保护地球，探索宇宙，发现文明
2023年6月1日 Recycling Cassiopeia A Image Credit: X-ray – NASA, CXC, SAO; Optical – NASA,STScI Explanation: Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After a few million years, the enriched material is blasted back into int...
2021年11月23日 The Sun in X-rays from NuSTAR Image Credit: NASA, NuSTAR, SDO Explanation: Why are the regions above sunspots so hot? Sunspots themselves are a bit cooler than the surrounding solar surface because the magnetic fields that create them reduce convective heating. It is therefore unusual that regions overhead — even much higher up in the Sun&#...