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12/12/2024
ASTRONOMIE - Jupiter : Une planète passionnante et facile à repérer
SANTé/MEDECINE - Les effets terrifiants du stress - Effets sur la sexualité et le système reproducteur
ASTRONOMIE - Les plus beaux astres de la Voie Lactée - Mars vue par la sonde spatiale Viking 1
ASTRONOMY - Phaethon's Brood
2024 December 12
Image Credit & Copyright: Mikiya Sato (Nippon Meteor Society)
Explanation: Based on its well-measured orbit, 3200 Phaethon (sounds like FAY-eh-thon) is recognized as the source of the meteoroid stream responsible for the annual Geminid meteor shower. Even though most meteor shower parents are comets, 3200 Phaethon is a known and closely tracked near-Earth asteroid with a 1.4 year orbital period. Rocky and sun-baked, its perihelion or closest approach to the Sun is well within the orbit of innermost planet Mercury. In this telescopic field of view, the asteroid's rapid motion against faint background stars of the heroic constellation Perseus left a short trail during the two minute total exposure time. The (faint) parallel streaks of its meteoric children flashed much more quickly across the scene. The family portrait was recorded near the Geminid meteor shower's very active peak on 2017 December 13. That was just three days before 3200 Phaethon's historic close approach to planet Earth. This year, the night of December 13 should again see the peak of the Geminid meteor shower, but faint meteors will be washed out by the bright light of the nearly full moon.
11/12/2024
ASTRONOMIE - Les plus beaux astres de la Voie lactée - GJ 436b
SANTé/MEDECINE - Les effets terrifiants du stress - Effets sur le système musculaire
ASTRONOMY - The Shells and Jets of Galaxy Centaurus A
Image Credit: Rolf Olsen
Explanation: What's the closest active galaxy to planet Earth? That would be Centaurus A, cataloged as NGC 5128, which is only 12 million light-years distant. Forged in a collision of two otherwise normal galaxies, Centaurus A shows several distinctive features including a dark dust lane across its center, outer shells of stars and gas, and jets of particles shooting out from a supermassive black hole at its center. The featured image captures all of these in a composite series of visible light images totaling over 310 hours captured over the past 10 years with a homebuilt telescope operating in Auckland, New Zealand. The brightness of Cen A's center from low-energy radio waves to high-energy gamma rays underlies its designation as an active galaxy.
10/12/2024
SANTé/MEDECINE - Les effets terrifiants du stress - Effets sur le système digestif
ASTRONOMY - The Great Meteor Storm of 1833
Image Credit: Engraving: Adolf Vollmy; Original Art: Karl Jauslin
Explanation: It was a night of 100,000 meteors. The Great Meteor Storm of 1833 was perhaps the most impressive meteor event in recent history. Best visible over eastern North America during the pre-dawn hours of November 13, many people -- including a young Abraham Lincoln -- were woken up to see the sky erupt in streaks and flashes. Hundreds of thousands of meteors blazed across the sky, seemingly pouring out of the constellation of the Lion (Leo). The featured image is a digitization of a wood engraving which itself was based on a painting from a first-person account. We know today that the Great Meteor Storm of 1833 was caused by the Earth moving through a dense part of the dust trail expelled from Comet Tempel-Tuttle. The Earth moves through this dust stream every November during the Leonid meteor shower. Later this week you might get a slight taste of the intensity of that 1833 meteor storm by witnessing the annual Geminid meteor shower.
09/12/2024
ASTRONOMIE - La Voie Lactée en Pologne/Slovaquie (les sommets du Kopa Kondracka dans les Tatras)
AERONAUTIQUE - La grande épopée des ballons dirigeables - 1942 : le ballon barrage
Le ballon de barrage a été inventé lors de la Première Guerre mondiale et surtout utilisé lors de la seconde. De taille moyenne relié au so...
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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...