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韦伯图像: 棒旋星系NGC 1365

2023年2月18日 Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1365 from Webb Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Janice Lee (NOIRLab) – Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Explanation: A mere 56 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is an enormous barred spiral galaxy about 200,000 light

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韦伯用高精度技术探测查里克洛环系统

在一项高精度的观测壮举中,科学家们利用NASA詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜的一项新技术,拍摄到了查里克洛薄环所投射的星光阴影。查里克洛是一个冰冷的小天体,但却是已知的半人马小行星中最大的一个,位于土星轨道外20亿英里之外。查里克洛的直径仅为160英里(250公里),比地球的直径小51倍,其环距天体中心约250英里(400公里)。

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LHS 475 b: 地球尺寸的系外行星

2023年1月24日 LHS 475 b: Earth-Sized Exoplanet Illustration Credit: DeepAI’s Fantasy World Generator Explanation: If you could stand on exoplanet LHS 475 b, what might you see? No one knows for sure but pictured here is an interesting guess made by an Earth-based artificial intelligence (AI) engi

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韦伯:M16的恒星形成之柱

2022年12月6日 M16: A Star Forming Pillar from Webb Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Processing & Copyright: Mehmet Hakan Özsaraç Explanation: What’s happening inside this interstellar mountain? Stars are forming. The mountain is actually a column of gas and dust in the picturesque Eagle Nebula

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IIZw096: 合并中的星系对

2022年12月2日 Merging Galaxy Pair IIZw096 Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans Explanation: Bright at infrared wavelengths, this merging galaxy pair is some 500 million light-years away toward the constellation Delphinus. The cosmic mashup is seen against a background of even mor

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创生之柱

2022年10月20日 Pillars of Creation Image Credit: Science – NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NIRCam Processing – Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI) Explanation: A now famous picture from the Hubble Space Telescope featured these star forming columns of cold gas

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螺旋星系M74:更清晰的影像

2022年7月22日 Spiral Galaxy M74: A Sharper View Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Processing Copyright: Robert Eder Explanation: Beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 74 (also known as NGC 628) lies some 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces. An island universe of about 100 billion s

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韦伯: 木星与木星环的红外光图像

2022年7月20日 Jupiter and Ring in Infrared from Webb Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt Explanation: Why does Jupiter have rings? Jupiter’s main ring was discovered in 1979 by NASA’s passing Voyager 1 spacecraft, but its origin was then a mystery. D

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