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2020年9月30日 Sonified: Eagle Nebula Pillars Image Credit: NASA, ESA, & The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Sonification: NASA, CXC, SAO, K. Arcand, M. Russo & A. Santaguida Explanation: Yes, but have you ever experienced the Eagle Nebula with your ears ? The famous nebula, M16, is best known for the feast it gives your eyes, highlighting bright yo...
来源:NASA NASA和SpaceX开始了一项常规任务，宇航员乘坐美国火箭从美国本土前往国际空间站，这是NASA商业宇航员计划的一部分。NASA的SpaceX Crew-1任务是首次有四名宇航员乘坐商业飞船执行宇航员轮换任务，也是第一次有国际合作伙伴参与。 SpaceX的Crew-1正式宇航员照片(左起)，照片中有NASA的宇航员香农·沃克、维克多·格洛弗、迈克·霍普金斯和日本宇宙航空研究开发机构(JAXA)的宇航员野口宗一。 来源：NASA NASA宇航员迈克尔·霍普金斯、维克多·格洛弗、香农·沃克和日本宇宙航空研究开发机构(JAXA)的野口宗一将通过SpaceX的猎鹰9号火箭和载人龙飞船前往空间站。 Crew-1宇航员将飞船命名为“恢复力（Resilience）”，突出了参与此次任务的团队所表现出的奉献精...
Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor examines her eye with a fundoscope aboard the International Space Station with remote support from doctors on the ground. As a member of the Expedition 56/57 crew in 2018, she participated in many onboard experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science aboard the station Dr. Auñón-Chancellor was sel...
2020年9月29日 GW Orionis: A Star System with Tilted Rings Animation Illustration Credit: ESO, U. Exeter, S. Kraus et al., L. Calçada Explanation: Triple star system GW Orionis appears to demonstrate that planets can form and orbit in multiple planes. In contrast, all the planets and moons in our Solar System orbit in nearly the same plane. The picturesque syste...
Pictured is the Soyuz MS-16 crew ship, currently docked to the International Space Station’s Poisk module. The is the same spacecraft that launched, and will bring home, Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy, Soyuz Commander Anatoly Ivanishin, and cosmonaut Ivan Vagner. Expedition 63 will depart the station and land in Kazakhstan on Oct. 21, 2020. Imag...
2020年9月28日 Filaments of the Cygnus Loop Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Blair; Acknowledgement: Leo Shatz Explanation: What lies at the edge of an expanding supernova? Subtle and delicate in appearance, these ribbons of shocked interstellar gas are part of a blast wave at the expanding edge of a violent stellar explosion that would have been easily ...
Resting on the tail of the Great Bear in the constellation of Ursa Major lies NGC 5585, a spiral galaxy that is more than it appears. The many stars and clouds of dust and gas that make up NGC 5585, shown here in this Hubble image, contribute only a small fraction of the total mass of the galaxy. As in many galaxies, this discrepancy can be explained by the ...
阿耳忒弥斯（Artemis）计划的一项更新；下一批空间站机组人员进行任务训练；为空间探索而合作……最近新闻速递，尽在「本周NASA」！ Credit：NASA NASA发布了阿耳忒弥斯计划，在2024年送第一位女性和下一位男性登上月球。这项计划包括有关2023年阿耳忒弥斯2号（Artemis II）任务期间进行的一项新测试的详细信息，届时宇航员将手动驾驶猎户座（Orion）飞船查看它在太空中的运行情况。NASA局长吉姆·布里登斯坦（Jim Bridenstine）在9月23日的美国参议院拨款听证会上讨论了NASA的计划和预算。布里登斯坦说：“今天在众议院和参议院面前的预算是一项非常强有力的预算，我认为这是最终能使我们以前所未有的方式将人类推向太阳系的预算。”第一项无宇航员的阿尔忒弥斯任务是阿耳忒弥斯1号（Art...
2020年9月27日 Lightning over Colorado Image Credit & Copyright: Joe Randall Explanation: Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? Join the crowd. Oddly, details about how lightning is produced remains a topic of research. What is known is that updrafts carry light ice crystals into collisions with larger and softer ice balls, causing the smaller cry...
NASA周五发布了其有史以来第一份全机构范围经济影响报告的结果。该报告显示，通过NASA的所有活动，该机构在2019财年创造了超过643亿美元的经济总产值， 在全国范围内支持了超过312,000个工作岗位，并在全美创造了约70亿美元的联邦、州和地方税收。 “在载人航空的新时代，NASA正在为当地和全国的经济做出贡献，推动将定义未来的行业发展，并为美国提供成千上万的新就业机会。”NASA局长吉姆·布莱登 斯汀说，“NASA每年只投入联邦预算的1％的一半，就能产生可观的经济产出。这项研究证实并用数字证明了我们长期以来的认识，那就是纳税人对美国太空计划 的投资产生了巨大的回报，在几个方面加强了我们国家的实力，包括更强大的经济、科学技术以及人类的进步。” 该机构委托进行了一项经济影响研究，以更好地了解2019财年美国经...