保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
Former astronaut Eileen Collins sits at the pilot’s station aboard space shuttle Discovery during a hotfiring procedure on Feb. 2, 1995. Selected by NASA in January 1990, Collins became the first woman pilot of a Space Shuttle and the first woman to command a shuttle mission. Over four missions—STS-63 Discovery, STS-84 Atlantis, STS-93 Columbia, and STS-114 ...
2023年3月8日 Artificial Night Sky Brightness Image Credit: Data: JPSS Satellites; Processing: David J. Lorenz Explanation: Where have all the dim stars gone? From many places on the Earth including major cities, the night sky has been reduced from a fascinating display of thousands of stars to a diffuse glow through which only a few stars are visible. The featu...
大约一万年前，船帆座的一颗巨星爆炸发出的光到达了地球。这颗超新星留下了一个被称为脉冲星的致密物体，它在旋转时似乎有规律地变亮，就像一座宇宙灯塔。从这颗脉冲星的表面，出现了以接近光速传播的粒子风，形成了带电粒子和磁场的混乱大杂烩，并与周围的气体相撞。这种现象被称为脉冲星风星云。 这张照片显示了船帆座脉冲星风星云。浅蓝色代表来自NASA X射线成像偏振探测器的X射线偏振数据。粉色和紫色对应于NASA钱德拉X射线天文台的数据，该天文台此前曾多次观测到船帆座。NASA的哈勃太空望远镜拍摄了背景中的恒星。单击此处查看未标记的图像。 影像来源：X射线： (IXPE) NASA/MSFC/Fei Xie & (Chandra) NASA/CXC/SAO；光学：NASA/STScI Hubble/Chandra；由N...
Infrared light surges out from the Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27, in this Aug. 10, 2011, image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. This nebula was discovered in 1764 by Charles Messier. It was the first in a class of objects, now known as planetary nebulae, to make it into Messier’s catalog of astronomical objects. Planetary nebulae, histo...
2023年3月7日 Deep Field: The Large Magellanic Cloud Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN) Explanation: Is this a spiral galaxy? No. Actually, it is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the largest satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way Galaxy. The LMC is classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy because of its normally ...
Cyclone Freddy is pictured northeast of the island nation of Mauritius from the International Space Station as it orbited 267 miles above the Indian Ocean on Feb. 20, 2023. On the space station are two NASA-built weather instruments, the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) and the Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST), that t...
2023年3月6日 Jupiter and Venus from Earth Image Credit & Copyright: Marek Nikodem (PPSAE) Explanation: It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in 2012 was visible almost no matter where you lived on Earth. Anyone on the planet with a clear western horizon at sunset could see them. Pictured here in 2012, a creative photo...
一项新的模拟显示，NASA的南希·格雷斯·罗曼太空望远镜将在2027年5月发射时，以前所未有的方式揭示宇宙的演变。凭借其快速成像广阔太空的能力，罗曼将帮助我们了解宇宙是如何从最初的带电粒子海洋转变为我们今天所看到的庞大宇宙结构的复杂网络。
2023年3月5日 Jupiter and Venus over Italy Image Credit & Copyright: Giovanni Tumino Explanation: What are those two bright spots? Planets. A few days ago, the two brightest planets in the night sky passed within a single degree of each other in what is termed a conjunction. Visible just after sunset in much of the world, the two bright spots were Jupiter (...
2023年3月4日 10 Days of Venus and Jupiter Image Credit & Copyright: Soumyadeep Mukherjee Explanation: Venus and Jupiter may have caught your attention lately. The impending close conjunction of the two brightest planets visible in clear evening skies has been hard to miss. With Jupiter at the top, starting on February 21 and ending on March 2, their close ...