保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
2021年11月20日 An Almost Total Lunar Eclipse Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Fedez Explanation: Predawn hours of November 19 found the Moon in partly cloudy skies over Cancun, Mexico. Captured in this telephoto snapshot, the lunar disk is not quite entirely immersed in Earth’s dark umbral shadow during a long partial lunar eclipse. The partial eclip...
2021年04月06日 Mars and the Pleiades Beyond Vinegar Hill Image Credit & Copyright: Kristine Richer Explanation: Is this just a lonely tree on an empty hill? To start, perhaps, but look beyond. There, a busy universe may wait to be discovered. First, physically, to the left of the tree, is the planet Mars. The red planet, which is the new home to NASA’...
2021年03月04日 Mars in Taurus Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in Opava Explanation: You can spot Mars in the evening sky tonight. Now home to the Perseverance rover, the Red Planet is presently wandering through the constellation Taurus, close on the sky to the Seven Sisters or Pleiades star cluster. In fact this deep, widefie...