بلغات أخرى
- الألمانيّة: Sternschnuppe
- الإنجليزيّة: Shooting Star
- الفرنسيّة: Étoile filante
- الإيطاليّة: Stella cadente
- اليابانيّة: 流星 (رابط خارجي)
- الصينيّة المبسطة: 流星
- الصينيّة التقليدية: 流星
وسائط ذات صلة
Between Two Skies
الشرح: Honourable mention in the 2022 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Still images of celestial patterns.
Taken from Narrabri, Australia, in April 2014, this photograph shows a meteor next to the Large Magellanic Cloud and the reflection of all this in the water.
The Magellanic Clouds are named after the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who made the first maps of the southern part of South America in the early 16th century but did not survive his expedition voyage. His shipmates called the two nebulae after him, and it was only in the 20th century that astronomy research discovered that they are in fact dwarf galaxies accompanying our own.
In the 18th century, the French mathematician J-N. Lacaille, who lived in South Africa for some years in order to draw maps of the sky and the land, invented some new constellations. He measured the positions of some faint stars and listed them in his star catalogue, but did not try to overlay beautiful drawings of real-world objects on the star patterns, so he could name them however he wanted. He was based in the trade station that is now the city of Cape Town and, from this bay, Table Mountain is visible. Lacaille learned from the navigators that they used the clouds around this mountain to predict whether or not the wind would blow in the correct direction and allow for sailing. Normally, there is a huge white cloud at the top of Table Mountain, so Lacaille considered the larger one of the two dwarf galaxies not a “Magellanic Cloud”, but the cloud at Table Mountain. Consequently, he invented the constellation “Mensa”, Table Mountain, in the small area of faint stars directly attached to this dwarf galaxy.
المصدر: Fabrizio Melandri/IAU OAE
License: CC-BY-4.0 المشاع الإبداعي نَسب المُصنَّف 4.0 دولي (CC BY 4.0) أيقونات
Flowing Night Sky
الشرح: Honourable mention in the 2022 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Time lapses of celestial patterns.
This time-lapse was shot from Slovakia in August 2020. By fixing the relative movement of the sky to Earth's rotation in some of the frames, we can experience a different perspective as a viewer.
The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is visible throughout the whole video. The bright objects near the Milky Way are Jupiter and Saturn, close together, Jupiter being the brighter one.
This video also shows the interaction of amateur astronomers observing the Perseids meteor shower with their telescopes pointed towards the sky. An unfortunate aspect of the art of astronomical observing, clouds can suddenly cover the whole sky. The fog occurs mostly because of the higher humidity after the rain.
Most of the light trails in the sky are made by satellites, but some of them, appearing just very briefly and not very noticeably, are meteors, as the video was shot around the peak of Perseids meteor shower.
المصدر: Robert Barsa/IAU OAE
License: CC-BY-4.0 المشاع الإبداعي نَسب المُصنَّف 4.0 دولي (CC BY 4.0) أيقونات
الأنشطة المرتبطة
Meteoroids, Meteors and Meteorites
astroEDU educational activity (links to astroEDU website) Description: Unveiling the mystery of "shooting stars": meteors, meteorites and meteroids
License: CC-BY-4.0 المشاع الإبداعي نَسب المُصنَّف 4.0 دولي (CC BY 4.0) أيقونات
وسوم:
Geology
الفئات العمرية:
6-8
, 8-10
, 10-12
, 12-14
المرحلة التعليمية:
المرحلة المتوسطة
, المرحلة الابتدائية
مجالات التعلم:
محاضرة تفاعلية
التكاليف:
تكلفة منخفضة
المدة:
ساعة ونصف
حجم المجموعة:
جماعي
المهارات:
تحليل البيانات وتفسيرها
, طرح الأسئلة
, توصيل المعلومات
, بناء حجج استنادًا إلى الأدلة
Impact Craters
astroEDU educational activity (links to astroEDU website) Description: A literal Earth-Shattering experiment
License: CC-BY-4.0 المشاع الإبداعي نَسب المُصنَّف 4.0 دولي (CC BY 4.0) أيقونات
وسوم:
History
, Impact
, Experiment
الفئات العمرية:
10-12
, 12-14
, 14-16
المرحلة التعليمية:
المرحلة المتوسطة
, المرحلة الابتدائية
, المرحلة الثانوية
مجالات التعلم:
تعلم استكشافي موجه
, النمذجة
, تجربة علمية تقليدية
التكاليف:
تكلفة منخفضة
المدة:
ساعة واحدة
حجم المجموعة:
جماعي
المهارات:
تحليل البيانات وتفسيرها
, طرح الأسئلة
, صياغة التفسيرات
, بناء حجج استنادًا إلى الأدلة
, استخدام الرياضيات والتفكير الحاسوبي



