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07/05/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - ADN - La métaphase : les chromosomes sont alignés
RADIOACTIVITé - Des déchets radioactifs non confinés à Saint-Pierre (Cantal)
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Les grandes dunes de sable du parc national du Colorado
ASTRONOMY - Galaxy Wars: M81 versus M82
2025 May 7
Image Credit & Copyright: Collaborative Astrophotography Team (CAT)
Explanation: In the upper left corner, surrounded by blue arms and dotted with red nebulas, is spiral galaxy M81. In the lower right corner, marked by a light central line and surrounded by red glowing gas, is irregular galaxy M82. This stunning vista shows these two mammoth galaxies locked in gravitational combat, as they have been for the past billion years. The gravity from each galaxy dramatically affects the other during each hundred-million-year pass. Last go-round, M82's gravity likely raised density waves rippling around M81, resulting in the richness of M81's spiral arms. But M81 left M82 with violent star forming regions and colliding gas clouds so energetic the galaxy glows in X-rays. This big battle is seen from Earth through the faint glow of an Integrated Flux Nebula, a little studied complex of diffuse gas and dust clouds in our Milky Way Galaxy. In a few billion years, only one galaxy will remain.
05/05/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - LE CANCER DU SEIN peut commencer par des signes discrets - Une fatigue qui ne ressemble pas aux autres (5/5)
ASTRONOMY - Planet Lines Across Water
Explanation: What’s causing those lines? Objects in the sky sometimes appear reflected as lines across water — but why? If the water’s surface is smooth, then reflected objects would appear similarly -- as spots. But if the water is choppy, then there are many places where light from the object can reflect off the water and still come to you -- and so together form, typically, a line. The same effect is frequently seen for the Sun just before sunset and just after sunrise. Pictured about 10 days ago in Ibiza, Spain, images of the setting Moon, Venus (top), and Saturn (right, faint) were captured both directly and in line-reflected forms from the Mediterranean Sea. The other bright object on the right with a water-reflected line is a beacon on a rock to warn passing boats.
04/05/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - LE CANCER DU SEIN peut commencer par des signes discrets - Un mamelon qui se rétracte soudainement (4/5)
ASTRONOMY - Spin up of a Supermassive Black Hole
2025 May 4
Illustration Credit: Robert Hurt, NASA/JPL-Caltech
Explanation: How fast can a black hole spin? If any object made of regular matter spins too fast -- it breaks apart. But a black hole might not be able to break apart -- and its maximum spin rate is really unknown. Theorists usually model rapidly rotating black holes with the Kerr solution to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which predicts several amazing and unusual things. Perhaps its most easily testable prediction, though, is that matter entering a maximally rotating black hole should be last seen orbiting at near the speed of light, as seen from far away. This prediction was tested by NASA's NuSTAR and ESA's XMM satellites by observing the supermassive black hole at the center of spiral galaxy NGC 1365. The near light-speed limit was confirmed by measuring the heating and spectral line broadening of nuclear emissions at the inner edge of the surrounding accretion disk. Pictured here is an artist's illustration depicting an accretion disk of normal matter swirling around a black hole, with a jet emanating from the top. Since matter randomly falling into the black hole should not spin up a black hole this much, the NuSTAR and XMM measurements also validate the existence of the surrounding accretion disk.
03/05/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - LE CANCER DU SEIN peut commencer par des signes discrets - Un bras ou la clavicule qui gonfle sans raison
SANTé/MEDECINE - Procédé révolutionnaire dans la lutte contre le cancer - 2/6 : Une découverte qui change tout
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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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La majorité des grêlons qui tombent sous les orages et les averses ne pèsent que quelques grammes. Mais il y a quelques années, c'est un...