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30/06/2025
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Le Nil en Égypte et l'activité des villes
SANTé/MEDECINE - Une nouvelle arme contre le cancer - (4/8) - Une lumière capable d’atteindre 10 centimètres sous la peau
ASTRONOMY - NGC 4651: The Umbrella Galaxy
2025 June 30
Image Credit: Rabeea Alkuwari & Anas Almajed
Explanation: It's raining stars. What appears to be a giant cosmic umbrella is now known to be a tidal stream of stars stripped from a small satellite galaxy. The main galaxy, spiral galaxy NGC 4651, is about the size of our Milky Way, while its stellar parasol appears to extend some 100 thousand light-years above this galaxy's bright disk. A small galaxy was likely torn apart by repeated encounters as it swept back and forth on eccentric orbits through NGC 4651. The remaining stars will surely fall back and become part of a combined larger galaxy over the next few million years. The featured deep image was captured in long exposures from Saudi Arabia. The Umbrella Galaxy lies about 50 million light-years distant toward the well-groomed northern constellation of Berenice's Hair (Coma Berenices).
29/06/2025
ASTRONOMY - Dark Sand Cascades on Mars
2025 June 29
Image Credit: NASA, HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona),
Explanation: Are these trees growing on Mars? No. Groups of dark brown streaks have been photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on melting pinkish sand dunes covered with light frost. The featured image was taken in 2008 April near the North Pole of Mars. At that time, dark sand on the interior of Martian sand dunes became more and more visible as the spring Sun melted the lighter carbon dioxide ice. When occurring near the top of a dune, dark sand may cascade down the dune leaving dark surface streaks -- streaks that might appear at first to be trees standing in front of the lighter regions but cast no shadows. Objects about 25 centimeters across are resolved on this image spanning about one kilometer. Close ups of some parts of this image show billowing plumes indicating that the sand slides were occurring even while the image was being taken.
28/06/2025
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL - Tempête dans le désert
SANTé/MEDECINE - Une nouvelle arme contre le cancer - (3/8) - Des vibrations ultra-puissantes en quelques picosecondes
RADIOACTIVITé - 23/06/2025 – Iran : le point après l’attaque des USA

ASTRONOMY - Lunar Farside
2025 June 28
Image Credit: NASA / GSFC / Arizona State Univ. / Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Explanation: Tidally locked in synchronous rotation, the Moon always presents its familiar nearside to denizens of planet Earth. From lunar orbit, the Moon's farside can become familiar, though. In fact this sharp picture, a mosaic from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's wide angle camera, is centered on the lunar farside. Part of a global mosaic of over 15,000 images acquired between November 2009 and February 2011, the highest resolution version shows features at a scale of 100 meters per pixel. Surprisingly, the rough and battered surface of the farside looks very different from the nearside covered with smooth dark lunar maria. A likely explanation is that the farside crust is thicker, making it harder for molten material from the interior to flow to the surface and form dark, smooth maria.
27/06/2025
SANTé/MEDECINE - Une nouvelle arme contre le cancer : Une découverte prometteuse de l’Université Rice (2/8)
LA TERRE VUE DU CIEL- La Péninsule de la Floride
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