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07/12/2024

ASTRONOMY - Rocket Engine Fireplace

 2024 December 7

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Rocket Engine Fireplace
Image and Video Credit: NASA

Explanation: You might not think a close up view of rocket engines producing 8.8 million pounds of thrust would be relaxing, but here it can be. In fact, you can get a warm and cozy feeling just spending a few moments watching NASA's holiday rocket engine fireplace. The video features a loop of the Space Launch System rocket's RS-25 main engines throttled up and running flanked by solid rocket boosters and framed by a stone fireplace. The accompanying audio track mixes the drastically muted sounds of the rocket engines firing with the more familiar sounds of a burning, crackling wood fire. AI elements are included in the composed video along with an image and logo from the Artemis I mission. The Artemis I uncrewed mission to the Moon and back again launched in November 2022 on a Space Launch System rocket.

06/12/2024

SANTé/MEDECINE - Les Effets Terrifiants du Stress sur Votre Corps - 1

Travail, enfants, argent... La liste des sources de stress est de plus en plus longue. 

C’est là qu'intervient l'hypothalamus, la "tour de contrôle" du cerveau. Face aux situations stressantes, sa réaction est de lâcher les hormones du stress. 

Instantanément, vous sentez votre cœur battre, votre respiration s'accélérer et vos muscles se contracter... Cette réponse permet de protéger votre corps en cas d’urgence ou de menace, en le préparant à réagir le plus rapidement possible. Mais lorsque le stress se répète de jour en jour, ça nuit à votre santé. L'impact du stress est énorme !

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ASTRONOMIE - La Voie Lactée en Turquie : le Parc national de Munzur


Située dans le Kurdistan, cette petite ville d'Ovacık est située dans le Parc national de Munzur, l'un des plus vastes et les plus riches en biodiversité de Turquie. D'une superficie de 420 km², il se trouve en Anatolie orientale, dans les provinces de Tunceli et d'Erzincan. Traversé par la rivière du même nom, la nature environnante offre de fabuleux paysages, et un endroit idéal pour l'astrophotographie, l'échelle de pollution lumineuse est égale à 0.

ASTRONOMY - Xuyi Station and the Fireball

 2024 December 6

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Xuyi Station and the Fireball
Image Credit & CopyrightHao Liu (Stanford University)

Explanation: Colorful and bright, this streaking fireball meteor was captured in a single exposure taken at Purple Mountain (Tsuchinshan) Observatory’s Xuyi Station in 2020, during planet Earth's annual Perseid meteor shower. The dome in the foreground houses the China Near Earth Object Survey Telescope (CNEOST), the largest multi-purpose Schmidt telescope in China. Located in Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province, the station began its operation as an extension of China's Purple Mountain Observatory in 2006. Darling of planet Earth's night skies in 2024, the bright comet designated Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) was discovered in images taken there on 2023 January 9. The discovery is jointly credited to NASA's ATLAS robotic survey telescope at Sutherland Observatory, South Africa. Other comet discoveries associated with the historic Purple Mountain Observatory and bearing the observatory's transliterated Mandarin name include periodic comets 60/P Tsuchinshan and 62/P Tsuchinshan.

05/12/2024

ASTRONOMIE - La Voie Lactée à la splendide plage de Barrika


La fabuleuse plage de Barrika, située à 25 km de Bilbao, longue de 600 mètres, est une zone sauvage cernée rochers et de falaises spectaculaires. C'est un endroit idéal pour les surfeurs car la mer est assez forte. Sa caractéristique est qu'elle disparaît à marée haute, il faut donc prendre des précautions.

ASTRONOMY - Stereo Jupiter near Opposition

 2024 December 5

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Stereo Jupiter near Opposition
Image Credit & CopyrightMarco Lorenzi

Explanation: Jupiter looks sharp in these two rooftop telescope images. Both were captured last year on November 17 from Singapore, planet Earth, about two weeks after Jupiter's 2023 opposition. Climbing high in midnight skies the giant planet was a mere 33.4 light-minutes from Singapore. That's about 4 astronomical units away. Jupiter's planet girdling dark belts and light zones are visible in remarkable detail, along with the giant world's whitish oval vortices. Its signature Great Red Spot is prominent in the south. Jupiter rotates rapidly on its axis once every 10 hours. So, based on video frames taken only 15 minutes apart, these images form a stereo pair. Look at the center of the pair and cross your eyes until the separate images come together to see the 3D effect. Of course Jupiter is now not far from its 2024 opposition. Planet Earth is set to pass between the Solar System's ruling gas giant and the Sun on December 7.

04/12/2024

ASTRONOMIE - La Voie Lactée au Lac de Geroldsee en Allemagne


Ce petit lac à 927 m d'altitude, s'étend tranquillement et rêveusement, avec en toile de fond, le puissant panorama des « Karwendel » au sud de Garmisch-Partenkirchen, en Haute-Bavière, Allemagne. Le Geroldsee étant un lac de lande, la température de l'eau peut atteindre 24 °C en été. C'est également un excellent spot pour des randonnées.

ASTRONOMY - Driveway Analemma

 2024 December 4

Driveway Analemma
Video Credit & Copyright: Nick Wright

Explanation: Does the Sun return to the same spot on the sky every day?  No.  A more visual answer is an analemma, a composite of sky images taken at the same time and from the same place over a year.  At completion, you can see that the Sun makes a figure 8 on the sky. The featured unusual analemma does not, however, picture the Sun directly: it was created by looking in the opposite direction. All that was required was noting where the shadow of an edge of a house was in the driveway every clear day at the same time. Starting in March in FalconColoradoUSA, the photographer methodically marked the shadow's 1 pm location. In one frame you can even see the photographer himself. Although this analemma will be completed in 2025, you can start drawing your own driveway analemma -- using no fancy equipment -- as soon as today.

03/12/2024

ASTRONOMIE - La Voie Lactée à Chichén Itzá (Mexique)


Chichén Itzá est une ancienne ville maya située entre Valladolid et Mérida dans la péninsule du Yucatán et l'un des plus importants sites de ruines avec une superficie de 1547 hectares au Mexique. Il a été classé au patrimoine mondial de l'Unesco en 1988 et fait partie depuis le 7 juillet 2007 d'une des sept nouvelles merveilles du monde. Cette cité tire son nom de Chi qui signifie « bouche » et Chén, « puits », Itzá veut dire en maya yucatèque « sorcier de l'eau ». C'est le nom du groupe qui, selon les sources ethno-historiques, constituait la classe dirigeante de la cité.

ASTRONOMY - Ice Clouds over a Red Planet

 2024 December 3

Ice clouds are seen over the surface of Mars on the upper
right. Toward the lower left is a bright spot in the sky which
is likely the Sun setting through Martian dust. 
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Ice Clouds over a Red Planet
Image Credit: NASAJPL-CaltechKevin M. Gill; Processing: Rogelio Bernal Andreo

Explanation: If you could stand on Mars -- what might you see? You might look out over a vast orange landscape covered with rocks under a dusty orange sky, with a blue-tinted Sun setting over the horizon, and odd-shaped water clouds hovering high overhead. This was just the view captured last March by NASA's rolling explorer, Perseverance. The orange coloring is caused by rusted iron in the Martian dirt, some of which is small enough to be swept up by winds into the atmosphere. The blue tint near the setting Sun is caused by blue light being preferentially scattered out from the Sun by the floating dust. The light-colored clouds on the right are likely composed of water-ice and appear high in the Martian atmosphere. The shapes of some of these clouds are unusual for Earth and remain a topic of research.

LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Le triangle Turin - Marseille - Lyon

Cette image a été acquise alors que la Station spatiale survolait la frontière entre la Belgique et la France. Elle montre le triangle form...