2023年11月14日 Three Planets Rock Image Credit & Copyright: Giovanni Passalacqua; Text: Liz Coelho (Pikes Peak) Explanation: In the fading darkness before dawn, a tilted triangle appeared to balance atop a rock formation off the southern tip of Sicily. Making up the points of the triangle are thre […]
NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) captured the lunar shadow during the Oct. 14 annular solar eclipse. The sensor provides frequent global views of Earth from its position at Lagrange Point 1, a gravitationally stable point between the Sun an
2023年9月17日 Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night) Explanation: What are those dark streaks in this composite image of a solar eclipse? They are reversed shadows of mountains at the edge of the Moon. The center image, captured from Xi
2023年9月15日 Venus, Moon, and the Smoking Mountain Image Credit & Copyright: Luis Miguel Meade Rodríguez Explanation: Venus has returned as a brilliant morning star. From a window seat on a flight to Mexico City, the bright celestial beacon was captured just before sunrise in this astronomical sn
6月份的天空会发生什么？ 影像来源：NASA/JPL-Caltech 翻译：灼眼的粉丝 火星和金星，夏天的星星，还有夏至！ 随着北半球夏季明亮的行星升起，战争和爱情的行星每晚都越来越近。请注意21号的夏至。 月度亮点 6月1日至2日——火星位于蜂巢星团（M44）。天黑后在西方寻找这颗红色的行星，双筒望远镜或小型望远镜会在这个开放的星团中发现一个闪闪发光的恒星背景。 6月3日——满月 6月18日——新月 6月21日——今晚新月与金星和火星组成一个可爱的组合。日落后在西方找到它们。 6月21日——夏至。对北方来说，这是一年中白昼时间最长的一天，因为太阳在天空中的轨迹最高、最长。南半球的情况正好相反
2023年5月24日 Observatory Aligned with Moon Occulting Jupiter Image Credit & Copyright: Rick Whitacre; Text: Natalia Lewandowska (SUNY Oswego) Explanation: Sometimes we witness the Moon moving directly in front of — called occulting — one of the planets in our Solar System. Earlier thi
