外星生命:我们到底认识它吗?

在西雅图举行的美国天文协会会议上,最好的赠品是洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室提供的外星人笔,其形象是一个肥胖的镀铬塑料外星人,有着球状脑袋,当然还有绿色的眼睛.     

在地球上寻找外星生命

天文学研究并不意味着一定要拥有一架太空望远镜。在研究过程中,天体生物学家借助的设备便不是太空望远镜,而是显微镜。天体生物学研究宇宙中生命的起源、进化、分布和未来。这一涉及多学科的研究领域将目光聚焦于寻找太阳系的适居环境和系外适居行星,寻找火星及太阳系其他天体生命起源前的化学迹象和生命存在证据,对地球生命的起源和早期进化进行实验室和实地研究,同时研究生命适应地球和太空环境的潜力。     

太空居民的生命保障(上)

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从宇宙看地球和生命

生命是怎样诞生和进化的呢？地球外的宇宙存在吗？对于这些问题,人类至今还不清楚。美国航空航天局主导开创了“宇宙生物学”学科,在一个广阔的范围内对生命起源与进化进行研究。     

生命独此一家？！

有一个问题一直在困扰着我们,这就是：“只有地球存在生命吗？”探讨UFO的人十有八九会说有,那么其他人会怎么看这个问题呢？首先,我们得界定一下生命这个字眼。什么是生命？     

我们周围的生命

类似太阳这样的恒星，仅银河系就有１５００亿个。然而，无论哪一个恒星，它即使有自己的行星系统也不能永远与之安然相处。一些恒星放出的巨大热量足以把它的行星烧成灰烬，而另一些恒星甚至无力把它的行星烘热。尽管如此，学者们仍推断银河系有１％～２％的恒星可能会拥有自己的行星系统，而且这些星球上可能存在着生命。这是一种什么样的生命呢？在长篇幻想小说里，游来荡去的总是一些以原子能为食的金属生命，或是存在于宇宙间的思维晶体，或是硅三角之类，不一而足。我们无意与幻想家争长论短，只想用化学家的眼光观察一下邻近的星球。…     

宇宙和生命的进化

运动是宇宙万物的最基本属性，辩证法认为，事物在否定之否定中不断由低级形态向高级形态演化，这一进程遵循着从简单到复杂、从量变到质变的轨迹。 　生命的进化论最开始是 19世纪由达尔文等人在物种起源的研究中引进的，并且很快地按照其基本精神被推广到人类文化的各个领域，形成了“达尔文主义”。在物理学的研究中，科学家和哲学家康德则比达尔文更早地应用了演化的思想，最先提出太阳系是经过演化形成的观点。而在 20世纪，由于哈勃对宇宙膨胀的天文观测，由于时间在科学中被重新讨论，宇宙本身的演化已经占据了人们的心智。 　在宇宙…     

UFO及飞棍的来源和结构之谜

虽然按照美国科学院院士特雷克的推算，具有2CCO亿颗恒星的银河系中应该有40万-2CCO万颗上有生命。而且整个宇宙中又具有约1200亿个星系，所以宇宙中肯定存在生命乃至高智能的生物。但一般来说，人们总是强调外星生命无法穿越距离遥远的太空，但我们无法排除CFO在太阳系甚至在地球的不同地方已经存在基地。     

地外生命和外星人探测

十九、如何寻找太阳系外行星 向何方寻找太阳系外行星 宇宙之广,恒星无数,向何方寻找才能更有效地找寻到太阳系外行星呢？ 要弄清这个问题,我们应首先弄清行星是如何形成的。     

探索宇宙中的生命

围绕太阳以外其他恒星的70余颗行星现在是什么样子?这个问题一直引起公众和媒体的极大兴趣.在我看来,这种关注更多是因对外星智能生命的预期而促动的,而非发现太阳系之外行星本身.     

天上的人间生活

国际空间站上的活动空间是一块一块拼接出来的,这些巨大的罐装模块彼此连接,形成了一条长74米的管道,管道的一端是俄罗斯提供的模块,通过接口与美国、欧洲各国提供的其他模块连接了起来。一条巨     

Advances in infrared and sub-millimeter filters

Infrared filters use a large variety of physical principles and techniques, as can be expected since they cover three decades of the IR spectrum (1 μm - 1 mm). The multilayer interference filters, derived from optical techniques, play the main role in the region 1 μm–40 μm. They have been successfully used in space applications. On the other side of the spectrum is the domain of metallic mesh filters, which is still developing. Bulk absorption, Reststrahlen bands, diffusion and gratings are also used to achieve the desired properties. A short review of this situation is given, with emphasis on the present trends and developments.Infrared and sub-millimeter filters use a large variety of physical principles and techniques that we may classify in two large families.     

Advances in auroral imaging from space

Space imaging of the aurora provides unique quantitative information on the instantaneous global distribution and pattern of the aurora - a direct result of particle acceleration and precipitation processes occurring throughout the magnetosphere. Techniques for imaging from space have usually involved systematically scanning a detector across the earth using some combination of satellite motion and spin, scanning mirrors, and/or electronic scanning. The recent advent of CCD image sensor arrays opens up possibilities for vastly improved sensitivity and resolution in satellite imagers, although scanning systems retain significant advantages in situations where scattered light is a problem and where narrow band optical interference filters are needed.A new type of imaging instrument being built in Canada for the Swedish Viking satellite will employ a two-dimensional CCD array detector which is fibre-optically coupled to a micro-channel plate intensifier. It will produce images of low light level auroral emissions at the rate of one image per spin of the satellite (20 seconds). The instrument operates in the vacuum ultraviolet and uses a fast inverse Cassegrain optical system. Charge is shifted in the CCD imaging array in synchronism with the moving image so that exposure times of approximately one second will be achieved.     

生命的定义

生命的确切定义是什么呢?这一直是个让生物学家夜不能寐的问题.生物科学即是对生命的研究;然而科学家对此仍不能达成一个统一的意见.一个能学习和发展的计算机程序能算生命吗?一团野火可以视为一个活体吗?     

“天人合一”之 生命的起源(上)

<正>什么是天人合一?可以从两方面理解:其一,组成生命和人体的元素是与组成宇宙天体一样普通的元素,没有什么特别的;其二,生命的诞生和发展仰仗宇宙的自然环境。     

Recent Advances in Research of the Chinese Meridian Project

The Chinese Meridian Project is a ground-based space environment monitoring facility in China. The first phase of the project has been put into formal operation since 2012 after 4-year's construction. It consists of 15 observatories located roughly along 120°E longitude and 30°N latitude, with each observatory equipped with multiple instruments to monitor space environment. Based on the huge observational data accumulated, significant scientific achievements have been made with more than 300 peer-reviewed journal papers published. In this report, scientific results from the past two years have been reviewed with topics covering fields of geomagnetic, atmosphere, ionosphere, and their responses to solar activities. The excellent achievements from the Phase I of Chinese Meridian Project lay a good foundation for Phase II, which has already been approved with the official kick-off of construction in November 2019. It will conceive an unprecedented contribution to global space weather community from China.     

Advances in long duration,high altitude flights

During the past two decades there have been many significant advances made in the state-of-the-art of scientific ballooning. High altitude long duration flights, of moderate to heavy payloads, however, have proven to be the one requirement of the scientific community that has been the most difficult to meet. Conventional and cryogenic ballasting systems, super pressure balloons and hybrid balloon systems are some of the approaches that have been taken to maintain experiments at altitude for extended periods of time. The results of those development efforts and various methods of data retrieval will be discussed.