保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
2022年10月16日 Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300 Image Credit: NASA ESA, Hubble Heritage Explanation: Across the center of this spiral galaxy is a bar. And at the center of this bar is smaller spiral. And at the center of that spiral is a supermassive black hole. This all happens in the big, beautiful, barred spiral galaxy cataloged as NGC 1300, a galaxy that lies ...
2022年10月15日 GRB 221009A Image Credit: NASA, DOE, Fermi LAT Collaboration Explanation: Gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A likely signals the birth of a new black hole, formed at the core of a collapsing star long ago in the distant universe. The extremely powerful blast is depicted in this animated gif constructed using data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope....
10月9日，星期日，一股异常明亮、持续时间长的高能辐射脉冲席卷地球，世界各地的天文学家都为之着迷。这种辐射来自于伽马射线爆发（GRB），这是宇宙中最强大的一类爆炸，是已知最明亮的事件之一。 东部时间周日上午，一波X射线和伽马射线穿过太阳系，触发了NASA费米伽马射线太空望远镜、尼尔·格雷尔斯雨燕天文台、Wind航天器以及其他探测器。世界各地的望远镜转向该地点研究余波，新的观测仍在继续。 雨燕的X射线望远镜在首次探测到GRB 221009A大约一小时后捕捉到了它的余辉。明亮的光环是X射线从位于爆炸方向的银河系内无法观测的尘埃层散射而形成。 影像来源：NASA/Swift/A. Beardmore (University of Leicester) 被称为GRB 221009A的爆炸为第10届费米研讨会提供了一个意...
“As first-generation immigrants we have to figure things out on our own a lot of times. My parents were going through the same transition [to America] that I was going through [in high school]. We didn’t have a lot of direction. In order for me to get to the path that I’m on today, I had to figure a lot of things out on my own. Because I had to do it to surv...
2022年10月14日 The Falcon and the Hunter’s Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Seeley Explanation: The Full Moon of October 9th was the second Full Moon after the northern hemisphere autumnal equinox, traditionally called the Hunter’s Moon. According to lore, the name is a fitting one because this Full Moon lights the night during a time for...
Expedition 67 flight engineers Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins are all smiles in this Sept. 12, 2022, image from the International Space Station cupola. The cupola is used to monitor the arrival of spaceships and to view the Earth. Hines, Watkins, Kjell Lindgren, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti will begin the return journey to Earth ...
The two interacting galaxies making up the pair known as Arp-Madore 608-333 seem to float side by side in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Though they appear serene and unperturbed, the two are subtly warping one another through a mutual gravitational interaction that is disrupting and distorting both galaxies. Hubble’s Advanced Camera fo...
2022年10月13日 Dust Shells around WR 140 from Webb Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST, MIRI, ERS Program 1349; Processing: Judy Schmidt Explanation: What are those strange rings? Rich in dust, the rings are likely 3D shells — but how they were created remains a topic of research. Where they were created is well known: in a binary star system that lies abo...
2022年10月12日 Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Tommy Lease Explanation: A mysterious squid-like cosmic cloud, this nebula is very faint, but also very large in planet Earth’s sky. In the image, composed with 30 hours of narrowband image data, it spans nearly three full moons toward the royal constellation Cepheus. Discovered in ...
NASA的哈勃太空望远镜于2022年10月8日拍摄的这幅图像显示，9月26日，这颗小行星被NASA的DART航天器故意撞击285小时后，从Dimorphos表面爆炸的碎片。随着时间的推移，碎片尾巴的形状发生了变化。科学家们正在继续研究这种物质以及它在太空中的移动方式，以便更好地了解这颗小行星。 影像来源：NASA/ESA/STScI/Hubble NASA的双小行星重定向测试（DART）调查团队对过去两周获得的数据进行分析后发现，航天器与目标小行星Dimorphos的动力学碰撞成功改变了小行星的轨道。这标志着人类第一次有目的地改变天体的运动，也是第一次全面演示小行星偏转技术。 “我们每个人都有责任保护我们的家园。毕竟，这是我们唯一拥有的星球。”NASA局长比尔·纳尔逊表示。“这次任务表明，NASA正努力为宇宙抛...