Kittiwakes 海歐 (22/8/2003)
相中的是美國阿拉斯加的海邊，在懸崖上棲息了上萬隻的海鳥，一些專門居住在海邊的雀鳥，而相中的主角是海歐。

Caption:: As if lined up for takeoff, kittiwakes perch on a precipice in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit:: Joel Sartore

Mars III 火星 III (21/8/2003)
五萬年一次的火星大衝，已進入了倒數的階段，還有六日就是火星在五萬年來最接近地球的日子了！所以(不要怪我)再貼上一張火星的相來。今次這張相中是由在火星已經六年的火星全球勘測者號所拍，和上次那張火星相一樣，可以清楚看到火星上的地形。由於這是近距離的影像，所以不像哈勃太空望遠鏡或地面的望遠鏡所拍的火星，有一層大氣包著火星。

Caption:: The view of Mars shown here was assembled from Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) of Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) daily global images obtained on May 12, 2003. At that time, the northern hemisphere was in early autumn, and the southern hemisphere in early spring. At the left/center of this view are the four large Tharsis volcanoes: Olympus Mons, Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Arsia Mons. Stretching across the center of the globe is the ~5,000 kilometers (~3,000 miles) long Valles Marineris trough system. The seasonal south polar carbon dioxide frost cap is visible at the bottom of this view. A dust storm sweeps across the plains of northern Acidalia at the upper right. North is up, east is right, sunlight illuminates the planet from the left.

Credit:: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Icebergs 冰山 (20/8/2003)
在南極洲，這樣的冰山真的多不勝數，地球大部份的水其實都結成了冰，團積在南北兩極，冰山就是其中一個地方。不過因為地球的暖化，所以冰山也正在溶解中，使地球的水平線上升。

Caption:: These icebergs are very common in Antarctica. Water, our key element for life, are mainly store in solid form in our 2 poles, iceberg is one of the form it take shape. However, owing to global warming, icebergs are melting and causing the sea level rises.

Credit:: Superstock

NGC 300 (19/8/2003)
這個星系叫NGC 300，位於玉夫座，是一個螺旋星系，距離我們七百萬光年，但不要以為很遠，在天文上，七百萬光年算是近的了。如果我們用雙筒望遠鏡，都可以好容易看到它。這個星系跟我們成了90度角，所以會很清楚看到它螺旋的樣子，但不是每個星系看上去都是這樣的。

Caption:: This photo is a reproduction of a colour-composite image of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300 and the surrounding sky field, obtained in 1999 and 2000 with the Wide-Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory. Located some 7 million light-years away, the spiral galaxy NGC 300 is a beautiful representative of its class, a Milky-Way-like member of the prominent Sculptor group of galaxies in the southern constellation of that name. NGC 300 is a big object in the sky - being so close, it extends over an angle of almost 25 arcmin, only slightly less than the size of the full moon. It is also relative bright, even a small pair of binoculars will unveil this magnificent spiral galaxy as a hazy glowing patch on a dark sky background.

Credit:: European Southern Observatory

Omega Nebula in Infrared 紅外線奧米加星雲 (18/8/2003)
昨日給大家看過X射線的奧米加星雲，今天再給大家看一張紅外線的。因為這個奧米加星雲是一個恆星誕生地，所以周圍都佈滿了塵埃和氣體，這星雲在紅外線的波段也很明顯，樣子雖然跟X射線的很不同，但也不難可以配對出大家相應的地方。

Caption:: This infrared image of M17 from the 2MASS project penetrates the dust in this nebular to reveal the otherwise invisible dark molecular cloud. This giant molecular cloud (a cold, dense interstellar cloud which contains a high fraction of molecules) is one of the most luminous and active star-forming regions in the Milky Way. Although the gas in the molecular cloud is too cold to emit visible or near-infrared light, traces of the densest portions of the cloud can still be seen as dark, cloudy strucutres.

Credit:: 2MASS/ UMass/ IPAC-Caltech/ NASA/ NSF