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27/09/2024
SANTé/MEDECINE - ALIMENTATION - NUTRIMENTS - Les lipides : un carburant essentiel pour l'organisme
ASTRONOMY - Stellar Streams in the Local Universe
2024 September 27
Image Credit: David Martinez Delgado et al.
Explanation: The twenty galaxies arrayed in these panels are part of an ambitious astronomical survey of tidal stellar streams. Each panel presents a composite view; a deep, inverted image taken from publicly available imaging surveys of a field that surrounds a nearby massive galaxy image. The inverted images reveal faint cosmic structures, star streams hundreds of thousands of light-years across, that result from the gravitational disruption and eventual merger of satellite galaxies in the local universe. Such surveys of mergers and gravitational tidal interactions between massive galaxies and their dwarf satellites are crucial guides for current models of galaxy formation and cosmology. Of course, the detection of stellar streams in the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy and our own Milky Way also offers spectacular evidence for ongoing satellite galaxy disruption within our more local galaxy group.
26/09/2024
SANTé/MEDECINE - ALIMENTATION - NUTRIMENTS - Les fibres : nos alliées pour un bon transit
LES NUAGES - DIEUX DU CIEL - Nuage irisé très coloré
PLANTES FASCINANTES - Fleur de la Passion. La fleur dans la démesure : des étamines et un pistil énormes
ASTRONOMY - The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
2024 September 26
Image Credit & Copyright: Jan Beckmann, Julian Zoller, Lukas Eisert, Wolfgang Hummel
Explanation: In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shows itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular star clusters in the northern sky. Sharp telescopic views like this one reveal the spectacular cluster's hundreds of thousands of stars. At a distance of 25,000 light-years, the cluster stars crowd into a region 150 light-years in diameter. Approaching the cluster core, upwards of 100 stars could be contained in a cube just 3 light-years on a side. For comparison, the closest star to the Sun is over 4 light-years away. The deep, wide-field image also reveals distant background galaxies including NGC 6207 at the upper left, and faint, foreground Milky Way dust clouds known to some as integrated flux nebulae.
25/09/2024
SANTé/MEDECINE - ALIMENTATION - NUTRIMENTS - Les antioxydants : les protecteurs contre le stress cellulaire
POISSONS EXOTIQUES - Le chirurgien à voile indien
ASTRONOMY - Comet A3 Through an Australian Sunrise
2024 September 25
Image Credit & Copyright: Lucy Yunxi Hu
Explanation: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is now visible in the early morning sky. Diving into the inner Solar System at an odd angle, this large dirty iceberg will pass its closest to the Sun -- between the orbits of Mercury and Venus -- in just two days. Long camera exposures are now capturing C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), sometimes abbreviated as just A3, and its dust tail before and during sunrise. The featured image composite was taken four days ago and captured the comet as it rose above Lake George, NSW, Australia. Vertical bands further left are images of the comet as the rising Sun made the predawn sky increasingly bright and colorful. Just how bright the comet will become over the next month is currently unknown as it involves how much gas and dust the comet's nucleus will expel. Optimistic skywatchers are hoping for a great show where Tsuchinshan–ATLAS creates dust and ion tails visible across Earth's sky and becomes known as the Great Comet of 2024.
24/09/2024
LES NUAGES DIEUX DU CIEL- Nuage lenticulaire au-dessus du lac Laguna Verde en Bolivie
ASTRONOMY - Young Stars, Dark Nebulae
2025 January 10 Young Stars, Dark Nebulae Image Credit & Copyright : Long Xin Explanation: An unassuming region in the constellati...
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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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2021 January 3 A Phoenix Aurora over Iceland Image Credit & Copyright: Hallgrimur P. Helgason ; Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt Ex...