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2015-03-06

Imagens do Mundo - Cheia do rio Ebro - Espanha

Imagen tomada el 2 de marzo, facilitada por Elecnor Deimos, de la crecida del Ebro cerca de Burgo de Ebro (Zaragoza) captada por su satélite Deimos. El agua del río Ebro empieza a regresar a su cauce después de anegar en los pasados días 28.000 hectáreas en Aragón, donde se ha desmovilizado a la Unidad Militar de Emergencias (UME) y donde prosiguen las labores de achique de agua.

Astronomy picture of the day - 06-03-2015 - Cometary Globule CG4

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Cometary Globule CG4
Image Credit & Copyright: CEDIC Team - Processing: Christoph Kaltseis

Explanation: The faint and somehow menacing cometary globule CG4 reaches through the center of this deep southern skyscape. About 1,300 light-years from Earth toward the constellation Puppis, its head is about 1.5 light-years in diameter and its tail about 8 light-years long. That's far larger than the Solar System's comets that it seems to resemble. In fact, the dusty cloud contains enough material to form several Sun-like stars and likely has ongoing star formation within. How its distinctive form came about is still debated, but its long tail trails away from the Vela Supernova remnant near the center of the Gum Nebula, while its head could represent the rupture of an originally more spherical cloud. Still, the edge-on spiral galaxy also near picture center is not actually being threatened by CG4. The galaxy lies in the distant background more than 100 million light-years away.

2015-03-05

Now, it's time to say goodbye - 05-03-2015

CIAO, CIAO, CIAO...

Foto - "Deambulando pela rua St. Ursule" - Toulouse - France

"Deambulando pela rua St. Ursule" - Toulouse

05-03-2015

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Astronomy picture of the day - 05-03-2015 - Enhanced Color Caloris

Enhanced Color Caloris
Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ. APL, Arizona State U., CIW

Explanation: The sprawling Caloris basin on Mercury is one of the solar system's largest impact basins, created during the early history of the solar system by the impact of a large asteroid-sized body. The multi-featured, fracturedbasin spans about 1,500 kilometers in this enhanced color mosaic based on image data from the Mercury-orbiting MESSENGER spacecraft. Mercury's youngest large impact basin, Caloris was subsequently filled in by lavas that appear orange in the mosaic. Craters made after the flooding have excavated material from beneath the surface lavas. Seen as contrasting blue hues, they likely offer a glimpse of the original basin floor material. Analysis of these craters suggests the thickness of the covering volcanic lava to be 2.5-3.5 kilometers. Orange splotches around the basin's perimeter are thought to be volcanic vents.

2015-03-04

Now, it's time to say goodbye - 04-03-2015

CIAO, CIAO, CIAO...

Peter Steps Rabbit terá sido alvo de cinco processos de execução fiscal

Para além de uma dívida já regularizada à Segurança Social, Pedro Passos Coelho terá tido, entre 2003 e 2007, cinco processos de execução fiscal.

Dados sobre estes cinco processos circulam na blogosfera desde 2011, nomeadamente, em blogues como o Verdadeiro Lápis Azul.

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Questionado pelo Observador, o gabinete do primeiro-ministro não esclareceu as razões que levaram à abertura destes processos, que podem dizer respeito tanto a situações de atraso na entrega da declaração de IRS como pagamentos fora do prazo.

O Público revela esta quarta-feira que desde segunda-feira que está a questionar Passos Coelho sobre processos de execução fiscal.

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Observador - Portugal