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15/08/2024
ASTRONOMY - Late Night Vallentuna
2024 August 15
Image Credit & Copyright: P-M Hedén (Clear Skies, TWAN)
Explanation: Bright Mars and even brighter Jupiter are in close conjunction just above the pine trees in this post-midnight skyscape from Vallentuna, Sweden. Taken on August 12 during a geomagnetic storm, the snapshot records the glow of aurora borealis or northern lights, beaming from the left side of the frame. Of course on that date Perseid meteors rained through planet Earth's skies, grains of dust from the shower's parent, periodic comet Swift-Tuttle. The meteor streak at the upper right is a Perseid plowing through the atmosphere at about 60 kilometers per second. Also well-known in in Earth's night sky, the bright Pleides star cluster shines below the Perseid meteor streak. In Greek myth, the Pleiades were seven daughters of the astronomical titan Atlas and sea-nymph Pleione. The Pleiades and their parents' names are given to the cluster's nine brightest stars.
14/08/2024
ASTRONOMY - Meteors and Aurora over Germany
2024 August 14
Image Credit & Copyright: Chantal Anders
Explanation: This was an unusual night. For one thing, the night sky of August 11 and 12, earlier this week, occurred near the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. Therefore, meteors streaked across the dark night as small bits cast off from Comet Swift-Tuttle came crashing into the Earth's atmosphere. Even more unusually, for central Germany at least, the night sky glowed purple. The red-blue hue was due to aurora caused by an explosion of particles from the Sun a few days before. This auroral storm was so intense that it was seen as far south as Texas and Italy, in Earth's northern hemisphere. The featured image composite was built from 7 exposures taken over 26 minutes from Ense, Germany. The Perseids occur predictably every August, but auroras visible this far south are more unusual and less predictable.
13/08/2024
INVENTIONS DE DEMAIN - Un catalogue complet des mutations génétiques
ASTRONOMY - Giant Jet from the International Space Station
2024 August 13
Image Credit: NASA, Expedition 71 Crew, JSC, ESRS, Matthew Dominick; Processing: Simeon Schmauß
Explanation: What's that on the horizon? When circling the Earth on the International Space Station early last month, astronaut Matthew Dominick saw an unusual type of lightning just beyond the Earth's edge: a gigantic jet. The powerful jet appears on the left of the featured image in red and blue. Giant jet lightning has only been known about for the past 23 years. The atmospheric jets are associated with thunderstorms and extend upwards towards Earth's ionosphere. The lower part of the frame shows the Earth at night, with Earth's thin atmosphere tinted green from airglow. City lights are visible, sometimes resolved, but usually creating diffuse white glows in intervening clouds. The top of the frame reveals distant stars in the dark night sky. The nature of gigantic jets and their possible association with other types of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) such as blue jets and red sprites remains an active topic of research.
12/08/2024
SANTé/MEDECINE - Voici une technique naturelle pour lutter contre les piqures de moustiques
Démangeaisons : La réaction allergique à la salive du moustique peut provoquer des démangeaisons intenses autour de la zone piquée.
Rougeurs et gonflements : La peau autour de la piqûre peut devenir rouge, enflée et chaude au toucher.
Irritations cutanées : Les piqûres de moustiques peuvent causer des irritations cutanées, des plaques rouges ou des réactions cutanées locales.
Infections : En se grattant les piqûres, il est possible de provoquer des lésions cutanées qui peuvent s'infecter.
Réactions allergiques : Certaines personnes peuvent être plus sensibles aux piqûres de moustiques et développer des réactions allergiques plus graves, telles que des œdèmes, des éruptions cutanées généralisées, des difficultés respiratoires, etc.
Transmission de maladies : Dans certaines parties du monde, les moustiques peuvent transmettre des maladies comme le paludisme, la dengue, le virus du Nil occidental, le chikungunya, etc. Ces maladies peuvent avoir des conséquences graves pour la santé.
Sur son compte Instagram, une influenceuse a donné une astuce imparable : "Saviez-vous que vous pouvez utiliser une peau de banane pour soulager les démangeaisons causées par une piqûre de moustique ? Cela est dû aux huiles naturelles présentes dans la peau de banane. Frottez simplement la peau de banane côté chair vers le bas contre votre morsure et les démangeaisons disparaîtront progressivement", a-t-elle écrit.
Il est important de surveiller attentivement les piqûres de moustiques et de suivre les recommandations médicales si des symptômes graves ou persistants apparaissent. Pour soulager les symptômes des piqûres de moustiques, des remèdes locaux comme des crèmes antiprurigineuses, des compresses froides, des lotions apaisantes ou des médicaments antihistaminiques peuvent être utilisés.
Il existe d’autres moyens efficaces de se débarrasser des piqures de moustiques. Par exemple, les répulsifs à base de DEET, d'icaridine ou d'huiles essentielles comme la citronnelle ou l'eucalyptus peuvent être efficaces pour repousser les moustiques. Les vêtements qui couvrent la peau et de couleur claire peuvent aussi aider à réduire les risques de piqûres de moustiques. Il est recommandé d'installer des moustiquaires aux fenêtres, portes et lits pour empêcher les moustiques de pénétrer dans les espaces de vie.
Évitez également les endroits où les moustiques sont plus présents, comme les zones humides, les marais ou les lieux où l'eau stagnante est présente. Les moustiques sont plus actifs à l'aube et au crépuscule, il est donc préférable d'éviter de sortir à ces moments-là si possible. En suivant ces conseils, vous pouvez minimiser les risques de piqûres de moustiques et réduire les désagréments associés à ces incidents.
Léa Ouzan
ASTRONOMY - Perseid Meteors over Stonehenge
2024 August 12
Image Credit & Copyright: Josh Dury
Explanation: What's happening in the sky above Stonehenge? A meteor shower: specifically, the Perseid meteor shower. A few nights ago, after the sky darkened, many images of meteors from this year's Perseids were captured separately and merged into a single frame. Although the meteors all traveled on straight paths, these paths appear slightly curved by the wide-angle lens of the capturing camera. The meteor streaks can all be traced back to a single point on the sky called the radiant, here just off the top of the frame in the constellation of Perseus. The same camera took a deep image of the background sky that brought up the central band of our Milky Way galaxy running nearly vertical through the image center. The featured image was taken from Wiltshire, England, being careful to include, at the bottom, the famous astronomical monument of Stonehenge. Although the Perseids peaked last night, some Perseid meteors should still be visible for a few more nights.
11/08/2024
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ASTRONOMY - Animation: Perseid Meteor Shower
2024 August 11
Visualization Credit: Ian Webster; Data: NASA, CAMS, Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute)
Explanation: Where do Perseid meteors come from? Mostly small bits of stony grit, Perseid meteoroids were once expelled from Comet Swift-Tuttle and continue to follow this comet's orbit as they slowly disperse. The featured animation depicts the entire meteoroid stream as it orbits our Sun. When the Earth nears this stream, as it does every year, the Perseid Meteor Shower occurs. Highlighted as bright in the animation, comet debris this size is usually so dim it is practically undetectable. Only a small fraction of this debris will enter the Earth's atmosphere, heat up and disintegrate brightly. Tonight and the next few nights promise some of the better skies to view the Perseid shower as well as other active showers because the first quarter moon will be absent from the sky from midnight onward.
10/08/2024
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