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27/10/2025
VULCANOLOGIE - L'avenir de la recherche sur les volcans sous-marins
26/10/2025
ASTRONOMY - Phantoms in Cassiopeia
2024 October 26
Image Credit & Copyright: Christophe Vergnes, Hervé Laur
Explanation: These brightly outlined flowing shapes look ghostly on a cosmic scale. A telescopic view toward the constellation Cassiopeia, the colorful skyscape features the swept-back, comet-shaped clouds IC 59 (left) and IC 63. About 600 light-years distant, the clouds aren't actually ghosts. They are slowly disappearing though, under the influence of energetic radiation from hot, luminous star gamma Cas. Gamma Cas is physically located only 3 to 4 light-years from the nebulae and lies just above the right edge of the frame. Slightly closer to gamma Cas, IC 63 is dominated by red H-alpha light emitted as hydrogen atoms ionized by the hot star's ultraviolet radiation recombine with electrons. Farther from the star, IC 59 shows less H-alpha emission but more of the characteristic blue tint of dust reflected star light. The field of view spans over 1 degree or 10 light-years at the estimated distance of the interstellar apparitions.
CATASTROPHES NATURELLES - Un Mégatsunami de 500 mètres frappe l’Alaska
25/10/2025
POLYCHROMIE - La couleur et ses mystères
24/10/2025
ASTRONOMY - Porphyrion: The Longest Known Black Hole Jets
2024 October 1
Animation Credit: Science Communication Lab for Martijn Oei et al., Caltech
Explanation: How far can black hole jets extend? A new record was found just recently with the discovery of a 23-million light-year long jet pair from a black hole active billions of years ago. Dubbed Porphyrion for a mythological Greek giant, the impressive jets were created by a type of black hole that does not usually create long jets -- one that is busy creating radiation from infalling gas. The featured animated video depicts what it might look like to circle around this powerful black hole system. Porphyrion is shown as a fast stream of energetic particles, and the bright areas are where these particles are impacting surrounding gas. The discovery was made using data from the Keck and Mayall (DESI) optical observatories as well as LOFAR and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope. The existence of these jets demonstrates that black holes can affect not only their home galaxies but far out into the surrounding universe.
22/10/2025
ASTRONOMY - M16: Pillars of Star Creation
2024 October 22
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Processing: Diego Pisano
Explanation: These dark pillars may look destructive, but they are creating stars. This pillar-capturing picture of the Eagle Nebula combines visible light exposures taken with the Hubble Space Telescope with infrared images taken with the James Webb Space Telescope to highlight evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs) emerging from pillars of molecular hydrogen gas and dust. The giant pillars are light years in length and are so dense that interior gas contracts gravitationally to form stars. At each pillar's end, the intense radiation of bright young stars causes low density material to boil away, leaving stellar nurseries of dense EGGs exposed. The Eagle Nebula, associated with the open star cluster M16, lies about 7000 light years away.
19/10/2025
OCEANOGRAPHIE - Vagues scélérates - La vague Draupner ou Vague du Nouvel-An - 4/29 -
17/10/2025
ASTRONOMIE - Collisions avec la Terre - Meteor Crater (États-Unis)
ASTRONOMIE - Bénou - Équivalent à 22 bombes atomiques
16/10/2025
ASTRONOMY - Colorful Aurora over New Zealand
2024 October 16
Image Credit & Copyright: Tristian McDonald
Explanation: Sometimes the night sky is full of surprises. Take the sky over Lindis Pass, South Island, New Zealand one-night last week. Instead of a typically calm night sky filled with constant stars, a busy and dynamic night sky appeared. Suddenly visible were pervasive red aurora, green picket-fence aurora, a red SAR arc, a STEVE, a meteor, and the Moon. These outshone the center of our Milky Way Galaxy and both of its two satellite galaxies: the LMC and SMC. All of these were captured together on 28 exposures in five minutes, from which this panorama was composed. Auroras lit up many skies last week, as a Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun unleashed a burst of particles toward our Earth that created colorful skies over latitudes usually too far from the Earth's poles to see them. More generally, night skies this month have other surprises, showing not only auroras -- but comets.
Astronomy - HICKSON 44 IN LEO
2026 March 27 Hickson 44 in Leo Image Credit & Copyright : Peter Kennett Explanation: Scanning the skies for galaxies, Canadian astr...
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2025 May 11 The Surface of Venus from Venera 14 Image Credit: Soviet Planetary Exploration Program , Venera 14 ; Processing & Copyri...
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2022 September 26 All the Water on Planet Earth Illustration Credit: Jack Cook, Adam Nieman, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ; Data ...


