标签: kuiper belt

所有人都在关注冰巨星

NASA的新视野号航天器计划在今年秋天从太阳系外围的遥远位置观测天王星和海王星,任务团队正在邀请全球业余天文爱好者一起参与,同时观测这两颗冰巨星,为太空科学做出真正的贡献。

新视野号的红外图像

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red, and infrared images taken by the spacecraft’s Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC); the colors are processed to best highlight the variatio...

北落师门的尘埃碎片盘

2023年5月11日 Fomalhaut’s Dusty Debris Disk Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Processing: András Gáspár (Univ. of Arizona), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Science: A. Gáspár (Univ. of Arizona) et al. Explanation: Fomalhaut is a bright star, a 25 light-year voyage from planet Earth in the direction of the constellation Piscis Austrinus. Astronomers first noticed Fomalh...

鸟神星与卫星

2022年12月31日 Moon over Makemake Illustration Credit: Alex H. Parker (Southwest Research Institute) Explanation: Makemake (sounds like MAH-kay MAH-kay), second brightest dwarf planet of the Kuiper belt, has a moon. Nicknamed MK2, Makemake’s moon reflects sunlight with a charcoal-dark surface, about 1,300 times fainter than its parent body. Still, in 2016...