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16/04/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - Traitement du cancer du poumon (Nouvelles perspectives) - Le glycogène : un acteur clé (2/8)
SANTé/MEDECINE - Traitement du cancer du poumon (Nouvelles perspectives)
ASTRONOMY - Halo of the Cat's Eye
2025 April 16
Image Credit & Copyright: Taavi Niittee (Tõrva Astronomy Club)
Explanation: What created the unusual halo around the Cat's Eye Nebula? No one is sure. What is sure is that the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae on the sky. Although haunting symmetries are seen in the bright central region, this image was taken to feature its intricately structured outer halo, which spans over three light-years across. Planetary nebulae have long been appreciated as a final phase in the life of a Sun-like star. Only recently however, have some planetaries been found to have expansive halos, likely formed from material shrugged off during earlier puzzling episodes in the star's evolution. While the planetary nebula phase is thought to last for around 10,000 years, astronomers estimate the age of the outer filamentary portions of the Cat's Eye Nebula's halo to be 50,000 to 90,000 years.
15/04/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - ADN - L’ADN avant séquençage sous des rayons ultraviolets
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Les dunes en étoile du Grand Erg Oriental (Algérie)
ANIMAUX - Le macaque rhésus
ASTRONOMY - Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. E. Ressler (JPL) et al.; Processing: Judy Schmidt
Explanation: What happens when a star runs out of nuclear fuel? For stars like our Sun, the center condenses into a white dwarf while the outer atmosphere is expelled into space to appear as a planetary nebula. The expelled outer atmosphere of planetary nebula NGC 1514 appears to be a jumble of bubbles -- when seen in visible light. But the view from the James Webb Space Telescope in infrared, as featured here, confirms a different story: in this light the nebula shows a distinct hourglass shape, which is interpreted as a cylinder seen along a diagonal. If you look closely at the center of the nebula, you can also see a bright central star that is part of a binary system. More observations might better reveal how this nebula is evolving and how the central stars are working together to produce the interesting cylinder and bubbles observed.
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.
ASTRONOMY - Moonlight, Planets, and Perseids
2025 August 15 Moonlight, Planets, and Perseids Image Credit & Copyright : Jeff Dai ( TWAN ) Explanation: In the predawn sky on A...

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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 January 14 North Star: Polaris and Surrounding Dust Image Credit & Copyright: Davide Coverta Explanation: Why is Polaris called ...