2022年9月15日 Harvest Moon over Sicily Image Credit & Copyright: Dario Giannobile Explanation: For northern hemisphere dwellers, September’s Full Moon was the Harvest Moon. Reflecting warm hues at sunset it rises over the historic town of Castiglione di Sicilia in this telephoto view from Se […]
A little blue heron is seen in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building as preparations for launch continue, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft,
影像来源：X射线：NASA/CXC/GSFC/B. J. Williams et al.；可见光：NASA/ESA/STScI 虽然天文学家已经看到了银河系和附近星系中数十颗爆炸恒星的碎片，但通常很难确定恒星消亡的时间线。通过使用NASA望远镜研究邻近星系中壮观的超新星遗迹，一组天文学家已经找到了足够的线索来帮助时光倒流。 超新星遗迹SNR 0519-69.0（简称SNR 059）是白矮星爆炸产生的碎片。在达到临界质量后，无论是从伴星中吸取物质还是与另一颗白矮星合并，恒星都经历了热核爆炸并被摧毁。科学家们将这种被称为Ia型的超新星用于广泛的科学研究，从热核爆炸研究到测量数十亿光年的星系距离。
European Space Agency astronaut Samatha Cristoforetti captured a photo of a portion of China’s Tanggula Mountains near Hala Lake as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above the Earth on Sept. 5, 2022. Since the station began hosting human astronauts in November 2000, crew member
2022年9月13日 A Long Snaking Filament on the Sun Image Credit & Copyright: Alan Friedman (Averted Imagination) Explanation: Earlier this month, the Sun exhibited one of the longer filaments on record. Visible as the bright curving streak around the image center, the snaking filament’s full e
On Sept. 12, 1962, President Kennedy spoke before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in Houston. During his speech, the President recommitted the nation to the Moon landing goal he proposed to Congress in May 1961, rallying the nation to land astronauts on the Moon before the end of the dec
This nighttime photograph from the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited 261 miles above Earth looks across the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa to southern Europe. The city lights of Algiers, Algeria to Tunis, Tunisia highlight Africa’s northern coast from the bottom center towar
2022年9月12日 Red Sprite Lightning over the Czech Republic Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Ščerba Explanation: What are those red filaments in the sky? They are a rarely seen form of lightning confirmed only about 35 years ago: red sprites. Research has shown that following a powerful positive cl
2022年9月11日 Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins Video Credit: NASA, Animation: James O’Donoghue (JAXA) Explanation: How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The featured video animates NASA images of all eigh
