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14/04/2025
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Le mont Pavlof. Le volcan le plus actif d'Alaska
SANTé/MEDECINE - ADN - L’ADN du ver Caenorhabditis elegans marqué au Dapi
ASTRONOMY - The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT
2025 April 14
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, SARAO, S. Crowe (UVA), J. Bally (CU), R. Fedriani (IAA-CSIC), I. Heywood (Oxford)
Explanation: What's happening at the center of our galaxy? It's hard to tell with optical telescopes since visible light is blocked by intervening interstellar dust. In other bands of light, though, such as radio, the galactic center can be imaged and shows itself to be quite an interesting and active place. The featured picture shows an image of our Milky Way's center by the MeerKAT array of 64 radio dishes in South Africa. Spanning four times the angular size of the Moon (2 degrees), the image is impressively vast, deep, and detailed. Many known sources are shown in clear detail, including many with a prefix of Sgr, since the galactic center is in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. In our galaxy's center lies Sgr A, found here in the image center, which houses the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. Other sources in the image are not as well understood, including the Arc, just to the left of Sgr A, and numerous filamentary threads. The inset image shows a small patch recently imaged in infrared light with the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate the effects of magnetic fields on star formation.
13/04/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - ADN - Voir l'ADN à l'œil nu grâce à la précipitation en pelote
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Le cratère de Serra da Cangalha au Brésil
ASTRONOMY - An Unusual Hole in Mars
2025 April 13
Image Credit: NASA, MRO, HiRISE, JPL, U. Arizona
Explanation: What created this unusual hole in Mars? Actually, there are numerous holes pictured in this Swiss cheese-like landscape, with all-but-one of them showing a dusty, dark, Martian terrain beneath evaporating, light, carbon dioxide ice. The most unusual hole is on the upper right, spans about 100 meters, and seems to punch through to a lower level. Why this hole exists and why it is surrounded by a circular crater remains a topic of speculation, although a leading hypothesis is that it was created by a meteor impact. Holes such as this are of particular interest because they might be portals to lower levels that extend into expansive underground caves. If so, these naturally occurring tunnels are relatively protected from the harsh surface of Mars, making them relatively good candidates to contain Martian life. These pits are therefore also prime targets for possible future spacecraft, robots, and even human interplanetary explorers.
12/04/2025
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Le mont Saint Helens après éruption
ASTRONOMY - Moon Near the Edge
2025 April 12
Image Credit & Copyright: Jordi Coy
Explanation: Most of us watch the Moon at night. But the Moon spends nearly as many daylight hours above our horizon, though in bright daytime skies the lunar disk looks pale and can be a little harder to see. Of course in daytime skies the Moon also appears to cycle through its phases, shining by reflected sunlight as it orbits our fair planet. For daytime moonwatchers, the Moon is probably easier to spot when the visible sunlit portion of the lunar disk is large and waxing following first quarter or waning approaching its third quarter phase. And though it might look unusual, a daytime moon is often seen even in urban skies. Captured here in a telephoto snapshot taken on March 12, a waxing daytime Moon is aligned near the edge of a popular observation deck that overlooks New York City's borough of Manahattan.
11/04/2025
ASTRONOMIE - À l’œil nu : Mars s’aligne avec Castor et Pollux les 10 et 11 avril 2025
ANIMAUX - Un groupe de macaques bonnet
ASTRONOMY - Juno Flyby of Ganymede and Jupiter
2025 December 14 Juno Flyby of Ganymede and Jupiter Video Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , SWRI , MSSS ; Animation: Koji Kuramura , Geral...
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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...


