标签: 银河

法国上空的气辉

2023年2月15日 Airglow Sky over France Image Credit & Copyright: Julien Looten Explanation: This unusual sky was both familiar and unfamiliar. The photographer’s mission was to capture the arch of the familiar central band of our Milky Way Galaxy over a picturesque medieval manor. The surprise was that on this January evening, the foreground sky was f...

湖畔的银河

2022年9月10日 Galaxy by the Lake Image Credit & Copyright: Gerardo Ferrarino Explanation: This 180 degree panoramic night skyscape captures our Milky Way Galaxy as it arcs above the horizon on a winter’s night in August. Near midnight, the galactic center is close to the zenith with the clear waters of Lake Traful, Neuquen, Argentina, South America, ...

俄勒冈海岸的海与天之辉光

2022年9月4日 Sea and Sky Glows over the Oregon Coast Image Credit & Copyright: Rudy Montoya Explanation: Every step caused the sand to light up blue. That glow was bioluminescence — a blue radiance that also lights the surf in this surreal scene captured in mid-2018 at Meyer’s Creek Beach in Oregon, USA. Volcanic stacks dot the foreground sea, ...

道路与银河

2022年6月11日 The Road and the Milky Way Image Credit & Copyright: David Cruz Explanation: At night you can follow this road as it passes through the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve not too far from Alentejo, Portugal. Or you could stop, look up, and follow the Milky Way through the sky. Both stretch from horizon to horizon in this 180 degree panorama recorded on...

10,000公里长的银河桥

2022年6月3日 A 10,000 Kilometer Galactic Bridge Image Credit & Copyright: Maxime Oudoux, Jean-Francois GELY Explanation: With this creative astro-collaboration you can follow the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy as it bridges northern and southern hemisphere skies. To construct the expansive composite nightscape, skies over Observatorio El Sauce in Chile (top...

法国高山浮图上空的银河

2022年5月16日 Milky Way over French Alp Hoodoos Image Credit & Copyright: Benjamin Barakat Explanation: Real castles aren’t this old. And the background galaxy is even older. Looking a bit like an alien castle, the pictured rock spires are called hoodoos and are likely millions of years old. Rare, but found around the world, hoodoos form when dense r...

恶魔塔上空的银河

2022年4月13日 Milky Way over Devils Tower Image Credit & Copyright: MaryBeth Kiczenski Explanation: What created Devils Tower? The origin of this extraordinary rock monolith in Wyoming, USA is still debated, with a leading hypothesis holding that it is a hardened lava plume that never reached the surface to become a volcano. In this theory, the lighter roc...

前往恒星的道路

2022年3月15日 A Road to the Stars Image Credit: ESO, Petr Horálek (ESO Photo Ambassador, Inst. of Physics in Opava) Explanation: Pictured — a very scenic road to the stars. The road approaches La Silla Observatory in Chile, with the ESO’s 3.6-meter telescope just up ahead. To the left are some futuristic-looking support structures for the planned Bl...

雷耶斯角上空的银河

2022年3月12日 Point Reyes Milky Way Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Zafra Explanation: Northern winter constellations and a long arc of the Milky Way are setting in this night skyscape looking toward the Pacific Ocean from Point Reyes on planet Earth’s California coast. Sirius, alpha star of Canis Major, is prominent below the starry arc toward the lef...

夜空中的银河和黄道光

2022年3月1日 Dueling Bands in the Night Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN) Explanation: What are these two bands in the sky? The more commonly seen band is the one on the right and is the central band of our Milky Way galaxy. Our Sun orbits in the disk of this spiral galaxy, so that from inside, this disk appears as a band of comparable brightness a...