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29/03/2024
SANTé/MEDECINE - Le fonctionnement de l'oeil humain - Schéma de l'œil
SANTé/MEDECINE - HISTOIRE - 1828 : la pharmacopée d'Antoine Jourdan
SANTé/MEDECINE - L'électroencéphalographie (EEG) - le cerveau électrique
ASTRONOMY - Galileo's Europa
2024 March 29
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SETI Institute, Cynthia Phillips, Marty Valenti
Explanation: Looping through the Jovian system in the late 1990s, the Galileo spacecraft recorded stunning views of Europa and uncovered evidence that the moon's icy surface likely hides a deep, global ocean. Galileo's Europa image data has been remastered here, with improved calibrations to produce a color image approximating what the human eye might see. Europa's long curving fractures hint at the subsurface liquid water. The tidal flexing the large moon experiences in its elliptical orbit around Jupiter supplies the energy to keep the ocean liquid. But more tantalizing is the possibility that even in the absence of sunlight that process could also supply the energy to support life, making Europa one of the best places to look for life beyond Earth. The Juno spacecraft currently in Jovian orbit has also made repeated flybys of the water world, returning images along with data exploring Europa's habitability. This October will see the launch of the NASA's Europa Clipper on a voyage of exploration. The spacecraft will make nearly 50 flybys, approaching to within 25 kilometers of Europa's icy surface.
28/03/2024
INVENTEURS TUéS PAR LEURS CREATIONS - John Godfrey Parry-Thomas
SANTé/MEDECINE - HISTOIRE - 1852 - L'endoscope de Desormeaux
ASTRONOMY - Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
2024 March 28
Image Credit & Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco and Mirco Turra
Explanation: Globular star cluster Omega Centauri, also known as NGC 5139, is 15,000 light-years away. The cluster is packed with about 10 million stars much older than the Sun within a volume about 150 light-years in diameter. It's the largest and brightest of 200 or so known globular clusters that roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Though most star clusters consist of stars with the same age and composition, the enigmatic Omega Cen exhibits the presence of different stellar populations with a spread of ages and chemical abundances. In fact, Omega Cen may be the remnant core of a small galaxy merging with the Milky Way. With a yellowish hue, Omega Centauri's red giant stars are easy to pick out in this sharp, color telescopic view.
27/03/2024
INVENTEURS TUéS PAR LEURS CREATIONS - Jimi Heselden
ASTRONOMY - The Coma Cluster of Galaxies
2024 March 27
Image Credit & Copyright: Joe Hua
Explanation: Almost every object in the featured photograph is a galaxy. The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured here is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies. Each of these galaxies houses billions of stars - just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. Although nearby when compared to most other clusters, light from the Coma Cluster still takes hundreds of millions of years to reach us. In fact, the Coma Cluster is so big it takes light millions of years just to go from one side to the other. Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are ellipticals, while most galaxies outside of clusters are spirals. The nature of Coma's X-ray emission is still being investigated.
26/03/2024
INVENTEURS TUéS PAR LEURS CREATIONS - Henry Winstanley
ASTRONOMY - Christmas Tree Aurora
2024 December 23 Christmas Tree Aurora Image Credit & Copyright: Jingyi Zhang Explanation: It was December and the sky lit up like a ...
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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...