保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
This image shows the Highfield drill hole, on Vera Rubin Ridge in Gale crater on Mars, made by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Just recently, scientists announced that an analysis of rock samples collected by the rover were enriched in carbon 12, a type of carbon that on Earth is associated with biological processes. 这张图片显示了由美国宇航局好奇号火星车在火星盖尔陨石坑的维拉鲁宾岭上的海菲尔德钻孔。就在最近，科学...
This image, captured by the Landsat 8 satellite, shows the view over Western Australia on May 12, 2013. The image shows rich sediment and nutrient patterns in a tropical estuary area and complex patterns and conditions in vegetated areas. 这张由地球资源卫星8号拍摄的图像显示了2013年5月12日澳大利亚西部的景色。该图像显示了热带河口地区丰富的沉积物和养分模式以及植被区的复杂模式和条件。 The image is enhanced and involved masking, ...
Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174, as seen by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Some of the clouds in the region resemble the face of a monkey in visible-light images, hence the nebula’s nickname: the “Monkey Head.” However, in infrared images such as this, the monkey...
2022年1月12日 Comet Leonard Closeup from Australia Image Credit & Copyright: Blake Estes (itelescope.net) Explanation: What does Comet Leonard look like up close? Although we can’t go there, imaging the comet’s coma and inner tails through a small telescope gives us a good idea. As the name implies, the ion tail is made of ionized gas — g...
Our Milky Way’s central black hole has a leak. This supermassive black hole looks like it still has the vestiges of a blowtorch-like jet dating back several thousand years. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope hasn’t photographed the phantom jet but has helped find circumstantial evidence that it is still pushing feebly into a huge hydrogen cloud ...
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has had many famous and interesting visitors over the years, from fellow scientists, to film industry stars, to musicians, to reporters, and many more. One notable visit was from legendary actor and diplomat, Sidney Poitier. One of the first Black actors to win an Academy Award, which he did for Best Actor for Lil...
This image shows the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) atop its launch vehicle, but before it was encapsulated in the rocket fairing. The telescope is encased in protective clean tent. 这张图片显示了詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜（JWST）在其运载火箭顶部，但在它被封装在火箭整流罩之前。望远镜被包裹在保护性干净的帐篷中。 On Saturday, Jan. 8, the agency will provide live coverage the James Webb Space Telescope’s major spacecraft ...
This image shows knots of cold, dense interstellar gas where new stars are forming. These Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules (frEGGs) were first seen in Hubble’s famous 1995 image of the Eagle Nebula. Because these lumps of gas are dark, they are rarely seen by telescopes. They can be observed when the newly forming stars ignite, their intense ultrav...
NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft (QueSST) is pictured here at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in California, wrapped up in preparation for its move to Texas. The X-plane will undergo ground tests to ensure it can withstand the stresses of flight before returning to California for completion. Credits: Lockheed Martin 图为NASA的X-59安静超音速技术飞机（QUSST）在加利...
This image is one of 100 chosen by the photographers at NASA Headquarters as one of their top images of 2021. See them all. 这张照片是NASA总部的摄影师们选出的2021年最佳照片中的100张照片之一。查看全部照片。 In this image, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with the Lucy spacecraft aboard is seen at Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...