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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...
影像来源：NASA/JPL-Caltech 翻译：灼眼的粉丝 6月份的天空会发生什么！ 一个日偏食，天蝎座的刺钩，还有属于6月的朱诺号。 6月10日的日食主要在美国东北部和加拿大以及欧洲西北部可见。加拿大东部的一小块区域将见到日环食。 影像来源：NASA/JPL-Caltech 继上个月的月全食之后，六月的日偏食又来了。6月10日，月球将短暂地滑落在地球和太阳之间，部分遮挡我们的太阳。 5月的月食在太平洋一带观赏效果最佳，而本月的日食对美国东北部、加拿大东部和欧洲北部的观众来说将是一种享受。对于美国观众来说，这是一个日出事件，当太阳升起时，月亮似乎已经咬了太阳一口。所以你要找一个朝向东方地平线的清晰视野来观看日偏食。对那些在北方和东方更远地方的人来说，你会看到更多被月亮遮挡的太阳。于欧洲北部的人来说，这更像是一...
2021年05月25日 The Moon During a Total Lunar Eclipse Video Credit: Wang Letian & Zhang Jiajie Explanation: How does the Moon’s appearance change during a total lunar eclipse? The featured time-lapse video was digitally processed to keep the Moon bright and centered during the 5-hour eclipse of 2018 January 31. At first the full moon is visible becaus...
影像来源：NASA/JPL-Caltech 从5月中旬开始，如果你能找到一个朝向西方地平线的清晰视野，你将有机会在同一时间亲眼看到我们太阳系的所有四颗岩质内行星。 从5月中旬开始，在日落之后看到所有四颗内行星（包括地球！）。 影像来源：NASA/JPL-Caltech 大约从5月14日开始，在当地时间日落后约半小时，将你的目光投向西方，看看你是否能发现水星、金星和火星。（当然，地球也很难错过）。 要看清地平线附近的景象，你需要一个没有附近树木和建筑物的无遮挡的视野。最好的地方是湖岸、海滩，开阔的平原、高山或高楼。 除了行星之外，从14日左右到17日，新月也会加入这个可爱的行星场景的行列。金星在天空中的高度会非常低。但现在，请利用这个机会，在一个视野中观测所有的内行星。 月食期间，月球的颜色通常呈现出红色，因为阳...
2021年01月11日 Moon Phases in 2021 Video Credit: Data: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ; Animation: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio; Music: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 (Johann Sebastian Bach), by Kevin MacLeod via Incompetech Explanation: What will the Moon phase be on your birthday this year? It is hard to predict because the Moon’s appe...
2021年01月02日 21st Century Wet Collodion Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Smolinsky Explanation: In the mid 19th century, one of the first photographic technologies used to record the lunar surface was the wet-plate collodion process, notably employed by British astronomer Warren De la Rue. To capture an image, a thick, transparent mixture was used to ...
2020年12月19日 Conjunction after Sunset Image Credit & Copyright: Alireza Vafa Explanation: How close will Jupiter and Saturn be at their Great Conjunction? Consider this beautiful triple conjunction of Moon, Jupiter and Saturn captured through clouds in the wintry twilight. The telephoto view looks toward the western horizon and the Alborz Mountains in Ir...
2020年12月05日 Mons Rumker in the Ocean of Storms Image Credit & Copyright: Jean-Yves Letellier Explanation: Mons Rumker, a 70 kilometer wide complex of volcanic domes, rises some 1100 meters above the vast, smooth lunar mare known as Oceanus Procellarum, the Ocean of Storms. Daylight came to the area late last month. The lunar terminator, the shadow line ...
2020年12月02日 Eye of Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Zachery Cooley Explanation: Who’s watching who? The featured image of the Moon through a gap in a wall of rock may appear like a giant eye looking back at you. Although, in late October, it took only a single exposure to capture this visual double, it also took a lot of planning. The photographic g...
2020年11月14日 Venus, Mercury, and the Waning Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Kevin Sargozza Explanation: Yesterday, early morning risers around planet Earth were treated to a waning Moon low in the east as the sky grew bright before dawn. From the Island of Ortigia, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy this simple snapshot found the slender sunlit crescent just before ...