As the International Space Station orbits the Earth, the crew makes observations of the universe and our home planet. This image taken from the space station shows the blue-green waters around the Bahamas, as shown in Space Station highlights for the week of Nov. 8, 2021. 当国际空间站绕地球运行时，宇航员对宇宙和我们的地球进行 […]
Chas Hoff, visited the Space Environments Facility in 2019 with a group of safety and mission assurance experts prior to testing of the Orion spacecraft. Credits: NASA 2019年于2019年与一组安全和任务保证专家一起参观了空间环境设施，随后对猎户座航天器进行了测试。 影像来源：NASA When Chas Hoff’s children started asking questions about his Native Ame
2021年11月16日 Geminids from Gemini Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Jin Explanation: Where are all of these meteors coming from? In terms of direction on the sky, the pointed answer is the constellation of Gemini. That is why the major meteor shower in December is known as the Geminids — becau
2021年11月15日 Light Pillar over Volcanic Etna Image Credit & Copyright: Giancarlo Tinè Explanation: What happening above that volcano? Something very unusual — a volcanic light pillar. More typically, light pillars are caused by sunlight and so appear as a bright column that extends upward
2021年11月14日 How to Identify that Light in the Sky Illustration Credit & Copyright: HK (The League of Lost Causes) Explanation: What is that light in the sky? Perhaps one of humanity’s more common questions, an answer may result from a few quick observations. For example — is it movi
2021年11月13日 Rosetta’s Comet in Gemini Image Credit & Copyright: Rolando Ligustri (CARA Project, CAST) Explanation: Returning along its 6.4 year orbit, periodic comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) is caught in this telescopic frame from November 7. Sweeping past background stars in the const
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer onboard, Wednesday, Nov.
2021年11月12日 M33: The Triangulum Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright: Bernard Miller Explanation: The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, M33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum Galaxy. M33 is over 50,000 light-ye
2021年11月11日 NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Sherick Explanation: NGC 1333 is seen in visible light as a reflection nebula, dominated by bluish hues characteristic of starlight reflected by interstellar dust. A mere 1,000 light-years distant toward the hero
During its 36th low pass over Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of striking cloud bands and swirls in the giant planet’s mid-southern latitudes. The dark, circular vortex near the center of the image is a cyclone that spans roughly 250 miles (about 400 kilometers). The color at its
