保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
2023年9月30日 A Harvest Moon over Tuscany Image Credit & Copyright: Antonio Tartarini Explanation: For northern hemisphere dwellers, September’s Full Moon was the Harvest Moon. Reflecting warm hues at sunset, it rises behind cypress trees huddled on a hill top in Tuscany, Italy in this telephoto view from September 28. Famed in festival, story, and s...
2023年9月29日 Back from Bennu Image Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber Explanation: Back from asteroid 101955 Bennu, a 110-pound, 31-inch wide sample return capsule rests in a desert on planet Earth in this photo, taken at the Department of Defense Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City last Sunday, September 24. Dropped off by the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft, the ...
2023年9月28日 The Deep Lagoon Image Credit & Copyright: Josep Drudis, Christian Sasse Explanation: Ridges of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds inhabit the turbulent, cosmic depths of the Lagoon Nebula. Also known as M8, The bright star forming region is about 5,000 light-years distant. It makes for a popular stop on telescopic tours of the cons...
2023年9月27日 STEVE and Milky Way Cross over Rural Road Image Credit & Copyright: Theresa Clarke Explanation: Not every road ends in a STEVE. A week ago, a sky enthusiast’s journey began with a goal: to photograph an aurora over Lake Huron. Driving through rural Ontario, Canada, the forecasted sky show started unexpectedly early, causing the photogra...
一个新的时间序列显示了海山二从1999年到2020年的变化。
A turtle moves through a waterway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 4, 2017. The center shares a border with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. More than 330 native and migratory bird species, 25 mammals, 117 fishes, and 65 amphibians and reptiles call Kennedy and the wildlife refuge home. Image Credit: NASA/Bill White 2017年5月4...
2023年9月26日 IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Antoine & Dalia Grelin Explanation: Do you see the horse’s head? What you are seeing is not the famous Horsehead nebula toward Orion, but rather a fainter nebula that only takes on a familiar form with deeper imaging. The main part of the here-imaged molecular ...
The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The Bennu sample – an estimated 8.8 ounces, or 250 grams – will...
2023年9月25日 Arp 142: The Hummingbird Galaxy Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Processing & Copyright: Basudeb Chakrabarti Explanation: What’s happening to this spiral galaxy? Just a few hundred million years ago, NGC 2936, the upper of the two large galaxies shown at the bottom, was likely a normal spiral galaxy — spinning, creating stars...
经过NASA OSIRIS-REx(起源，光谱解释，资源识别和安全-风化层探测器)团队多年的期待和努力工作，从小行星贝努收集的岩石和尘埃的胶囊终于到达了地球。它于周日上午8点52分（美国东部时间上午10:52）降落在盐湖城附近的国防部犹他州测试训练场的目标区域。