保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
The tip of the Canadarm2 robotic arm, also formally known as the Latching End Effector, is pictured as the International Space Station soared over the South Pacific Ocean and into an orbital sunrise in this image taken on Sept. 30, 2020. The Canadarm2 is designed to grapple hardware, science experiments, and approaching spaceships. Image Credit: NASA 在2020年9...
2020年10月7日 Ou4: A Giant Squid in a Flying Bat Image Credit & Copyright: Yannick Akar Explanation: A very faint but very large squid-like nebula is visible in planet Earth’s sky — but inside a still larger bat. The Giant Squid Nebula cataloged as Ou4, and Sh2-129 also known as the Flying Bat Nebula, are both caught in this cosmic scene toward...
Space is hard, the saying goes, and conducting science in space presents challenges of its own. Few researchers have had to overcome hurricanes and earthquakes, though, just two of the hurdles a team of chemists in Puerto Rico faced getting their investigation to the International Space Station. In this image, Camila Morales-Navas, a chemistry Ph.D. student,...
熟悉的恒星闪耀，星云发光，附近的星系令人垂涎，这是由美国宇航局（NASA）的凌日系外行星调查卫星（TESS）拍摄的208张照片拼凑而成的一幅新的北方天空全景图。在为期两年的观测中，这个行星猎人拍摄了大约75%的天空，而且仍在继续。 NASA的TESS花了近一年的时间，对北部天空进行成像，以寻找我们太阳系以外的世界。游览此全景图，看看TESS迄今为止发现了什么。 影像来源：NASA戈达德太空飞行中心 TESS已经发现了74颗系外行星，也就是太阳系之外的世界。天文学家正在筛选大约1200个额外的系外行星候选行星，那里可能有新的行星等待确认。在北部的天空中有600多个这样的候选天体。 TESS通过在大范围的天空中同时监测许多恒星并观察它们亮度的微小变化来定位行星。在我们看来，当一颗行星从主星前方经过时，它会挡住部分恒...
2020年10月6日 Mars Approach 2020 Image Credit: Jonathan T. Grayson Explanation: Look to the east just after sunset tonight and you’ll see a most impressive Mars. Tonight, Mars will appear its biggest and brightest of the year, as Earth passes closer to the red planet than it has in over two years — and will be again for another two years. In a week,...
在这张图中，哨兵6号迈克尔·弗雷里奇卫星（Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich）——世界上最新的海平面卫星——带着可展开的太阳能电池板绕地球轨道运行。 影像来源：美国宇航局/加州理工大学 这颗地球观测卫星将于11月发射，它将密切监测海平面，并提供大气数据，以支持天气预报和气候模型。 11月10日，世界上最新的地球观测卫星将从加利福尼亚州的范登堡空军基地发射。作为一个具有历史意义的美国-欧洲伙伴关系，哨兵6号迈克尔·弗雷里奇卫星将开始一项为期五年半的主要任务，收集迄今为止关于全球海平面的最精确数据，以及海平面如何随着气候变化而上升。该任务还将收集大气温度和湿度的精确数据，这将有助于改善天气预报和气候模型。 这艘飞船是以迈克尔·弗雷里奇(Michael Freilich)博士的名字命名的。弗赖利奇...
A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with the company’s Cygnus spacecraft aboard, launches at 9:16 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, from the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s 14th contracted cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station is carrying nearly ...
2020年10月5日 NGC 5643: Nearby Spiral Galaxy from Hubble Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.; Acknowledgement: Mahdi Zamani Explanation: What’s happening at the center of spiral galaxy NGC 5643? A swirling disk of stars and gas, NGC 5643’s appearance is dominated by blue spiral arms and brown dust, as shown in the featured image ta...
2020年10月4日 Orion Nebula in Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Sulfur Image Credit & Copyright: César Blanco González Explanation: Few astronomical sights excite the imagination like the nearby stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula. The Nebula’s glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud. Many of the filamen...
空间站下一批乘员出发前往发射地；新一批货资发射抵达空间站；准备好进行某种首次空间站乘员轮换任务……最近新闻速递，尽在「本周NASA」！ Credit：NASA 9月27日，包括NASA凯特·鲁宾斯（Kate Rubins）在内的空间站第64号远征队（Expedition 64）成员参加了在俄罗斯星城举行的传统发射前典礼，并前往哈萨克斯坦的拜科努尔航天发射场（Baikonur Cosmodrome）完成训练。鲁宾斯与俄罗斯宇航员谢尔盖·雷吉科夫（Sergey Ryzhikov）和谢尔盖·库德·斯维奇科夫（Sergey Kud-Sverchkov）计划于10月14日发射前往空间站。 Credit：NASA 诺斯罗普·格鲁曼公司（Northrop Grumman）的天鹅座（Cygnus）货运飞船于10月2日从NASA...