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主题:科学英语:每日星相(11.05)
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每日星相
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The bright waning gibbous moon rises an hour or more after nightfall tonight. If you look closely, you’ll see a star near the moon. It’s Elnath, the star representing Taurus the Bull’s northern horn. It’s a fairly bright star, though it’ll be obscured by the moonlit glare. After rising, the moon and Elnath stay out all night long tonight.
Elnath is a special star, because it pretty much aligns with the galactic anticenter. The galactic anticenter is the direction in the sky that’s about-face from the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
The moon always moves in front of the background stars, traveling its own diameter eastward every hour. By tomorrow night, the moon’s change of position will be obvious. It will have moved eastward into the constellation Gemini the Twins.
For a fixed reference to the galactic anticenter, use Elnath, Taurus the Bull’s second brightest star. The galactic anticenter lies some 3 degrees east of Elnath on the stellar sphere. By the way, the width of your thumb at an arm length away spans roughly 3 degrees of sky.
Written by Bruce McClure
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楼主 Date: 2009-11-04 21:36:10