2024年2月2日 NGC 1893 and the Tadpoles of IC 410 Image Credit & Copyright: Sander de Jong Explanation: This cosmic view shows off an otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410, captured under clear Netherlands skies with telescope and narrowband filters. Above and right of center you can spot two remar […]
2024年2月1日 NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe Image Credit & Copyright: Processing – Jean-Baptiste Auroux, Data – Mike Selby Explanation: Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe some 200,000 light-years across. Located a mere 60 million light-years away towar
2024年1月31日 Camera Orion Rising Image Credit & Copyright: Marcin Ślipko Explanation: What does Orion rising look like to a camera? During this time of the year, the famous constellation is visible to the southeast just after sunset. From most Earthly locations, Orion’s familiar star patter
2024年1月30日 SLIM Lands on the Moon Image Credit & Copyright: JAXA, Takara Tomy, Sony Co., Doshisha U. Explanation: New landers are on the Moon. Nearly two weeks ago, Japan‘s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) released two rovers as it descended, before its main lander touched down i
2024年1月29日 The Pleiades: Seven Dusty Sisters Image Credit & Copyright: Craig Stocks Explanation: The well-known Pleiades star cluster is slowly destroying part of a passing cloud of gas and dust. The Pleiades is the brightest open cluster of stars on Earth’s sky and can be seen from almost
2024年1月28日 Pluto in True Color Image Credit: NASA, JHU APL, SwRI; Processing: Alex Parker Explanation: What color is Pluto, really? It took some effort to figure out. Even given all of the images sent back to Earth when the robotic New Horizons spacecraft sped past Pluto in 2015, processing these mu
2024年1月26日 Epsilon Tauri: Star with Planet Image Credit & Copyright: Reg Pratt Explanation: Epsilon Tauri lies 146 light-years away. A K-type red giant star, epsilon Tau is cooler than the Sun, but with about 13 times the solar radius it has nearly 100 times the solar luminosity. A member of the
2024年1月25日 Jyväskylä in the Sky Image Credit & Copyright: Harri Kiiskinen Explanation: You might not immediately recognize this street map of a neighborhood in Jyväskylä, Finland, planet Earth. But that’s probably because the map was projected into the night sky and captured with an allsky
2024年1月24日 Earth and Moon from Beyond Image Credit: NASA, Artemis I; Processing: Andy Saunders Explanation: What do the Earth and Moon look like from beyond the Moon? Although frequently photographed together, the familiar duo was captured with this unusual perspective in late 2022 by the robotic Or
