2019 December 23 Places for OSIRIS-REx to Touch Asteroid Bennu Video Credit: NASA, GSFC, U. Arizona, SVS, OSIRIS-REx Explanation: Where is the best place to collect a surface sample from asteroid Bennu? Launched in 2016, NASA sent the robotic Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification […]
2019 December 22 Solstice Illuminated: A Year of Sky Video Credit & Copyright: Ken Murphy (MurphLab); Music: Ariel (Moby) Explanation: Can you find which day is the winter solstice? Each panel shows one day. With 360 movie panels, the sky over (almost) an entire year is shown in time lapse forma
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 2051, a galaxy in the southern constellation of Mensa (the Table Mountain) lying about 85 million light-years away. It is a spiral galaxy, as evidenced by its characteristic whirling, pinwheeling arms, and it has a bar of stars slicing thr
2019 December 21 Solstice to Solstice Solargraph Timelapse Image Credit & Copyright: Sam Cornwell Explanation: The 2019 December Solstice, on the first day of winter in planet Earth’s northern hemisphere and summer in the south, is at 4:19 Universal Time December 22. That’s December
北京时间12月20日7时36分，宇宙神5型运载火箭点火，CST-100星际线飞船升空。 Credit：NASA/Joel Kowsky NASA局长Jim Bridenstine称：“由于波音公司的星际线飞船的任务运行时间（MET）出现异常，导致飞船错误地认为它已经进入了轨道机动，导致飞船的燃料消耗过多，以至于无法与空间站对接。” 波音公司称：“飞船看起来状态良好，目前处于一个安全的轨道，并期望能够着陆。” Credit：NASA [rml_read_more] 未来的48小时内，NASA和波音团队的着陆和回收团队，将努力使星际线飞船着陆在白沙导弹试验场。最新消息将在右边链接进行发布，http
2019 December 20 Late Afternoon on Mars Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Marco Di Lorenzo Explanation: Shadows grow long near sunset in this wide panoramic view from the Curiosity rover on Mars. Made with Curiosity’s navcam, the scene covers about 200 degrees from north through east to south (
This week in 1999, space shuttle Discovery, mission STS-103, launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on the third Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. Over the course of three planned extravehicular activities, the STS-103 crew restored Hubble to working order and upgraded some of its systems
波音公司的无人轨道飞行测试(OFT)是美国国家航空航天局商业乘务计划的第二次无人飞行测试，该计划与航空航天工业合作，自2011年以来首次在美国本土用美国火箭和宇宙飞船发射宇航员。 10月16日，波音公司的CST-100星际飞船的乘员舱在佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心的商业乘员和货物处理设施(C3PF)内被送上服务舱，这是该公司飞往国际空间站的轨道飞行测试的一部分，也是NASA商业乘员计划的一部分。 来源:Boeing 12月20日，当波音公司的Starliner航天飞机搭乘美国联合发射联盟的“阿特拉斯5号”火箭从佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角空军基地的航天发射场41号发射中心发射升空时，研究太空中物体运动规
As the holiday season approaches, people in the northern hemisphere will gather indoors to stay warm. In keeping with the season, astronomers have studied two groups of galaxies that are rushing together and producing their own warmth. The majority of galaxies do not exist in isolation. Rather, they
iss061e077393 (Dec. 12, 2019) — The Canadarm2 robotic arm with the Dextre robotic hand attached seemingly protrudes from the side of the International Space Station as the orbiting complex soared 263 miles above the South Pacific Ocean. iss061e077393(2019年12月12日)——当环绕地球飞行的国际空间站在南太平洋上空263英里的高空飞
