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30/09/2024
INVENTIONS A L'HORIZON 2050 - Les ponts qui s'auto-réparent
ASTRONOMY - Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over Mexico
2024 September 30
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Korona
Explanation: The new comet has passed its closest to the Sun and is now moving closer to the Earth. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) is currently moving out from inside the orbit of Venus and on track to pass its nearest to the Earth in about two weeks. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, pronounced "Choo-cheen-shahn At-less,", is near naked-eye visibility and easily picked up by long-exposure cameras. The comet can also now be found by observers in Earth's northern hemisphere as well as the south. The featured image was captured just a few days ago above Zacatecas, Mexico. Because clouds were obscuring much of the pre-dawn sky, the astrophotographer released a drone to take pictures from higher up, several of which were later merged to enhance the comet's visibility. Although the future brightness of comets is hard to predict, there is increasing hope that Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will further brighten as it enters the early evening sky.
29/09/2024
MUSIQUE - Scott Joplin - The entertainer
Scott Joplin (entre juillet 1867 et janvier 1868 - 1er avril 1917) était un compositeur et pianiste afro-américain, né près de Texarkana, au Texas, dans la première génération post-esclavagiste. Il est devenu célèbre pour ses compositions uniques de ragtime et a été surnommé le « roi du ragtime ». Au cours de sa brève carrière, il a écrit quarante-quatre pièces originales de ragtime, un ballet de ragtime et deux opéras. L’une de ses premières pièces, le « Maple Leaf Rag », est devenue le premier et le plus influent succès du ragtime, et l’est restée pendant un siècle.
ASTRONOMY - Seven Dusty Sisters
2024 September 29
Image Credit: WISE, IRSA, NASA; Processing & Copyright : Francesco Antonucci
Explanation: Is this really the famous Pleiades star cluster? Known for its iconic blue stars, the Pleiades is shown here in infrared light where the surrounding dust outshines the stars. Here, three infrared colors have been mapped into visual colors (R=24, G=12, B=4.6 microns). The base images were taken by NASA's orbiting Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. Cataloged as M45 and nicknamed the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades star cluster is by chance situated in a passing dust cloud. The light and winds from the massive Pleiades stars preferentially repel smaller dust particles, causing the dust to become stratified into filaments, as seen. The featured image spans about 20 light years at the distance of the Pleiades, which lies about 450 light years distant toward the constellation of the Bull (Taurus).
28/09/2024
SANTé/MEDECINE - ALIMENTATION - NUTRIMENTS - Les vitamines : des petites molécules aux grandes responsabilités
INVENTIONS A L'HORIZON 2050 - Dévier les cyclones pour éviter les catastrophes
ASTRONOMY - Rocket Eclipse at Sunset
Image Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper (Launch Photography)
Explanation: Shockwaves ripple across the glare as a launch eclipses the setting Sun in this exciting close-up. Captured on September 17, the roaring Falcon 9 rocket carried European Galileo L13 navigation satellites to medium Earth orbit after a lift-off from Cape Canaveral on Florida's space coast. The Falcon 9 booster returned safely to Earth about 8.5 minutes later, notching the 22nd launch and landing for the reusable workhorse launch vehicle. But where did it land? Just Read the Instructions.
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
BIOMES - Prairies - savanes - brousses
Des prairies, des savanes et des brousses, il y en a aussi dans les régions tempérées. FuturaSciences
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