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18/04/2025
ANIMAUX - Macaque de Barbarie
ASTRONOMY - Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN
Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett
Explanation: In late March, the comet now designated C/2025 F2 SWAN was found independently by citizen scientists Vladimir Bezugly, Michael Mattiazzo, and Rob Matson while examining publicly available image data from the Solar Wind ANisotropies (SWAN) camera on the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. Comet SWAN's coma, its greenish color a signature of diatomic carbon molecules fluorescing in sunlight, is at lower left in this telescopic image. SWAN's faint ion tail extends nearly two degrees toward the upper right across the field of view. The interplanetary scene was captured in clear but moonlit skies from June Lake, California on April 14. Seen against background of stars toward the constellation Andromeda, the comet was then some 10 light-minutes from our fair planet. Now a target for binoculars and small telescopes in northern hemisphere morning skies this comet SWAN is headed for a perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun, on May 1. That will bring this visitor from the distant Oort cloud almost as close to the Sun as the orbit of inner planet Mercury.
17/04/2025
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Un étonnant glacier « pied d’éléphant »
SANTé/MEDECINE - Traitement du cancer du poumon (Nouvelles perspectives) - Une technologie innovante pour analyser les tissus
ASTRONOMY - Virgo Cluster Galaxies
2025 April 17
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel Adibi
Explanation: Galaxies of the Virgo Cluster are scattered across this nearly 4 degree wide telescopic field of view. About 50 million light-years distant, the Virgo Cluster is the closest large galaxy cluster to our own local galaxy group. Prominent here are Virgo's bright elliptical galaxies from the Messier catalog, M87 at bottom left, and M86 and M84 near center right. M86 and M84 are recognized as part of Markarian's Chain, the visually striking line-up of galaxies on the that runs through the upper portion of this frame. Near the middle of the chain lies an intriguing interacting pair of galaxies, NGC 4438 and NGC 4435, known to some as Markarian's Eyes. Still, giant elliptical galaxy M87 dominates the Virgo cluster. It's the home of a super massive black hole, the first black hole ever imaged by planet Earth's Event Horizon Telescope.
16/04/2025
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Allée de tourbillons de Karman au-dessus de Madère et des îles Canaries
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
ASTRONOMY - A Leaky Solar Prominence
2025 August 26 A Leaky Solar Prominence Video Credit & Copyright: Andrea Girones Explanation: What's hovering above the Sun? A s...
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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 ...