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17/02/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - Le cerveau - Épines dendritiques d'un neurone
ASTRONOMY - SpaceX Rocket Launch Plume over California
2025 February 17
Image Credit & Copyright: Martin LaMontagne
Explanation: What's happened to the sky? Last Monday, the photogenic launch plume from a SpaceX rocket launch created quite a spectacle over parts of southern California and Arizona. Looking at times like a giant space fish, the impressive rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, California, was so bright because it was backlit by the setting Sun. The Falcon 9 rocket successfully delivered to low Earth orbit 23 Starlink communications satellites. The plume from the first stage is seen on the right, while the soaring upper stage rocket is seen at the apex of the plume toward the left. Venus appears at the top of the frame, while a bright streetlight shines on the far right. The featured image was captured toward the west after sunset from near Phoenix, Arizona.
16/02/2025
ASTRONOMIE - Observer Vénus, la brillante étoile du Berger
L’éclat important de Vénus ressort sur cette photo prise à la plage de la Verne à La Seyne sur Mer : une accumulation de plusieurs poses fait apparaître les étoiles peu brillantes tandis que la lumière de Vénus se diffuse en halo et en reflet sur la mer. Image : F. Xavier Cuvelier – Concours photo Stelvision
Vous connaissez certainement l’étoile du Berger : il s’agit de la planète Vénus ! Étincelante certains soirs à l’ouest ou certains matins à l’est, elle fascine et subjugue…
Vénus : l’astre le plus brillant après la Lune et le Soleil !
Le Soleil éclaire la planète Vénus vivement car elle en est assez proche. Comme des nuages clairs la recouvrent entièrement, elle nous renvoie une bonne partie de la lumière qu’elle reçoit, ce qui explique son éclat singulier.
Pour les familiers de l’échelle des magnitudes, qui caractérise l’éclat des astres, Vénus descend fréquemment en dessous de la magnitude -4. Une luminosité qui surpasse nettement Sirius, l’étoile la plus brillante du ciel, dont la magnitude est de -1,5 (les nombres petits ou négatifs indiquent un fort éclat).
Pourquoi appelle-t-on Vénus l’étoile du Berger ?
Vénus brille si intensément que lorsqu’elle est visible, c’est la première « étoile » à apparaître dans le ciel après le coucher du Soleil ou au contraire la dernière à disparaître à l’aube. On peut donc supposer que les bergers ont toujours été très familiers de cet astre particulier qui marque le début ou la fin de la journée avec leur troupeau.
À l’œil nu, son aspect est celui d’une étoile même s’il s’agit bien d’une planète : contrairement aux étoiles qui émettent leur propre lumière, Vénus réfléchit celle du Soleil.
15/02/2025
ASTRONOMY - Parhelia at Abisko
2025 February 15
Image Credit & Copyright: Felipe Menzella
Explanation: Three suns seem to hug the horizon in this otherworldly winterscape. But the evocative scene was captured during a February 3rd snowmobile exploration of the mountainous region around Abisko National Park, northern Sweden, planet Earth. The two bright spots on either side of Earth's Sun are parhelia (singular parhelion), also known as mock suns or sun dogs. The parhelia are caused by hexagonal ice crystals suspended in the hazy atmosphere that reflect and refract sunlight. Commonly seen in winter and at high latitudes, the bright parhelia lie along the visible 22 degree ice halo of the Sun.
14/02/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - Le cerveau - Les cellules de Purkinje - des neurones du cervelet
ASTRONOMY - A Cosmic Rose: NGC 2237 in Monoceros
2025 February 14
Image Credit & Copyright: Harry Karamitsos
Explanation: The Rosette Nebula, NGC 2237, is not the only cosmic cloud of gas and dust to evoke the imagery of flowers, but it is probably the most famous. At the edge of a large molecular cloud in Monoceros some 5,000 light years away, the petals of this cosmic rose are actually a stellar nursery. The lovely, symmetric shape is sculpted by the winds and radiation from its central cluster of hot young, O-type stars. Stars in the energetic cluster, cataloged as NGC 2244, are only a few million years young, while the central cavity in the Rosette Nebula, is about 50 light-years in diameter. The nebula can be seen with a small telescope toward the constellation of Monoceros, the Unicorn. This natural appearing telescopic portrait of the Rosette Nebula was made using broadband color filters, but sometimes roses aren't red.
13/02/2025
ARCHEOLOGIE - Le trésor de Toutânkhamon - La Maison d’éternité du pharaon
ASTRONOMY - Reflections on VdB 31
2025 February 13
Image Credit & Copyright: Roberto Marinoni
Explanation: Riding high in the constellation of Auriga, beautiful, blue VdB 31 is the 31st object in Sidney van den Bergh's 1966 catalog of reflection nebulae. It shares this well-composed celestial still life with dark, obscuring clouds B26, B27, and B28, recorded in Edward E. Barnard's 1919 catalog of dark markings in the sky. All are these nebulae are interstellar dust clouds. Barnard's dark nebulae block the light from background stars. For VdB 31 the dust preferentially reflects bluish starlight from embedded, hot, variable star AB Aurigae. Exploring the environs of AB Aurigae with the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the several million year young star is itself surrounded by a flattened dusty disk with evidence for the ongoing formation of a planetary system. AB Aurigae is about 470 light-years away. At that distance this cosmic canvas would span about eight light-years.
12/02/2025
ASTRONOMIE - Observer Mars - La mythique planète rouge
SANTé/MEDECINE - Le cerveau - Reconstitution tridimensionnelle d'une boîte crânienne
ASTRONOMY - Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree
2025 December 25 Unicorn, Fox Fur and Christmas Tree Image Credit & Copyright : Michael Kalika Explanation: A star forming region ...
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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...



