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2020年11月11日 Colors of the Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace Explanation: What color is the Moon? It depends on the night. Outside of the Earth’s atmosphere, the dark Moon, which shines by reflected sunlight, appears a magnificently brown-tinged gray. Viewed from inside the Earth’s atmosphere, though, the moon can appear quit...
十月会发生什么?，一轮秋月以及蓝月，火星通宵达旦和一场穿越银河系的旅行。 Credit：NASA JPL 翻译：莫辞莫问的莫、林子杰 不仅一个，在月初和月未，这个月将带来两个圆满月。十月一日的满月被称作收获月，收获月是满月的名字，它最接近九月春分。每年两天中的一天，白天和黑夜长度相等。大多数年的收获月在九月落下，但每隔几年，它就会转移到10月。这个名字可以追溯到美洲原住民和欧洲传统，与收获时间有关。 Credit：NASA JPL Credit：NASA JPL 十月底，三十一号，我们将享受第二次满月。当一个月内有两次满月时，第二个满月往往被称作蓝月，蓝月还有另外一个更为传统的定义，但这是最为人熟知的。请注意这是2020年仅有的两次满月。 Credit：NASA JPL 十月是观察火星的好时机，因为这颗行星现在...
2020年10月02日 Biking to the Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Susan Snow Explanation: As you watched October’s first Full Moon rise last night, the Full Moon closest to the northern autumnal equinox, you were probably asking yourself, “How long would it take to bike to the Moon?” Sure, Apollo 11 astronauts made the trip in 1969, from launch...
2020 May 9 Full Flower Moonrise Image Credit & Copyright: Tiziano Boldrini Explanation: Rising as the Sun set, the Moon was bright and full in planet Earth skies on May 7 and known to some as a Flower Moon. Near the horizon it does seem to take on rose pink hues of reddened sunlight in this reflective twilight scene. In fact one of the brighter Full Moo...
2020 May 7 Analemma of the Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Gyorgy Soponyai Explanation: An analemma is that figure-8 curve you get when you mark the position of the Sun at the same time each day for one year. But the trick to imaging an analemma of the Moon is to wait bit longer. On average the Moon returns to the same position in the sky about 50 minute...
2020 April 10 Full Moon of Spring Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN) Explanation: From home this Full Moon looked bright. Around our fair planet it rose as the Sun set on April 7/8, the first Full Moon after the vernal equinox and the start of northern hemisphere spring. April’s full lunar phase was also near perigee, the closest point in t...
2019 September 13 A Harvest Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Jean-Francois Graffand Explanation: Famed in festival, story, and song the best known full moon is the Harvest Moon. For northern hemisphere dwellers that’s a traditional name of the closest full moon to the September equinox. In most North America time zones this year’s Harvest Moon ...
2019 June 18 海神庙上空的草莓月 影像来源和版权: Elias Chasiotis 说明：你昨晚看到满月了吗？如果没有，今晚的满月几乎和昨晚一样美丽。因为满月正对着太阳，所以当太阳没有出现时，满月在天空中是可见的，如果天气许可的话，应该几乎一整夜都能看到。六月的满月被昵称为草莓月，它是以那时地球北半球部分地区开始成熟的野生草莓而命名的。然而，全世界不同的文化赋予了这轮满月不同的名称，包括蜜月和玫瑰月。在这幅昨天从希腊.苏尼翁海岬拍摄的特征影像中，前景是具有2400年历史的海神庙。下个月将是人类首次登月的50周年纪念日。 Strawberry Moon over the Temple of Poseidon Image Credit & Copyright: Elias Chasiotis E...