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2021年06月30日 Simulation: Formation of the First Stars Video Credit: Harley Katz (U. Oxford) et al. Explanation: How did the first stars form? To help find out, the SPHINX computer simulation of star formation in the very early universe was created, some results of which are shown in the featured video. Time since the Big Bang is shown in millions of years on ...
NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane is designed to fly faster than the speed of sound without producing sonic booms – those loud, startling noises which can be disruptive to humans and animals. Currently, commercial aircraft aren’t allowed to fly faster than the speed of sound over land because of the objectionable sonic booms they cause fo...
2021年06月29日 Orion Nebula: The Hubble View Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing: Francisco Javier Pobes Serrano Explanation: Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula. Also known as M42, the nebula’s glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-ye...
This composite image made from seven frames shows the International Space Station, with a crew of seven onboard, in silhouette as it transits the Sun at roughly five miles per second, Friday, June 25, 2021, from near Nellysford, Va. Onboard are Expedition 65 NASA astronauts Megan McArthur, Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough, ESA (European Space Agency) astronau...
2021年06月28日 A Paper Moon Solar Eclipse Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night) Explanation: It may look like a paper Moon. Sailing past a canvas Sun. But those are not cardboard clouds. And it’s not make believe. The featured picture of an orange colored sky is real — a digital composite of two exposures of the solar eclipse th...
2021年06月27日 The Dancing Auroras of Saturn Image Credit: NASA, Cassini, VIMS Team, U. Arizona, U. Leicester, JPL, ASI Explanation: What drives auroras on Saturn? To help find out, scientists have sorted through hundreds of infrared images of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft for other purposes, trying to find enough aurora images to correlate changes and...
2021年06月26日 Pixels in the Sun Image Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night) Explanation: These two panels, composed of video frames made with a safe solar telescope and hydrogen alpha filter, show remarkably sharp details on the solar disk and giant prominences along the Sun’s edge on June 6 (top) and June 18. Taken from Beijing, China, th...
A cataclysmic cosmic collision takes center stage in this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image features the interacting galaxy pair IC 1623, which lies around 275 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (the Whale). The two galaxies are in the final stages of merging, and astronomers expect a powerful inflow of gas to i...
2021年06月25日 Andromeda in a Single Shot Image Credit & Copyright: Miguel Claro (TWAN, Dark Sky Alqueva) Explanation: How far can you see? The Andromeda Galaxy, 2.5 million light years away, is the most distant object easily seen by the unaided eye. Other denizens of the night sky, like stars, clusters, and nebulae, are typically hundreds to thousands of ...
类星体是非常明亮、遥远、活跃的超大质量黑洞，质量是太阳的数百万到数十亿倍。它们通常位于星系的中心，以坠落的物质为食，并释放出奇妙的辐射洪流。类星体是宇宙中最亮的天体之一，类星体的光芒超过了其所在星系中所有恒星的总和，其喷流和风塑造了它所在的星系。 这是一个以明亮的类星体为中心的星系的艺术概念。类星体是一个非常明亮、遥远、活跃的超大质量黑洞，其质量是太阳的数百万到数十亿倍。类星体是宇宙中最亮的天体之一，类星体的光芒超过了其所在星系中所有恒星的总和。类星体以坠落的物质为食，释放出大量的风和辐射，塑造了它们所在的星系。利用韦伯的独特能力，科学家们将研究宇宙中最遥远、最明亮的6个类星体。 影像来源：NASA, ESA and J. Olmsted (STScI) 在今年晚些时候发射后不久，科学家团队将训练NASA的詹姆...