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6月份的天空会发生什么？ 影像来源：NASA/JPL-Caltech 翻译：灼眼的粉丝 火星和金星，夏天的星星，还有夏至！ 随着北半球夏季明亮的行星升起，战争和爱情的行星每晚都越来越近。请注意21号的夏至。 月度亮点 6月1日至2日——火星位于蜂巢星团（M44）。天黑后在西方寻找这颗红色的行星，双筒望远镜或小型望远镜会在这个开放的星团中发现一个闪闪发光的恒星背景。 6月3日——满月 6月18日——新月 6月21日——今晚新月与金星和火星组成一个可爱的组合。日落后在西方找到它们。 6月21日——夏至。对北方来说，这是一年中白昼时间最长的一天，因为太阳在天空中的轨迹最高、最长。南半球的情况正好相反，在寒冷的冬季，南半球一年中白昼时间最短的一天。 整月——日落之后，火星和金星在西方天空的每个夜晚都越来越近。每晚这对双...
2023年6月2日 Messier 101 Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CFHT, NOAO; Acknowledgement – K.Kuntz (GSFC), F.Bresolin (U.Hawaii), J.Trauger (JPL), J.Mould (NOAO), Y.-H.Chu (U. Illinois) Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier’s famous catalog, but definitely not one of the least. About 170,000 light-years ac...
The VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) engineering test team uses lunar soil simulants and hand-picked rocks to carefully shape the terrain to realistically mimic actual features at the surface of the Moon’s South Pole at in the SLOPE Lab – short for Simulated Lunar Operations Laboratory at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cle...
2023年6月1日 Recycling Cassiopeia A Image Credit: X-ray – NASA, CXC, SAO; Optical – NASA,STScI Explanation: Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After a few million years, the enriched material is blasted back into int...
Hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963, Josephine Jue was a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who worked for the agency for more than 30 years. Of her notable contributions, in the mid-1970s she oversaw development of the HAL/S compiler for the Space Shuttle. See more of the brilliant Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and...