2023年11月1日 Annular Solar Eclipse over Utah Image Credit & Copyright: MaryBeth Kiczenski Explanation: Part of the Sun disappeared earlier this month, but few people were worried. The missing part, which included the center from some locations, just went behind the Moon in what is known as an ann […]
On Sept. 7, 2023, during its 54th close flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of an area in the giant planet’s far northern regions called Jet N7. The image shows turbulent clouds and storms along Jupiter’s terminator, the dividing line between the day and night sides of the plane
Iron-rich sediment colors the red-orange waters of the Betsiboka River Delta in Madagascar in this image taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station on Sept. 30, 2023. The sediment can clog waterways in the delta’s estuarial environment, but it can also form new islands that become colo
2023年10月31日 Halloween and the Wizard Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Richard McInnis Explanation: Halloween’s origin is ancient and astronomical. Since the fifth century BC, Halloween has been celebrated as a cross-quarter day, a day halfway between an equinox (equal day / equal night) a
2023年10月30日 Reflections of the Ghost Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Bogdan Jarzyna Explanation: Do any shapes seem to jump out at you from this interstellar field of stars and dust? The jeweled expanse, filled with faint, starlight-reflecting clouds, drifts through the night in the royal cons
Maricela Lizcano poses inside NASA Glenn Research Center’s Aerospace Communications Facility. Credit: NASA/Bridget Caswell Maricela Lizcano never dreamed of working for NASA. In fact, she wasn’t planning on furthering her education until she had a revelation in her late twenties. “I was watching one
2023年10月28日 The Ghosts of Gamma Cas Image Credit & Copyright: Guillaume Gruntz, Jean-François Bax Explanation: Gamma Cassiopeiae shines high in northern autumn evening skies. It’s the brightest spiky star in this telescopic field of view toward the constellation Cassiopeia. Gamma Cas shar
