2022年11月6日 Dark Ball in Inverted Starfield Image Credit: Jim Lafferty Explanation: Does this strange dark ball look somehow familiar? If so, that might be because it is our Sun. In the featured image from 2012, a detailed solar view was captured originally in a very specific color of red light, then […]
Selected as an astronaut candidate in June 2013, Nicole A. Mann is the first Native American woman from NASA in space. In 2018, she was chosen as one of the nine astronauts to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon. In her first spaceflight, s
2022年11月4日 InSight’s Final Selfie Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Mars InSight Explanation: The Mars InSight lander returned its first image from the Red Planet’s flat, equatorial Elysium Planitia after a successful touchdown on November 26, 2018. The history making mission to explore t
Since 2015, scientists participating in NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) have been studying the impacts of climate change on Earth’s far northern regions and how those changes are intertwined. As our planet warms, permafrost—layers of soil that have stayed frozen for at least tw
2022年11月3日 M33: The Triangulum Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright: Processing – Robert Gendler Data – Hubble Legacy Archive, KPNO, NOIRLab, NSF, Aura, Amateur Sources Explanation: The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, M33. Its popu
This peculiar portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. NGC 1999 is around 1,350 light-years from Earth and lies near the Orion Nebula, the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. NGC 1999 itself is a relic of rec
2022年11月2日 A Partial Eclipse of an Active Sun Video Credit: Ralf Burkart; h/t Maciej Libert (AG) Explanation: Watch for three things in this unusual eclipse video. First, watch for a big dark circle to approach from the right to block out more and more of the Sun. This dark circle is the Moon, and t
这张由NASA毅力号拍摄的带注释图像显示了第一个样品库的位置——火星车将在那里存放一组样品管，以便将来可能送返地球——位于耶泽罗陨石坑的一个叫三岔口的区域。这张照片拍摄于2022年8月29日。 影像来源：NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA的毅力号火星车将在火星上建立第一个样品库。 10月19日，NASA与其合作伙伴欧洲航天局（ESA）签署了一项正式协议，这一史无前例的从火星返回科学选择样本计划迈出了重要一步。这两个机构将着手在火星上建立一个样品管仓库。样品仓库或储藏室将位于三岔口，这是一个位于耶泽罗陨石坑一个古老河流三角洲底部附近的区域。 这个样品仓库将包含从火星表面精心挑选的岩石中提
