Copyright:Richard Whitehead
Text:
Keighley Rockcliffe
(NASA
GSFC,
UMBC CSST,
CRESST II)
中文翻譯:
當你仰望夜空時，你會看到哪些意想不到的事物呢？今天的圖片像是一幅抽象畫，巨大的顏色像不規則的筆觸散佈在宇宙的畫布上。儘管這幅圖的抽象性讓人難以捉摸，卻也讓我們的腦海中產生了圖案，像是一隻大爪子伸向一個漂浮的泡泡。在這些看似隨意的結構中，隱藏著控制光與物質相互作用的物理法則。這幅圖片中顯示的爪子（Claw，Sh2-157）和泡泡（Bubble，NGC 7635）星雲，散發出映射為黃色和藍色的光芒，顯示氫和氧被比太陽重幾倍的恆星所激發的強烈光輻射所離子化。這幅圖片展現了天文過程中的混亂與結構，表明藝術和科學之間共通的主題都是尋找意想不到的東西。
原文:
What unexpected things do you see when you look up at the night sky? Today’s image resembles an abstract painting, with large swaths of color strewn across a cosmic canvas seemingly without design. Despite the image’s abstract nature, the human mind finds patterns, identifying a large claw reaching up towards a floating bubble. Embedded within these seemingly random structures are the physical laws that govern how light and matter interact. The Claw (Sh2-157) and Bubble (NGC 7635) Nebulae glow colors that are mapped to the yellow and blue shown, indicating the presence of hydrogen and oxygen ionized by the intense light emitted from stars several times the mass of the Sun. This image depicts both the chaos and structure of astronomical processes, showing that a common thread between art and science is to look for the unexpected.
來源:NASA每日圖片
