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2024年1月12日 Good Morning Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Luy, Trier Observatory, TWAN Explanation: Yesterday, the Moon was New. But on January 9, early morning risers around planet Earth were treated to the sight of an old Moon, low in the east as the sky grew bright before dawn. Above the city of Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany, ...
2024年1月8日 The Phases of Venus Image Credit & License: Stéphane Gonzales Explanation: Venus goes through phases. Just like our Moon, Venus can appear as a full circular disk, a thin crescent, or anything in between. Venus, frequently the brightest object in the post-sunset or pre-sunrise sky, appears so small, however, that it usually requires binoculars ...
2023年11月16日 Daytime Moon Meets Morning Star Image Credit & Copyright: Katarzyna Kaczmarczyk Explanation: Venus now appears as Earth’s brilliant morning star, shining above the southeastern horizon before dawn. For early morning risers, the silvery celestial beacon rose predawn in a close pairing with a waning crescent Moon on Thursday, November 9....
2023年11月14日 Three Planets Rock Image Credit & Copyright: Giovanni Passalacqua; Text: Liz Coelho (Pikes Peak) Explanation: In the fading darkness before dawn, a tilted triangle appeared to balance atop a rock formation off the southern tip of Sicily. Making up the points of the triangle are three of the four brightest objects visible in Earth’s sky: Jupi...
2023年9月15日 Venus, Moon, and the Smoking Mountain Image Credit & Copyright: Luis Miguel Meade Rodríguez Explanation: Venus has returned as a brilliant morning star. From a window seat on a flight to Mexico City, the bright celestial beacon was captured just before sunrise in this astronomical snapshot, taken on September 12. Venus, at the upper right, sh...
2023年8月26日 Crescents of Venus Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Ortu Explanation: Just as the Moon goes through phases, Venus’ visible sunlit hemisphere waxes and wanes. This sequence of telescopic images illustrates the steady changes for Venus during its recent 2023 apparition as our evening star. Gliding along its interior orbit between Earth a...
八月的天空会发射什么？在黄昏和黎明看到土星，英仙座流星的回归，还有一颗“超级蓝月”。
2023年7月3日 Venus in Ultraviolet from Akatsuki Image Credit & Copyright: JAXA, Planet-C Project Team; h/t: Mehmet Hakan Özsaraç Explanation: Why is Venus so different from Earth? To help find out, Japan launched the robotic Akatsuki spacecraft which entered orbit around Venus late in 2015 after an unplanned five-year adventure around the inner Solar Syste...
七月的天空会发生什么？火星和金星分道扬镳，土星与一颗充满尘埃的年轻恒星一起巡游，这是观测银河系的黄金时段。
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...