Teams at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, recently completed stress testing on the Navy’s F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River, Maryland. The Super Hornet is seen here in a top view from March 2022 while in a […]
2022年11月1日 NGC 6357: The Lobster Nebula Image Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA; Processing: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), J. Miller (Gemini Obs./NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab) Explanation: Why is the Lobster Nebula forming some of the most massive
While observing the outer region of the Milky Way galaxy, our Spitzer Telescope captured this infrared image of a cloud of gas and dust that looks like the hollowed-out pumpkins we see every Halloween. Nicknamed the “Jack-o’-Lantern Nebula,” it was likely created by powerful outflows of radiation an
2022年10月31日 LDN 43: The Cosmic Bat Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby; Text: Michelle Thaller (NASA’s GSFC) Explanation: What is the most spook-tacular nebula in the galaxy? One contender is LDN 43, which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flyin
2022年10月30日 Night on a Spooky Planet Image Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Vetter (Nuits sacrées) Explanation: What spooky planet is this? Planet Earth of course, on a dark and stormy night in 2013 at Hverir, a geothermally active area along the volcanic landscape in northeastern Iceland. Triggere
NASA的詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜拍摄到的创生之柱的中红外照片令人不寒而栗。存在于这一区域的数千颗恒星似乎消失了，因为恒星通常不会发出太多中红外光，而看似无穷无尽的气体和尘埃层成为了中心。韦布中红外仪器（MIRI）对尘埃的探测非常重要，因为尘埃是恒星形成的主要成分。 影像来源：NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI) 这不是被时间遗忘的坟墓的空灵风景。这些沾满烟尘的手指也不会伸出来。这些充满气体和尘埃的星柱，遮蔽了几千年来慢慢形成的恒星。NASA的詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜在中红外光下拍下了这张奇异的
2022年10月29日 LDN 673: Dark Clouds in Aquila Image Credit & Copyright: Frank Sackenheim, Josef Poepsel, Stefan Binnewies (Capella Observatory Team) Explanation: Part of a dark expanse that splits the crowded plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the Aquila Rift arcs through planet Earth’s skies ne
Our James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new image of the famous Pillars of Creation—first imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995—that reveals new details about the region. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations but are far more permeable. These columns are made
On Oct. 13, 2022, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and the Moon from 890,000 miles (1.4 million km) away. The image was taken as part of an instrument calibration sequence as the spacecraft approached Earth for its first of three Earth gravity assists. These Earth flybys provi
2022年10月28日 Seven Years of Halley Dust Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in Opava Explanation: History’s first known periodic comet Halley (1P/Halley) returns to the inner Solar System every 75 years or so. The famous comet made its last appearance to the naked
