大麦哲伦星云中的绿松石羽流

大麦哲伦星云中的绿松石羽流

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In this image from 2014, brightly glowing plumes of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) appear almost like an ocean current with turquoise-tinted currents and nebulous strands reaching out into the surroundings. This image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula’s outskirts located within the LMC, a small nearby galaxy that orbits the Milky Way and appears as a blurred blob in our skies. The Hubble Space Telescope has peeked many times into this galaxy, releasing stunning images of the whirling clouds of gas and sparkling stars. In most images of the LMC the color is completely different to that seen here. For this image, researchers substituted the customary R filter, which selects the red light, and replaced it by a filter letting through the near-infrared light….

CAPSTONE向月球轨道发射

CAPSTONE向月球轨道发射

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A NASA CubeSat designed to test a unique lunar orbit is safely in space and on the first leg of its journey to the Moon. The spacecraft is heading toward an orbit intended in the future for Gateway, a lunar space station built by the agency and its commercial and international partners that will support NASA’s Artemis program, including astronaut missions. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, mission launched at 5:55 a.m. EDT Tuesday, June 28, 2022, on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand. Image Credit: Courtesy of Rocket Lab NASA的立方体卫星（CubeSat）设计用于测试一个独特的月球轨道，目前它在太空中安全运行，并进入了月球之旅的第一段路程。该航天器正朝着未来计划用于门户（Gateway）的轨道前进，门户是该机构及其商业和国际合作伙伴建造的一个月球空间站，将支持NASA的阿尔忒弥斯项目，包括宇航员任务。 2022年6月28日，周二，在新西兰马希亚半岛的火箭实验室1号发射场，地月自主定位系统技术操作和导航实验（或称CAPSTONE）搭载火箭实验室的电子火箭发射升空。 影像来源：Courtesy of Rocket Lab

公共事务专家泰龙·麦考伊

公共事务专家泰龙·麦考伊

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“A piece of my story that I think needs to get told is that broken crayons still color. “So often we hear that there’s this cycle of hurt, and hurt people hurt people, and if you came from something, you have to be a product of your environment. “I do feel like, in a lot of ways, we are, whether you want to be or not. The people that raise you give you a bag, and they put things in it, and you carry those things with you, good or bad, for the rest of your life. But just because my dad struggled with addiction and just because my mom wasn’t always there didn’t mean that I had to be either of those things. “I…

CAPSTONE计划发射到月球轨道

CAPSTONE计划发射到月球轨道

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CAPSTONE, the pathfinder for NASA’s lunar outpost, will test an orbit around the Moon that has never been flown before. In this image from April 2022, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, was undergoing final construction – and with solar panel installation and vibration testing now complete, the small satellite was shipped to its launch location in New Zealand. CAPSTONE is slated to launch on Monday, June 27, aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. Live coverage will begin at 5 a.m. EDT on NASA Television, the agency’s website, and the NASA app. The destination for this microwave oven-size CubeSat is a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO). That same orbit…

镜面校准：韦伯望远镜的第一张全彩图像将于7月发布

镜面校准：韦伯望远镜的第一张全彩图像将于7月发布

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After completing two additional mirror alignment steps in March 2022, the team confirmed the James Webb Space Telescope’s optical performance will be able to meet or exceed the science goals the observatory was built to achieve. This “selfie” was created using a specialized pupil imaging lens inside of Webb’s Near Infrared Camera, or NIRCam, instrument, which was designed to take images of the primary mirror segments instead of images of the sky. This configuration is not used during scientific operations and is used strictly for engineering and alignment purposes. In this image, all of Webb’s 18 primary mirror segments are shown collecting light from the same star in unison. Now, we’re counting down to the release of the Webb Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic…

像亮片一样的星辰大海

像亮片一样的星辰大海

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The Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittering scene using its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. Globular clusters are stable, tightly bound groups of tens of thousands to millions of stars. As this image demonstrates, the hearts of globular clusters are densely packed with stars. Terzan 9 is dotted with so many glittering stars that it resembles a sea of sequins. This starry snapshot is from a Hubble program investigating globular clusters located toward the heart of the Milky Way, in which its central region holds a tightly packed group of stars known as the galactic bulge, an area rich in interstellar dust. This dust makes globular clusters near the galaxy’s center difficult to study, as it absorbs starlight and can even…

查看太空的颜色

查看太空的颜色

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Attendees try on Oculus headsets and experience the International Space Station using virtual reality prior to a special screening of the NASA-produced documentary “The Color of Space” at Howard University’s Cramton Auditorium in Washington, Saturday, June 18, 2022. Officially premiering for the public on Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, “The Color of Space” is an inspirational documentary that tells the stories of NASA’s Black astronauts determined to reach the stars. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls 2022年6月18日，星期六，在华盛顿霍华德大学克拉姆顿礼堂举行的NASA制作的纪录片《太空的颜色》特别放映之前，与会者试用Oculus耳机，并使用虚拟现实体验国际空间站。 6月10日是纪念美国奴隶制结束的联邦假日，《太空的颜色》正式首映，这是一部鼓舞人心的纪录片，讲述了NASA黑人宇航员决心登上星球的故事。 影像来源：NASA/Bill Ingalls

加尔维斯顿和六月节的开始

加尔维斯顿和六月节的开始

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The issue of General Order No. 3 by Union troops on June 19, 1865, marked the official end of slavery in Texas and the U.S. On that Monday, enslaved African Americans in Texas learned of their freedom. That day of liberation became known as Juneteenth, when the Emancipation Proclamation was announced by Union troops in Galveston, Texas. On Thursday, June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in this year’s Juneteenth Workforce Message: “Last year, President Biden signed legislation into law that established June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day – a federal holiday. On this day, we reckon with the moral stain of slavery on our country. We reflect on centuries of…

进步骄傲旗在NASA总部飘扬

进步骄傲旗在NASA总部飘扬

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The Progress Pride flag is seen flying at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building, Thursday, June 9, 2022, in Washington, DC. In recognition of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, the Progress Pride flag will be flown outside of the agency’s headquarters for the month of June. Image Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky 2022年6月9日，星期四，华盛顿特区，进步骄傲旗在玛丽·杰克逊NASA总部大楼飘扬。为表彰LGBTQ+自豪月，6月份将在NASA总部外悬挂进步骄傲旗。 影像来源：NASA/Joel Kowsky

遥远星系的光芒

遥远星系的光芒

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The brilliant cascade of stars through the middle of this image is the galaxy ESO 318-13 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this image from 2012. Despite being located millions of light-years from Earth, the stars captured in this image are so bright and clear one could almost attempt to count them. ESO 318-13 is sandwiched between a vast collection of bright celestial objects. Several stars near and far dazzle in comparison to the neat dusting contained within the galaxy. One that particularly stands out is located near the center of the image, and looks like an extremely bright star located within the galaxy. This is, however, a trick of perspective. The star is located in the Milky Way, our own galaxy, and…