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21/01/2025
AERONAUTIQUE - La grande épopée des ballons dirigeables - 2010 : le ballon captif de surveillance 101230-N-0020T-144
SANTé/MEDECINE - A la découverte de l'oreille - L'oreille interne
ASTRONOMY - Comet ATLAS over Brasília
2025 January 21
Image Credit: Frederico Danin
Explanation: What's that in the sky? Above the city, above most clouds, far in the distance: it's a comet. Pictured, the impressive tail of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was imaged from Brasília, Brazil four days ago. Last week the evolving comet rounded the Sun well inside the orbit of planet Mercury, going so close there was early concern that it might break up -- and recent evidence that it really did. At one point near perihelion, Comet ATLAS was so bright that sightings were even reported during the day -- over the bright sky near the Sun -- by careful observers. Over the past few days, Comet ATLAS has developed a long tail that has been partly visible with unaided eyes after sunset, most notably in Earth's southern hemisphere.
20/01/2025
ASTRONOMY - Comet ATLAS Rounds the Sun
2025 January 20
Image Credit: NASA, SOHO Spacecraft, LASCO C3; Processing: Rolando Ligustri
Explanation: Why does Comet ATLAS have such colorful tails? Last week Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) passed its closest to the Sun -- well inside the orbit of Mercury -- and brightened dramatically. Unfortunately, the comet was then so angularly near the Sun that it was very hard for humans to see. But NASA's SOHO spacecraft saw it. Pictured is a SOHO (LASCO C3) image of Comet ATLAS that is a composite of several different color filters. Of the several tails visible, the central white tails are likely made of dust and just reflecting back sunlight. The red, blue, and green tails are likely ion tails with their colors dominated by light emitted by specific gases that were ejected from the comet and energized by the Sun. Currently, Comet ATLAS is showing long tails in southern skies but fading as it moves out of the inner Solar System.
19/01/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - A la découverte de l'oreille - Les osselets dans l'oreille
ASTRONOMY - Titan Touchdown: Huygens Descent Movie
2025 January 19
Video Credit: ESA, NASA, JPL, U. Arizona, E. Karkoschka
Explanation: What would it look like to land on Saturn's moon Titan? The European Space Agency's Huygens probe set down on the Solar System's cloudiest moon in 2005, and a time-lapse video of its descent images was created. Huygens separated from the robotic Cassini spacecraft soon after it achieved orbit around Saturn in late 2004 and began approaching Titan. For two hours after arriving, Huygens plummeted toward Titan's surface, recording at first only the shrouded moon's opaque atmosphere. The computerized truck-tire sized probe soon deployed a parachute to slow its descent, pierced the thick clouds, and began transmitting images of a strange surface far below never before seen in visible light. Landing in a dried sea and surviving for 90 minutes, Huygen's returned unique images of a strange plain of dark sandy soil strewn with smooth, bright, fist-sized rocks of ice.
18/01/2025
ASTRONOMY - Full Moon, Full Mars
2025 January 18
Image Credit & Copyright: David Bowman
Explanation: On January 13 a Full Moon and a Full Mars were close, both bright and opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky. In fact Mars was occulted, passing behind the Moon, when viewed from some locations in North America and northwest Africa. As seen from Richmond, Virginia, USA, this composite image sequence follows the evening lunar occultation before, during, and after the much anticipated celestial spectacle. The telescopic time series is constructed from an exposure made every two minutes while tracking the Moon over the hours encompassing the event. As a result, the Red Planet's trajectory seems to follow a gently curved path due to the Moon's slightly different rate of apparent motion. The next lunar occultation of bright planet Mars will be on February 9 when the moon is in a waxing gibbous phase. Lunar occultations are only ever visible from a fraction of the Earth's surface, though. The February 9 occultation of Mars will be seen from parts of Russia, China, eastern Canada, Greenland and other (mostly northern) locations, but a close conjunction of a bright Moon with Mars will be more widely visible from planet Earth.
17/01/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - Cancer du poumon - L'importance d'un diagnostic précoce - 2/2 -
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LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - New York vue de l'ISS
La ville de New York photographiée en 2010 depuis la Station spatiale internationale au cours de l'Expédition 24. © Fyodor Yurchikhin/R...
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2025 February 17 SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California Image Credit & Copyright: Martin LaMontagne Explanation: What's happe...