星空畅想--我的星座故事歌

在宇宙的北方,坐熊躺在丢龙的身上,鹿豹伸长了脖子看新奇,在它的视野里,猎犬紧追着太熊的尾巴吓得丢猫和坐狃惊慌地四处躲藏。这时仙王何仙后正在银河里巡游,看到英仙和仙女在一起徘徊。笾去跪在仙王和仙后面前,背对着魔法三鱼,技去为他挑选戴在头上的北量和后发。     

宇宙画廊

我们能看多远？哈勃太空望远镜告诉你。从2003年9月24日至2004年1月16日,哈勃望远镜在天上共转了400多圈,对着天炉座一块看上去黑漆漆的天空进行了长时间曝光,累计曝光了一百多天,拍出了点点亮斑,就好像是一块黑糖上沾了些芝麻——那是130亿年前,宇宙早期形成的星系们。这也是哈勃的第一张超深场照片（图1）。     

2014，跟随“盖亚”探宇宙

一年的开始,总是回首过去、展望未来的机会。告别蛇年,马年到来。新年也带来了令人振奋的消息。空间天文学正在不断壮大,而欧洲空间局（简称欧空局,ESA）超乎想象的“盖亚”（Gala）项目如果进展顺利,将可能对空间天文的发展产生不可估量的影响。     

宇宙画廊

这个个多彩的宝石戒指匠心十足,若让女士们看了一定欢欣不已,然而打造它的过程颇费周折,即便是伟大的宇宙,也费了不少心思。这张照片的数据来自两台国际顶尖的观测设备,其中主要的形态是哈勃空间望远镜拍的,而那几颗粉红色的耀眼宝石,则来自于钱德拉×射线天文台。     

借引力波之力探测宇宙

爱因斯坦预言在时空中会存在引力波,它们可以把天文学家带入宇宙中最剧烈爆发事件、黑洞碰撞乃至宇宙本身大爆炸的中心。引力会伴随我们一生。它是维系桥梁和建筑的基础,后两者构成了我们的城市和运输系统的要件。如我们所知,它还维持着生命赖以生存的大气。但自牛顿因（可能是杜撰的）苹果而获得灵感之日起,引力的起源至今仍是个谜。     

宇宙画廊

星际中的骑行者 这张照片让人联想丰富,你可以把它想织为一个发光的盘子,也可以把它看作一个方头方脑的螃蟹,或者是一个戴着头盔的摩托车手。     

气球硬X射线探测中方位,仰角的测试电路

本叙述了高空气球探测硬Ｘ射线方位、仰角的测试电路。在气球探测中，方位、仰角的测试是至关重要的一环。是关系到整个探测成功与否的关键。设计中尽可能简单、可靠。方位顺时针、反时针皆顺转自如，其方位角测量范围为０￣３６０°，其精度０．１°；俯仰顺时针、逆时针顺转自如，仰角测量范围０￣９０°，甚至到１２０°也可，其精度为０．１°。     

The Effect of Central Baryonic Cores in Dark Halos on the Evaluation of Strong Lensing Probabilities

We present an estimate of the strong lensing probability by dark halos, with emphasis on the role of the baryonic matter arising purely from radiative cooling. We treat the contribution of the cooled baryons optimistically with all the cooled baryons confined within a central core, and including no feedback process from stellar evolution. Our two-component model provides a strong lensing probability that is in good agreement with the observed distribution of multiple images of quasars, provided that the cooled baryons are deposited within a spherical region of radius of 0.1 times the virial radius and follow an isothermal profile. It is pointed out that strong lensing may be used as an additional probe‘of baryon physics in dark halos though this may meanwhile complicate the test of the inner density profiles of dark matter in halos using the observed strong lensing probability.     

Milestones in the Observations of Cosmic Magnetic Fields

Magnetic fields are observed everywhere in the universe. In this review, we concentrate on the observational aspects of the magnetic fields of Galactic and extragalactic objects. Readers can follow the milestones in the observations of cosmic magnetic fields obtained from the most important tracers of magnetic fields, namely, the star-light polarization, the Zeeman effect, the rotation measures (RMs, hereafter) of extragalactic radio sources, the pulsar RMs, radio polarization observations, as well as the newly implemented sub-mm and mm polarization capabilities. The magnetic field of the Galaxy was first discovered in 1949 by optical polarization observations. The local magnetic fields within one or two kpc have been well delineated by starlight polarization data. The polarization observations of diffuse Galactic radio background emission in 1962 confirmed unequivocally the existence of a Galactic magnetic field. The bulk of the present information about the magnetic fields in the Galaxy comes from anal