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13/01/2024
BIOMIMETISME - Innovations inspirées par la Nature - De la peau de requin sur des avions
LE JARDIN MERVEILLEUX DES EPICES - La cannelle, l’une des plus anciennes épices
ASTRONOMY - Circling the Sun
Image Credit & Copyright: Radoslav Zboran
Explanation: Earth's orbit around the Sun is not a circle, it's an ellipse. The point along its elliptical orbit where our fair planet is closest to the Sun is called perihelion. This year, perihelion was on January 2 at 01:00 UTC, with the Earth about 3 million miles closer to the Sun than it was at aphelion (last July 6), the farthest point in its elliptical orbit. Of course, distance from the Sun doesn't determine the seasons, and it doesn't the determine size of Sun halos. Easier to see with the Sun hidden behind a tall tree trunk, this beautiful ice halo forms a 22 degree-wide circle around the Sun, recorded while strolling through the countryside near Heroldstatt, Germany. The Sun halo's 22 degree angular diameter is determined by the six-sided geometry of water ice crystals drifting high in planet Earth's atmosphere.
12/01/2024
ASTRONOMY - Good Morning Moon
2024 January 12
Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Luy, Trier Observatory, TWAN
Explanation: Yesterday, the Moon was New. But on January 9, early morning risers around planet Earth were treated to the sight of an old Moon, low in the east as the sky grew bright before dawn. Above the city of Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany, this simple snapshot found the waning Moon's sunlit crescent just before sunrise. But also never wandering far from the Sun in Earth's sky, inner planets Venus and Mercury shared the cold morning skyview. In the foreground are the historic city's tower and castle with ruins from the 10th century.
11/01/2024
BIOMIMETISME - Innovations inspirées par la Nature - Des éoliennes imaginées à partir des nageoires des baleines
O FUTURO NO PRESENTE - O carro voador chegou (2)
ASTRONOMY - Quadrantids of the North
2024 January 11
Image Credit & Copyright: 염범석 Yeom Beom-seok
Explanation: Named for a forgotten constellation, the Quadrantid Meteor Shower puts on an annual show for planet Earth's northern hemisphere skygazers. The shower's radiant on the sky lies within the old, astronomically obsolete constellation Quadrans Muralis. That location is not far from the Big Dipper asterism, known to some as the Plough, at the boundaries of the modern constellations Bootes and Draco. In fact the Big Dipper "handle" stars are near the upper right corner in this frame, with the meteor shower radiant just below. North star Polaris is toward the top left. Pointing back toward the radiant, Quadrantid meteors streak through the night in this skyscape from Jangsu, South Korea. The composite image was recorded in the hours around the shower's peak on January 4, 2024. A likely source of the dust stream that produces Quadrantid meteors was identified in 2003 as an asteroid.
10/01/2024
ASTRONOMY - The Light, the Dark, and the Dusty
2024 January 10
Image Credit & Copyright: Gábor Galambos
Explanation: This colorful skyscape spans about three full moons across nebula rich starfields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy toward the royal northern constellation Cepheus. Near the edge of the region's massive molecular cloud some 2,400 light-years away, bright reddish emission region Sharpless (Sh)2-155 is at the center of the frame, also known as the Cave Nebula. About 10 light-years across the cosmic cave's bright walls of gas are ionized by ultraviolet light from the hot young stars around it. Dusty bluish reflection nebulae, like vdB 155 at the left, and dense obscuring clouds of dust also abound on the interstellar canvas. Astronomical explorations have revealed other dramatic signs of star formation, including the bright reddish fleck of Herbig-Haro (HH) 168. At the upper left in the frame, the Herbig-Haro object emission is generated by energetic jets from a newborn star.
09/01/2024
O FUTURO NO PRESENTE - O carro voador chegou (1)
LE JARDIN MERVEILLEUX DES EPICES - Le macis, cousin de la noix de muscade
ASTRONOMY - The Local Fluff
2024 December 22 The Local Fluff Illustration Credit: NASA , SVS , Adler , U. Chicago , Wesleyan Explanation: The stars are not alone...
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2021 May 11 Lightning and Orion Beyond Uluru Image Credit & Copyright: Park Liu Explanation: What's happening behind Uluru? A Un...
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Extraordinary Solar Halos Image Credit & Copyright : Magnus Edback Explanation: Welcome to the December Solstice, the first...