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2023年9月17日 Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night) Explanation: What are those dark streaks in this composite image of a solar eclipse? They are reversed shadows of mountains at the edge of the Moon. The center image, captured from Xiamen, China, has the Moon’s center directly in front o...
2023年9月15日 Venus, Moon, and the Smoking Mountain Image Credit & Copyright: Luis Miguel Meade Rodríguez Explanation: Venus has returned as a brilliant morning star. From a window seat on a flight to Mexico City, the bright celestial beacon was captured just before sunrise in this astronomical snapshot, taken on September 12. Venus, at the upper right, sh...
2023年8月19日 Ringed Ice Giant Neptune Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NIRCam Explanation: Ringed ice giant Neptune lies near the center of this sharp near-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The dim and distant world is the farthest planet from the Sun, about 30 times farther away than planet Earth. But in the stunning Webb view, the plane...
2023年8月8日 Moon Meets Jupiter Credit & Copyright: Jordi L. Coy Explanation: What’s that below the Moon? Jupiter — and its largest moons. Many skygazers across planet Earth enjoyed the close conjunction of Earth’s Moon passing nearly in front of Jupiter in mid-June. The featured image is a single exposure of the event taken from Morón de...
八月的天空会发射什么？在黄昏和黎明看到土星，英仙座流星的回归，还有一颗“超级蓝月”。
2023年7月19日 Chandrayaan-3 Launches to the Moon Image Credit & Copyright: Sruthi Suresh (Space Group) Explanation: Birds don’t fly this high. Airplanes don’t go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than human can even comprehend what is going on, nor could any human just a millennium ago. The launch of a rocket bound ...
七月的天空会发生什么？火星和金星分道扬镳，土星与一颗充满尘埃的年轻恒星一起巡游，这是观测银河系的黄金时段。
2023年6月12日 The Largest Satellites of Earth Image Credit & Copyright: Tianyao Yang Explanation: What’s that near the Moon? It’s the International Space Station (ISS). Although the ISS may appear to be physically near the Moon, it is not — it is physically near the Earth. In low Earth orbit and circulating around our big blue marble about every 90 minutes...
6月份的天空会发生什么？ 影像来源：NASA/JPL-Caltech 翻译：灼眼的粉丝 火星和金星，夏天的星星，还有夏至！ 随着北半球夏季明亮的行星升起，战争和爱情的行星每晚都越来越近。请注意21号的夏至。 月度亮点 6月1日至2日——火星位于蜂巢星团（M44）。天黑后在西方寻找这颗红色的行星，双筒望远镜或小型望远镜会在这个开放的星团中发现一个闪闪发光的恒星背景。 6月3日——满月 6月18日——新月 6月21日——今晚新月与金星和火星组成一个可爱的组合。日落后在西方找到它们。 6月21日——夏至。对北方来说，这是一年中白昼时间最长的一天，因为太阳在天空中的轨迹最高、最长。南半球的情况正好相反，在寒冷的冬季，南半球一年中白昼时间最短的一天。 整月——日落之后，火星和金星在西方天空的每个夜晚都越来越近。每晚这对双...
2023年5月24日 Observatory Aligned with Moon Occulting Jupiter Image Credit & Copyright: Rick Whitacre; Text: Natalia Lewandowska (SUNY Oswego) Explanation: Sometimes we witness the Moon moving directly in front of — called occulting — one of the planets in our Solar System. Earlier this month that planet was Jupiter. Captured here was the momen...