月亮、金星和昴星團
The Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades

來源:Gianni Tumino
Text:
Keighley Rockcliffe
(NASA
GSFC,
UMBC CSST,
CRESST II)|發表日期:2026-04-29
不,地球最近並沒有多出六顆衛星!今天的“每日天文圖片”(APOD)是一組合成影像,記錄了 4 月 19 日黃昏時分,月亮、金星和昴星團在西西里島南部夜空中的軌跡。從 2023 年到 2029 年,由於昴星團位於黃道平面上,月亮和昴星團每月都會“造訪”對方一次。 2026 年 4 月,這一“造訪”恰好與金星形成天體連線。昴星團(梅西耶 45 )中約有六顆恆星通常肉眼可見。由於該星團在全球範圍內均可觀測,不同文化中流傳著許多與昴星團相關的神話與傳說。 例如,北美豪登諾索尼族(Haudenosaunee)傳說中,七個男孩因跳舞過於投入,最終騰空升入天空。天文學家最近發現了數千顆新的昴星團成員,這表明儘管人類已凝視這個星團數千年,關於昴星團仍有許多待探索的奧秘。
原文:No, Earth did not recently acquire six more moons! Today’s APOD is a combination of images following the Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades across a southern Sicilian sky as twilight turned to evening on April 19. From 2023 to 2029, the Pleiades' and the Moon “visit" each other once per month due to the Pleiades' location in the ecliptic plane. April 2026 saw the celestial alignment of their visit with Venus. About six stars in the Pleiades cluster (Messier 45) are typically visible with the unaided eye. Due to the cluster’s visibility across the world, there are many myths and legends across cultures associated with the Pleiades. The Haudenosaunee people of North America, for example, say that seven boys danced so enthusiastically that they lifted off into the sky. Astronomers recently found thousands more Pleiades members, showing that after thousands of years of gazing upon this cluster, there is yet more to learn about the Pleiades.
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