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26/08/2024
PHENOMENES METEOROLOGIQUES - Le soleil levant à travers un brouillard épais
ASTRONOMY - Perseid Meteors Over Inner Mongolia
2024 August 26
Video Credit: Jeff Dai (TWAN); Music: Ibaotu catalog number 771024 (Used with permission)
Explanation: Did you see it? One of the more common questions during a meteor shower occurs because the time it takes for a meteor to flash is similar to the time it takes for a head to turn. Possibly, though, the glory of seeing bright meteors shoot across the sky -- while knowing that they were once small pebbles on another world -- might make it all worthwhile, even if your observing partner(s) can't always share in your experience. The featured video is composed of short clips taken in Inner Mongolia, China during the 2023 Perseid Meteor Shower. Several bright meteors were captured while live-reaction audio was being recorded -- just as the meteors flashed. This year's 2024 Perseids also produced many beautiful meteors. Another good meteor shower to watch for is the Geminids which peak yearly in mid-December, this year with relatively little competing glow from a nearly new Moon.
25/08/2024
ASTRONOMY - Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn's Enceladus
2024 August 25
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team
Explanation: Do underground oceans vent through canyons on Saturn's moon Enceladus? Long features dubbed tiger stripes are known to be spewing ice from the moon's icy interior into space, creating a cloud of fine ice particles over the moon's South Pole and creating Saturn's mysterious E-ring. Evidence for this has come from the robot Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. Pictured here, a high resolution image of Enceladus is shown from a close flyby. The unusual surface features dubbed tiger stripes are visible in false-color blue. Why Enceladus is active remains a mystery, as the neighboring moon Mimas, approximately the same size, appears quite dead. An analysis of ejected ice grains has yielded evidence that complex organic molecules exist inside Enceladus. These large carbon-rich molecules bolster -- but do not prove -- that oceans under Enceladus' surface could contain life.
SANTé/MEDECINE - Ignace Philippe Semmelweis - à l'origine de l’asepsie
BEAUX POISSONS EXOTIQUES - Le poisson ange nain à deux épines
PLANTES FASCINANTES - Topa Topa ? Pingouin ? Pantoufles ? Je viens de Patagonie
INVENTIONS DE DEMAIN - Le tambour change de peau
24/08/2024
SANTé/MEDECINE - William Harvey - à l'origine de la circulation sanguine
PHENOMENES METEOROLOGIQUES - Des vagues géantes en Angleterre
ASTRONOMY - South Pacific Shadowset
2024 August 24
Image Credit & Copyright: Jin Wang
Explanation: The full Moon and Earth's shadow set together in this island skyscape. The alluring scene was captured Tuesday morning, August 20, from Fiji, South Pacific Ocean, planet Earth. For early morning risers shadowset in the western sky is a daily apparition. Still, the grey-blue shadow is often overlooked in favor of a brighter eastern horizon. Extending through the dense atmosphere, Earth's setting shadow is bounded above by a pinkish glow or anti-twilight arch. Known as the Belt of Venus, the arch's lovely color is due to backscattering of reddened light from the opposite horizon's rising Sun. Of course, the setting Moon's light is reddened by the long sight-line through the atmosphere. But on that date the full Moon could be called a seasonal Blue Moon, the third full Moon in a season with four full Moons. And even though the full Moon is always impressive near the horizon, August's full Moon is considered by some the first of four consecutive full Supermoons in 2024.
Astronomy - STARRY NIGHT II
2026 June 19 Starry Night II Image Credit & Copyright: Rodrigo Guerra , Original Painting: Vincent van Gogh Explanation: Does this scen...
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2026 January 1 Auroral Corona Image Credit & Copyright : Roi Levi Explanation: Cycle 25 solar maximum made 2025 a great year for ...
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2026 January 2 NanoSail-D2 Image Credit & Copyright : Ralf Vandebergh Explanation: In 2011, on January 20, NASA's NanoSail-D2 ...

