保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
2022年8月8日 The Lagoon Nebula without Stars Image Credit & Copyright: Sameer Dhar Explanation: Ridges of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds inhabit the turbulent, cosmic depths of the Lagoon Nebula. Also known as M8, the bright star forming region is about 5,000 light-years distant. But it still makes for a popular stop on telescopic tours of t...
2022年8月7日 Meteor before Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright: Fritz Helmut Hemmerich Explanation: What’s that green streak in front of the Andromeda galaxy? A meteor. While photographing the Andromeda galaxy in 2016, near the peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower, a small pebble from deep space crossed right in front of our Milky Way Galaxy’s far-dis...
2022年8月6日 Stereo Phobos Image Credit: G. Neukum (FU Berlin) et al., Mars Express, DLR, ESA Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to Phobos, grooved moon of Mars! Captured in 2004 by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, the image data was recorded at a distance of about 200 kilometers from the mar...
Today marks 10 years since the Curiosity rover landed on Mars. Since August 2012, Curiosity has been exploring 3-mile-high Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater. The rover has climbed more than 2,000 feet (612 meters), reaching progressively younger rocks that serve as a record on how Mars has evolved from a wet, habitable planet to a cold desert environment. The photoge...
2022年8月5日 A Beautiful Trifid Image Credit & Copyright: Vikas Chander Explanation: The beautiful Trifid Nebula is a cosmic study in contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid does illustrate three different types of astro...
Like distant galaxies amid clouds of interstellar dust, chunks of sea ice drift through graceful swirls of grease ice in the frigid waters of Foxe Basin near Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Sea ice often begins as grease ice, a soupy slick of tiny ice crystals on the ocean’s surface. As the temperature drops, grease ice thickens and coalesces int...
2022年8月4日 M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules Image Credit & Copyright: Joan Josep Isach Cogollos Explanation: In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, “This is but a little Patch, but it shows 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 Glo...
这段循环视频显示了2022年1月15日洪加汤加洪加哈拜火山水下喷发产生的伞状云。GOES-17卫星拍摄了一系列图像，其中还显示了新月形冲击波和闪电。 影像来源：NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens using GOES imagery courtesy of NOAA and NESDIS NASA的微波临边探测器探测到，大量的水蒸气涌入大气层，最终可能导致地球表面暂时变暖。 1月15日，亨加汤加-亨加-哈拜火山爆发，引发了一场席卷全球的海啸，并引发了环绕地球两周的音爆。南太平洋海底的火山喷发还向地球平流层喷射出巨大的水蒸气，足以填满58,000多个奥运会大小的游泳池。大量的水蒸气足以暂时影响地球的全球平均温度。 “我们从未见过这样的景象。”南加州NASA...
With wildflowers surrounding the view, NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket – carried atop the Crawler-Transporter 2 – arrives at Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 6, 2022. The first in an increasingly complex series of missions, Artemis I will test the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft as an integrated system prior...
2022年8月3日 Halo of the Cat’s Eye Image Credit & Copyright: Bray Falls Explanation: What created the unusual halo around the Cat’s Eye nebula? No one is sure. What is sure is that the Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae on the sky. Although haunting symmetries are seen in the bright central region, this...