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11/10/2024
LES NUAGES DIEUX DU CIEL - Le cumulus congestus : un nuage porteur d'averses
ASTRONOMY - Ring of Fire over Easter Island
2024 October 11
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN)
Explanation: The second solar eclipse of 2024 began in the Pacific. On October 2nd the Moon's shadow swept from west to east, with an annular eclipse visible along a narrow antumbral shadow path tracking mostly over ocean, making its only major landfall near the southern tip of South America, and then ending in the southern Atlantic. The dramatic total annular eclipse phase is known to some as a ring of fire. Also tracking across islands in the southern Pacific, the Moon's antumbral shadow grazed Easter Island allowing denizens to follow all phases of the annular eclipse. Framed by palm tree leaves this clear island view is a stack of two images, one taken with and one taken without a solar filter near the moment of the maximum annular phase. The New Moon's silhouette appears just off center, though still engulfed by the bright disk of the active Sun.
10/10/2024
MUSIQUE - Mikko Franck et l'Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France - Maurice Ravel - Nuit
SANTé/MEDECINE - ALIMENTATION - NUTRIMENTS - Les protéines : un source immédiate d'énergie
ASTRONOMY - Five Bright Comets from SOHO
2024 October 10
Image Compilation Credit: Tunc Tezel (TWAN)
Explanation: Five bright comets are compared in these panels, recorded by a coronograph on board the long-lived, sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. Arranged chronologically all are recognizable by their tails streaming away from the Sun at the center of each field of view, where a direct view of the overwhelmingly bright Sun is blocked by the coronagraph's occulting disk. Each comet was memorable for earthbound skygazers, starting at top left with Comet McNaught, the 21st century's brightest comet (so far). C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas, approaching its perihelion with the active Sun at bottom center, has most recently grabbed the attention of comet watchers around the globe. By the end of October 2024, the blank 6th panel may be filled with bright sungrazer comet C/2024 S1 Atlas. ... or not.
09/10/2024
LES NUAGES DIEUX DU CIEL - Les cumulus n'empêchent pas le soleil de briller
INVENTIONS A L'HORIZON 2050 - L'avion sera silencieux et économe
ASTRONOMY - M106: A Spiral Galaxy with a Strange Center
2024 October 9
Image Credit & Copyright: Ali Al Obaidly
Explanation: What's happening at the center of spiral galaxy M106? A swirling disk of stars and gas, M106's appearance is dominated by blue spiral arms and red dust lanes near the nucleus, as shown in the featured image taken from the Kuwaiti desert. The core of M106 glows brightly in radio waves and X-rays where twin jets have been found running the length of the galaxy. An unusual central glow makes M106 one of the closest examples of the Seyfert class of galaxies, where vast amounts of glowing gas are thought to be falling into a central massive black hole. M106, also designated NGC 4258, is a relatively close 23.5 million light years away, spans 60 thousand light years across, and can be seen with a small telescope towards the constellation of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici).
08/10/2024
ASTRONOMIE - Premières photos de la comète Tsuchinshan-Atlas
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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