Crew-7星云
(原标题: The Crew-7 Nebula)
2023-08-31
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这不是詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜拍摄到的遥远星系星云的最新照片，8月26日清晨，这张由气体和尘埃组成的明亮云团让太空海岸的天文学家眼花缭乱。这张照片是在猎鹰9号火箭发射两分钟后拍摄的，这是SpaceX公司的第七次商业机组人员轮换任务。它捕捉了从分离的第一级和第二级中飘出的羽流和废气，这些羽流和废气在仍然黑暗的天空中被照亮。靠近图像的中心，在粗糙的蓝色环内，有两个亮点。较低的是火箭的第二级，搭载4名宇航员乘坐载人龙飞船前往太空。上面的亮点是猎鹰9号第一级助推器，它正在为返回地球卡纳维拉尔角的第一级着陆区做准备。
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Not the James Webb Space Telescope's latest view of a distant galactic nebula, this illuminated cloud of gas and dust dazzled early morning spacecoast skygazers on August 26. The snapshot was taken about 2 minutes after the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket on the SpaceX Crew-7 mission, the seventh commercial crew rotation mission for the International Space Station. It captures drifting plumes and exhaust from the separated first and second stage illuminated against the still dark skies. Near the center of the image, within the ragged blueish ring, are two bright points of light. The lower one is the second stage of the rocket carrying 4 humans to space in a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The bright point above is the Falcon 9 first stage booster orienting itself for the trip back to Landing Zone-1 at Cape Canaveral, planet Earth.
© Michael Seeley