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01/03/2024
ASTRONOMIE - Eruption solaire exceptionnelle
ASTRONOMY - Odysseus and The Dish
2024 March 1
Image Credit & Copyright: John Sarkissian (ATNF Parkes Radio Observatory)
Explanation: Murriyang, the CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope points toward a nearly Full Moon in this image from New South Wales, Australia, planet Earth. Bathed in moonlight, the 64 meter dish is receiving weak radio signals from Odysseus, following the robotic lander's February 22 touch down some 300 kilometers north of the Moon's south pole. The landing of Odysseus represents the first U.S. landing on the Moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Odysseus' tilted orientation on the lunar surface prevents its high-gain antenna from pointing toward Earth. But the sensitivity of the large, steerable Parkes dish significantly improved the reception of data from the experiments delivered to the lunar surface by the robotic moon lander. Of course the Parkes Radio Telescope dish became famous for its superior lunar television reception during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, allowing denizens of planet Earth to watch the first moonwalk.
29/02/2024
AUTOMOBILE - INVENTIONS QUI N'ONT JAMAIS VU LE JOUR - Pare-brise arrière rabattables - Ford Heritage Vault
ASTRONOMIE - Bénou l'astéroïde qui se dirige vers la Terre équivaut à 22 bombes atomiques !
MYSTERES SOUS L'EAU DES LACS - Plongée sous la glace
ASTRONOMY - Julius Caesar and Leap Days
2024 February 29
Image Credit & License: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc., Wikimedia
Explanation: In 46 BC Julius Caesar reformed the calendar system. Based on advice by astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria, the Julian calendar included one leap day every four years to account for the fact that an Earth year is slightly more than 365 days long. In modern terms, the time it takes for the planet to orbit the Sun once is 365.24219 mean solar days. So if calendar years contained exactly 365 days they would drift from the Earth's year by about 1 day every 4 years and eventually July (named for Julius Caesar himself) would occur during the northern hemisphere winter. By adopting a leap year with an extra day every four years, the Julian calendar year would drift much less. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII provided the further fine-tuning that leap days should not occur in years ending in 00, unless divisible by 400. This Gregorian Calendar system is the one in wide use today. Of course, tidal friction in the Earth-Moon system slows Earth's rotation and gradually lengthens the day by about 1.4 milliseconds per century. That means that leap days like today will not be necessary, about 4 million years from now. This Roman silver coin, a denarius, depicts Julius Caesar (left) and Venus, Roman goddess of love.
28/02/2024
SANTé/MEDECINE - IRM : le cœur en toute transparence
ASTRONOMY - Shades of Night
2024 February 28
Image Credit & Copyright: Dario Giannobile
Explanation: How does the sky turn dark at night? In stages, and with different characteristic colors rising from the horizon. The featured image shows, left to right, increasingly late twilight times after sunset in 20 different vertical bands. The picture was taken last month in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy, in the direction opposite the Sun. On the far left is the pre-sunset upper sky. Toward the right, prominent bands include the Belt of Venus, the Blue Band, the Horizon Band, and the Red Band. As the dark shadow of the Earth rises, the colors in these bands are caused by direct sunlight reflecting from air and aerosols in the Earth's atmosphere, multiple reflections sometimes involving a reddened sunset, and refraction. In practice, these bands can be diffuse and hard to discern, and their colors can depend on colors near the setting Sun. Finally, the Sun completely sets and the sky becomes dark. Don't despair -- the whole thing will happen in reverse when the Sun rises again in the morning.
27/02/2024
SANTé/MEDECINE - L'IRM fonctionnelle, l'outil pour lire dans les pensées
MYSTERE SOUS L'EAU DES LACS - L'écrevisse signal, une beauté fatale
ASTRONOMY - Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)
2025 September 18 Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) Image Credit & Copyright : Team Ciel Austral Explanation: A new visitor from the outer So...

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2022 September 26 All the Water on Planet Earth Illustration Credit: Jack Cook, Adam Nieman, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ; Data ...
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2021 August 11 Mammatus Clouds over Saskatchewan Image Credit & Copyright: Michael F Johnston Explanation: When do cloud bottoms appe...