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18/08/2024
PLANTES FASCINANTES - Le vengeur masqué : l'Aristolochia salvadorensis
ASTRONOMY - A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO
2024 August 18
Image Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO AIA Team
Explanation: One of the most spectacular solar sights is an erupting prominence. In 2011, NASA's Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic Observatory spacecraft imaged an impressively large prominence erupting from the surface. The dramatic explosion was captured in ultraviolet light in the featured time lapse video covering 90 minutes, where a new frame was taken every 24 seconds. The scale of the prominence is huge -- the entire Earth would easily fit under the flowing curtain of hot gas. A solar prominence is channeled and sometimes held above the Sun's surface by the Sun's magnetic field. A quiescent prominence typically lasts about a month and may erupt in a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) expelling hot gas into the Solar System. The energy mechanism that creates a solar prominence is a continuing topic of research. Our Sun is again near solar maximum and so very active, featuring numerous erupting prominences and CMEs, one of which resulted in picturesque auroras just over the past week.
17/08/2024
BEAUX POISSONS EXOTIQUES - Le baliste picasso
SANTé/MEDECINE - Savoir lire les résultats d'une prise de sang - (1-f) - CGMH et TCMH
SANTéMEDECINE - James Watson et Francis Crick à l’origine de la structure de l'ADN
ASTRONOMY - Sky Full of Arcs
2024 August 17
Image Credit & Copyright: Rory Gannaway
Explanation: On August 11 a Rocket Lab Electron rocket launched from a rotating planet. With a small satellite on board its mission was dubbed A Sky Full of SARs (Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites), departing for low Earth orbit from Mahia Peninsula on New Zealand's north island. The fiery trace of the Electron's graceful launch arc is toward the east in this southern sea and skyscape, a composite of 50 consecutive frames taken over 2.5 hours. Fixed to a tripod, the camera was pointing directly at the South Celestial Pole, the extension of planet Earth's axis of rotation in to space. But no bright star marks that location in the southern hemisphere's night sky. Still, the South Celestial Pole is easy to spot. It lies at the center of the concentric star trail arcs that fill the skyward field of view.
16/08/2024
PLANTES FASCINANTES - Dracula ou « l'orchidée tête de singe »
INVENTIONS DE DEMAIN - 20 000 Watts sous les mers
ASTRONOMY - Meteor Borealis
2024 August 16
Image Credit & Copyright: Jason Dain
Explanation: A single exposure made with a camera pointed almost due north on August 12 recorded this bright Perseid meteor in the night sky west of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The meteor's incandescent trace is fleeting. It appears to cross the stars of the Big Dipper, famous northern asterism and celestial kitchen utensil, while shimmering curtains of aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, dance in the night. Doubling the wow factor for night skywatchers near the peak of this year's Perseid meteor shower auroral activity on planet Earth was enhanced by geomagnetic storms. The intense space weather was triggered by flares from an active Sun.
ASTRONOMY - Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge
2025 December 22 Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge Image Credit & Copyright: English Heritage , Josh Dury Explanation: Yesterday the Su...
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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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2025 May 11 The Surface of Venus from Venera 14 Image Credit: Soviet Planetary Exploration Program , Venera 14 ; Processing & Copyri...

