub Explanation: These clouds of gas and dust drift through rich star fields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the high flying constellation Cygnus. Caught within the telescopic field of view are the Soap Bubble (lower left) and the Crescent Nebula (upper right). Bot...
2020年10月16日 Planetary Nebula Abell 78 Image Credit & Copyright: Bernhard Hubl Explanation: Planetary nebula Abell 78 stands out in this colorful telescopic skyscape. In fact the colors of the spiky Milky Way stars depend on their surface temperatures, both cooler (yellowish) and hotter (bluish) than the Sun. But Abell 78 shines by the characteristic emi...
Scientists have come to realize that, just below the surface, about one third of Mars is covered in ice. We study this ice to learn about Mars’ ancient climate and astronauts’ future water supplies. Sometimes we see the buried ice because cliffs form like the one in this image. On the brownish, dusty cliff wall, the faint light-blue-colored ice s...
这张照片是2015年新视野号(New Horizon)飞越这颗矮行星时拍摄到的数据，照片中还有比加菲塔·蒙特斯(Pigafetta Montes)山脉的特写镜头。右边的颜色表示甲烷冰的浓度，高海拔地区的高浓度甲烷冰为红色，低海拔地区的低浓度甲烷冰为蓝色。 来源：NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI and Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter 2015年，新视野号宇宙飞船飞越冥王星时，发现冥王星上的山脉被甲烷冰覆盖，形成了明亮的沉积物，与地球上发现的白雪覆盖的山脉惊人地相似。 由国际科学家组成的团队进行的新研究，包括位于加利福尼亚州硅谷的美国宇航局艾姆斯研究中心(Ames research Center)的研究人员，利用的新视野号冥王星气候的数据模拟分析了冥王星大气和地表，显示了这些...
2020年10月15日 Galaxies in Pegasus Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Eder Explanation: This sharp telescopic view reveals galaxies scattered beyond the stars of the Milky Way, at the northern boundary of the high-flying constellation Pegasus. Prominent at the upper right is NGC 7331. A mere 50 million light-years away, the large spiral is one of the brighte...
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen as she has her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked as she and fellow crewmates Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio launched at 1:45 a.m. EDT to begin a six-month mi...
45亿年前，地球表面是一个危险而炎热的世界。此外，在我们还只是一个蹒跚学步的孩子时，太阳以猛烈的辐射爆发轰击我们的星球，称之为耀斑和日冕物质抛射。被称为太阳风的带电粒子流威胁着我们的大气层。简而言之，我们的星球是不适合居住的。 地球和月球，这是20世纪90年代伽利略号任务拍摄的两张照片的合成图，有着悠久的共同历史。数十亿年前，它们的磁场相互连接。 影像来源：美国国家航空航天局/喷气推进实验室/美国地质调查局 但是一个邻近的地盾可能帮助我们的星球保持它的大气层，并最终发展生命和适宜居住的条件。美国国家航空航天局（NASA）在《科学进展》杂志上发表的一项研究称，这个保护层就是月球。 “月球似乎为地球提供了一个抵御太阳风的实质性屏障，这对地球在此期间维持大气层的能力至关重要。”NASA首席科学家、这项新研究的主要作者...
The brightest stars embedded in nebulae throughout our galaxy pour out a torrent of radiation that eats into vast clouds of hydrogen gas – the raw material for building new stars. This etching process sculpts a fantasy landscape where human imagination can see all kinds of shapes and figures. This nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia has flowing veils o...