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2023年12月10日 Big Dipper over Pyramid Mountain Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Cullen Explanation: When did you first learn to identify this group of stars? Although they are familiar to many people around the world, different cultures have associated this asterism with different icons and folklore. Known in the USA as the Big Dipper, the stars are part o...
2023年2月7日 A Comet and Two Dippers Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in Opava Explanation: Can you still see the comet? Yes. Even as C/2022 E3 (ZTF) fades, there is still time to see it if you know where and when to look. Geometrically, Comet ZTF has passed its closest to both the Sun and the Earth and is now headed back to th...
2023年1月7日 Space Stations in Low Earth Orbit Image Credit & Copyright: Zarcos Palma Explanation: On January 3, two space stations already illuminated by sunlight in low Earth orbit crossed this dark predawn sky. Moving west to east (left to right) across the composited timelapse image China’s Tiangong Space Station traced the upper trail captured m...
2021年7月31日 Remembering NEOWISE Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in Opava Explanation: It was just last July. If you could see the stars of the Big Dipper, you could find Comet NEOWISE in your evening sky. After sunset denizens of the north could look for the naked-eye comet below the bowl of that famous celestial kitchen ute...
2021年01月13日 Arches Across an Arctic Sky Image Credit & Copyright: Giulio Cobianchi Explanation: What are these two giant arches across the sky? Perhaps the more familiar one, on the left, is the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. This grand disk of stars and nebulas here appears to encircle much of the southern sky. Visible below the stellar arch is ...