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06/02/2025
ORNITHOLOGIE - Tyran quiquivi (Pitangus sulphuratus)
ARCHEOLOGIE - Le trésor de Toutânkhamon - Le vase à canopes
ASTRONOMY - IC 2574: Coddington's Nebula
2025 February 6
Image Credit & Copyright: Lorand Fenyes
Explanation: Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small, irregular galaxies form stars too. In fact dwarf galaxy IC 2574 shows clear evidence of intense star forming activity in its telltale reddish regions of glowing hydrogen gas. Just as in spiral galaxies, the turbulent star-forming regions in IC 2574 are churned by stellar winds and supernova explosions spewing material into the galaxy's interstellar medium and triggering further star formation. A mere 12 million light-years distant, IC 2574 is part of the M81 group of galaxies, seen toward the northern constellation Ursa Major. Also known as Coddington's Nebula, the lovely island universe is about 50,000 light-years across, discovered by American astronomer Edwin Coddington in 1898.
05/02/2025
ORNITHOLOGIE - Tanagra à capuchon doré au plumage vibrant
ASTRONOMIE - La belle étreinte entre la Lune et Mars
ASTRONOMY - Comet G3 ATLAS Setting over a Chilean Hill
2025 February 5
Video Credit & Copyright: Gabriel Muñoz
Explanation: Where is Comet ATLAS going? In the featured time-lapse video, the comet is not itself moving very much, but the Earth's rotation makes it appear to be setting over a hill. The Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) sequence was captured with an ordinary camera on January 22 from the Araucanía Region in central Chile. Comet ATLAS has been an impressive site in the evening skies of Earth's Southern Hemisphere over the past few weeks, so bright and awe-inspiring that it may eventually become known as the Great Comet of 2025. Unfortunately, Comet G3 ATLAS is not going anywhere anymore because its central nucleus broke up during its close pass to the Sun last month. Some of the comet's scattered remains of rocks and ice will continue to orbit the Sun, some in nearly the same outward section of the orbit that the comet's nucleus would have taken.
04/02/2025
ARCHEOLOGIE - Le trésor de Toutânkhamon - Les serviteurs du pharaon dans l'au-delà
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ASTRONOMY - Anticrepuscular Rays: A Rainbow Fan over Spain
2025 February 4
Image Credit & Copyright: Julene Eiguren
Explanation: Yes, but can your rainbow do this? Late in the day, the Sun set as usual toward the west. However, on this day, the more interesting display was 180 degrees around -- toward the east. There, not only was a rainbow visible, but an impressive display of anticrepuscular rays from the rainbow's center. In the featured image from Lekeitio in northern Spain, the Sun is behind the camera. The rainbow resulted from sunlight reflecting back from falling rain. Anticrepuscular rays result from sunlight, blocked by some clouds, going all the way around the sky, overhead, and appearing to converge on the opposite horizon -- an optical illusion. Rainbows by themselves can be exciting to see, and anticrepuscular rays a rare treat, but capturing them both together is even more unusual -- and can look both serene and surreal.
03/02/2025
ARCHEOLOGIE - Le trésor de Toutânkhamon - Une tête de félin sacré
ASTRONOMY - Mystery: Little Red Dots in the Early Universe
2025 December 24 Mystery: Little Red Dots in the Early Universe Image Credit: NASA , ESA , CSA , STScI , JWST ; Dale Kocevski ( Colb...
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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...

