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2022年6月28日 Mercury from Passing BepiColombo Image Credit & License: ESA, JAXA, BepiColombo, MTM Explanation: Which part of the Moon is this? No part — because this is the planet Mercury. Mercury’s old surface is heavily cratered like that of Earth’s Moon. Mercury, while only slightly larger than Luna, is much denser and more massive th...
2022年6月17日 Good Morning Planets from Chile Image Credit & Copyright: Elke Schulz (Daniel Verschatse Observatory) Explanation: On June 15, innermost planet Mercury had wandered about as far from the Sun as it ever gets in planet Earth’s sky. Near the eastern horizon just before sunrise it stands over distant Andes mountain peaks in this predawn sna...
2022年5月3日 Mercury’s Sodium Tail Image Credit & Copyright: Sebastian Voltmer Explanation: That’s no comet. Below the Pleiades star cluster is actually a planet: Mercury. Long exposures of our Solar System’s innermost planet may reveal something unexpected: a tail. Mercury’s thin atmosphere contains small amounts of sodium that glo...
2021年7月10日 Mercury and the Da Vinci Glow Image Credit & Copyright: Gabriel Funes Explanation: On July 8th early morning risers saw Mercury near an old Moon low on the eastern horizon. On that date bright planet, faint glow of lunar night side, and sunlit crescent were captured in this predawn skyscape from Tenerife’s Teide National Park in the Can...
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...
一月份的天空会发生什么？接近太阳，一些容易发现的外行星，并有机会捕捉快速移动的水星。 Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech 地球在1月2日到达其椭圆轨道上的最近点，称为近日点。太阳在天空中不会明显变大，只大3%左右。(当然，在没有适当保护眼睛的情况下，绝不能直视太阳。记住，仅靠太阳镜是不够的。) Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech 遥远的外行星天王星太暗淡了，我们大多数人无法用肉眼看到，如果没有计算机引导的望远镜，很难在天空中找到它。但在1月20日，天王星将位于月球和火星之间。 Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech 在一月的最后两周寻找水星。你需要一个清晰的朝向西方的视野，因为水星将出现在地平线上仅仅几度。 以下是一月的月相。 Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech 来源...
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 ...
2020年7月8日 Mercury’s Sodium Tail Image Credit & Copyright: Andrea Alessandrini Explanation: What is that fuzzy streak extending from Mercury? Long exposures of our Solar System’s innermost planet may reveal something unexpected: a tail. Mercury’s thin atmosphere contains small amounts of sodium that glow when excited by light from the S...
2020 May 30 Green Flashes: Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace Explanation: Follow a sunset on a clear day against a distant horizon and you might glimpse green just as the Sun disappears from view. The green flash is caused by refraction of light rays traveling to the eye over a long path through the atmosphere. Sho...
2020 May 29 Mercury Meets Crescent Venus Image Credit & Copyright: Marco Meniero Explanation: That’s not a bright star and crescent Moon caught between branches of a eucalyptus tree. It’s Venus in a crescent phase and Mercury. Near the western horizon after sunset, the two inner planets closely shared this telescopic field of view on May 22,...