保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
2020年11月9日 In Green Company: Aurora over Norway Image Credit & Copyright: Max Rive Explanation: Raise your arms if you see an aurora. With those instructions, two nights went by with, well, clouds — mostly. On the third night of returning to same peaks, though, the sky not only cleared up but lit up with a spectacular auroral display. Arms went hi...
2020年11月8日 Martian Moon Phobos from Mars Express Image Credit: G. Neukum (FU Berlin) et al., Mars Express, DLR, ESA; Acknowledgement: Peter Masek Explanation: Why is Phobos so dark? Phobos, the largest and innermost of two Martian moons, is the darkest moon in the entire Solar System. Its unusual orbit and color indicate that it may be a captured asteroid co...
横幅图片：土卫六的这些红外图像代表了关于这颗冰冷卫星表面最清晰的全球视野。这些图像是由美国国家航空航天局（NASA）“卡西尼”号（Cassini）所搭载的视觉和红外成像光谱仪（VIMS）采集的13年的数据形成。 来源：NASA/喷气推进实验室-加州理工学院（JPL-Caltech）/南特大学（University of Nantes）/亚利桑那大学（University of Arizona）。 NASA的科学家在土卫六泰坦（Titan）的大气层中发现了一种从未在其他星球大气层中发现的分子。事实上，许多化学家几乎没有听说过，也不知道如何拼写这种分子：环丙烯亚基（cyclopropenylidene）或C3H2。科学家们表示，这种简单的碳基分子可能是更复杂化合物的前体，这些化合物可以在土卫六上形成或供养潜在的生命...
Inside SpaceX’s Payload Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite is being encapsulated in its payload fairing on Nov. 3, 2020. Sentinel-6 is scheduled to launch on Nov. 21, 2020, at 12:17 p.m. EST, atop the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Va...
2020年11月7日 The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies Image Credit & Copyright: Howard Trottier Explanation: These are galaxies of the Hercules Cluster, an archipelago of island universes a mere 500 million light-years away. Also known as Abell 2151, this cluster is loaded with gas and dust rich, star-forming spiral galaxies but has relatively few elliptical gala...
如果没有恒星，宇宙将是一个非常无聊的地方。如果没有它们，宇宙将仍然是一个来自大爆炸的氢和氦的弥散等离子体。 作为宇宙的基本组成部分，恒星核聚变炉锻造出新的重元素，丰富它们的母体星系。来自恒星的辐射能可能在最适宜的行星上孕育生命，就像在地球上一样。 为了更好地了解恒星和恒星演化，位于马里兰州巴尔的摩的太空望远镜科学研究所(STScI)与美国宇航局的哈勃太空望远镜启动了一项雄心勃勃的新计划，名为ULLYSES(UV Legacy Library of Young star，作为基本标准的年轻恒星紫外线遗产库)。 这是大麦哲伦星云（LMC）的地面望远镜照片，该星云是我们银河系的卫星星系。该星系是美国宇航局哈勃太空望远镜ULLYSES(作为基本标准的年轻恒星紫外线遗产库)新计划的几个选定目标之一。该计划正在研究300多...
2020年11月6日 Moon over ISS Image Credit & Copyright: Derek Demeter (Emil Buehler Planetarium) Explanation: Completing one orbit of our fair planet in 90 minutes the International Space Station can easily be spotted by eye as a very bright star moving through the night sky. Have you seen it? The next time you do, you will have recognized the location of ov...
Joseph Connolly is an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. More importantly, he is Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and a citizen of the Six Nations of the Grand River. With a doctorate in aerospace engineering and degrees sociology and control systems, his work is on the cutting edge propulsion systems. Learn more about Dr. Connolly. View the N...
2020年11月5日 North of Orion’s Belt Image Credit & Copyright: Terry Hancock (Grand Mesa Observatory) Explanation: Bright stars, interstellar clouds of dust and glowing nebulae fill this cosmic scene, a skyscape just north of Orion’s belt. Close to the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, the wide field view spans just under 5 degrees or about 10 full...
Orbiting more than 200 miles above Earth, the planet we call home, the crew aboard the International Space Station snapped this image of the Earth’s limb, or horizon, with the Sun’s glint beaming off the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay on Nov. 1, 2020. Image Credit: NASA 2020年11月1日，国际空间站的工作人员在距地球200多英里的轨道上拍摄了这张照片，这张照片是地球的边缘，也就是地平线，太阳的光芒从太平洋和旧...