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08/11/2024
BIOMES - La toundra sous la menace du réchauffement climatique
ASTRONOMY - Helping Hand in Cassiopeia
2024 November 8
Image Credit & Copyright: Francesco Radici
Explanation: Drifting near the plane of our Milky Way galaxy these dusty molecular clouds seem to extend a helping hand on a cosmic scale. Part of a local complex of star-forming interstellar clouds they include LDN 1358, 1357, and 1355 from American astronomer Beverly Lynds' 1962 Catalog of Dark Nebulae. Presenting a challenging target for astro-imagers, the obscuring dark nebulae are nearly 3,000 light-years away, toward rich starfields in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. At that distance, this deep, telescopic field of view would span about 80 light-years.
07/11/2024
UNE QUESTION (PRE)HISTORIQUE - Alors qui de l'oeuf ou de la poule ?
BIOMES - Les prairies savanes et brousses : des biomes peu gourmands en eau
METEOROLOGIE - En Nouvelle-Zélande un étrange nuage apparaît toujours au même endroit depuis 1896
ASTRONOMIE - La dream team Hubble et James-Webb révèle deux yeux cosmiques injectés de sang qui nous regardent !
ASTRONOMY - Shell Galaxies in Pisces
2024 November 7
Image Credit & Copyright: George Williams
Explanation: This spectacular intergalactic skyscape features Arp 227, a curious system of galaxies from the 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Some 100 million light-years distant within the boundaries of the constellation Pisces, Arp 227 consists of the two galaxies prominent above and left of center, the shell galaxy NGC 474 and its blue, spiral-armed neighbor NGC 470. The readily apparent shells and star streams of NGC 474 are likely tidal features originating from the accretion of another smaller galaxy during close gravitational encounters that began over a billion years ago. The large galaxy on the bottom righthand side of the deep image, NGC 467, appears to be surrounded by faint shells and streams too, evidence of another merging galaxy system. Intriguing background galaxies are scattered around the field that also includes spiky foreground stars. Of course, those stars lie well within our own Milky Way Galaxy. The telescopic field of view spans 25 arc minutes or just under 1/2 degree on the sky.
06/11/2024
VILLES BIONIQUES DU FUTUR - Solar Drop : une piscine-lagon
ASTRONOMY - Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas over the Dolomites
2024 November 6
Credit & Copyright: Alessandra Masi
Explanation: Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas is now headed back to the outer Solar System. The massive dusty snowball put on quite a show during its trip near the Sun, resulting in many impressive pictures from planet Earth during October. The featured image was taken in mid-October and shows a defining visual feature of the comet -- its impressive anti-tail. The image captures Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) with impressively long dust and ion tails pointing up and away from the Sun, while the strong anti-tail -- composed of more massive dust particles -- trails the comet and points down and (nearly) toward the recently-set Sun. In the foreground is village of Tai di Cadore, Italy, with the tremendous Dolomite Mountains in the background. Another comet, C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), once a candidate to rival Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas in brightness, broke up last week during its close approach to our Sun.
05/11/2024
VILLES BIONIQUES DU FUTUR - King’s forest : des chalets-feuilles au Maroc
LANGAGE - Quelle langue vivante ressemble le plus au latin ? 1/4
Quelle descendante directe de la langue de Cicéron parlons-nous aujourd'hui sans même le savoir ? Parmi les héritières du latin, une lan...
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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...


