Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 January 23 - Winter Hexagon over Manla Reservoir

Winter Hexagon over Manla Reservoir 
Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN)

Explanation: If you can find Orion, you might be able to find the Winter Hexagon. The Winter Hexagon involves some of the brightest stars visible, together forming a large and easily found pattern in the winter sky of Earth's northern hemisphere. The stars involved can usually be identified even in the bright night skies of a big city, although here they appeared recently in dark skies above the Manla Reservoir in Tibet, China. The six stars that compose the Winter Hexagon are Aldebaran, Capella, Castor (and Pollux), Procyon, Rigel, and Sirius. Here, the band of our Milky Way Galaxy runs through the center of the Winter Hexagon, while the Pleiades open star cluster is visible just above. TheWinter Hexagon asterism engulfs several constellations including much of the iconic steppingstone Orion.

Expressões populares portuguesas - Ja a formiga tem catarro

Significado: 

Diz-se a quem pretende ser mais do que é, sobretudo dirigido a crianças ou inexperientes. 

Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 January 22 - SpaceX Falcon 9 to Orbit

SpaceX Falcon 9 to Orbit 
Image Credit & Copyright: Tim Shortt, Florida Today

Explanation: Birds don't fly this high. Airplanes don't go this fast. The Statue of Liberty weighs less. No species other than human can even comprehend what is going on, nor could any human just a millennium ago. The launch of arocket bound for space is an event that inspires awe and challenges description. Pictured here, a SpaceX Falcon 9 V rocket lifted off through a cloud deck from Cape Canaveral, Florida last July to deliver cargo and supplies to theInternational Space Station. From a standing start, the 300,000+ kilogram rocket ship lifted its Dragon Capsule up to circle the Earth, where the outside air is too thin to breathe. Rockets bound for space are now launched from somewhere on Earth about once a week.

Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 January 21 - Daphnis the Wavemaker

Daphnis the Wavemaker 
Image Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA

Explanation: Plunging close to the outer edges of Saturn's rings, on January 16 the Cassini spacecraft captured this closest yet view of Daphnis. About 8 kilometers across and orbiting within the bright ring system's Keeler gap, the small moon is making waves. The 42-kilometer wide outer gap is foreshortened in the image by Cassini's viewing angle. Raised by the influenced of the small moon's weak gravity as it crosses the frame from left to right, the waves are formed in the ring material at the edge of the gap. A faint wave-like trace of ring material is just visible trailing close behind Daphnis. Remarkable details on Daphnis can also be seen, including a narrow ridge around its equator, likely an accumulation of particles from the ring.

Artigo - Acidente de autocarro em Itália faz pelo menos 16 mortos

Pelo menos 16 pessoas morreram e cerca de 40 ficaram feridas depois de um autocarro que transportava estudantes húngaros, numa auto-estrada no Norte de Itália, se ter incendiado. A informação é avançada pela polícia local neste sábado.

O chefe da brigada de trânsito da cidade de Verona, Girolamo Lacquaniti, disse que a maioria dos passageiros eram estudantes adolescentes e os seus pais.

Lacquaniti afirmou ainda, em declarações à estação de televisão SkyTG 24, que o autocarro resvalou para fora da via nesta noite, nas proximidades de uma saída da auto-estrada.

As imagens de televisão mostram um autocarro tragado pelas chamas.

Publico - Portugal

Expressões populares portuguesas - Fazer tijolo

Significado:

Morrer. 

Origem: 

Segundo se diz, existiu um velho cemitério mouro para as bandas das Olarias, Bombarda e Forno do Tijolo. O almacávar, isto é, o cemitério mourisco, alastrava-se numa grande extensão por toda a encosta, lavado de ar e coberto de arvoredo. Após o terramoto de 1755, começando a reedificação da cidade, o barro era pouco para as construções e daí aproveitar-se todo o que aparecesse. O cemitério árabe foi tão amplamente explorado que, de mistura com a excelente terra argilosa, iam também as ossadas para fazer tijolo. Assim, é frequente ouvir-se a expressão popular em frases como esta: 'Daqui a dez anos já eu estou a fazer tijolo '. in 'Dicionário de Expressões Correntes' ; Orlando Neves

Artigo - Obrigado Soares

C’est avec cette une que le quotidien portugais Público rend hommage à “l’homme, l’homme politique, le penseur, le fondateur de la démocratie. Qui a vécu et fait vivre le changement. Il sera présent dans les livres d’Histoire, et ce sera l’histoire de quelqu’un qui n’a jamais baissé les bras”, indique le journal dans les pages de son édition spéciale.

Après le décès à l’âge de 92 ans, samedi 7 janvier, de l’ancien président socialiste Mario Soares, le Portugal est en deuil et les hommages se multiplient.

Mario Soares a connu l’exil, avant de revenir pour participer à l’avènement de la démocratie après la révolution des Oeillets en avril 1974, qui avait conduit à la chute de la dictature salazariste. Il a travaillé à la sortie de l’isolement du Portugal, puis à l’intégration européenne du pays. Il a été le fondateur du Parti socialiste portugais, ministre des Affaires étrangères, deux fois chef de gouvernement, président de la République de 1986 à 1996, et député européen.

Il est encore illustré ces dernières années en se portant candidat aux présidentielles portugaises de janvier 2006, en plus récemment, en critiquant avec virulence les mesures d’austérité mises en place par l’ancien gouvernement de centre droit entre 2010 et 2015.

Courrier International - France

Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 January 20 - Layer Cake Sunset

Layer Cake Sunset 
Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN)

Explanation: On January 18 a tantalizing sunset was captured in this snapshot. Seemingly sliced into many horizontal layers the Sun shimmered moments before it touched the horizon, setting over the Pacific Ocean as seen from themountaintop Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Pink hues of filtered sunlight were created by the long sight-line through the hazy atmosphere. But the remarkable layers correspond to low atmospheric layers of sharply different temperature and density also along the line of sight. Over a long path through each layer the rays of sunlight are refracted strongly and create different images or mirages of sections of the setting Sun.

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"Do fundo da alma"

Astronomy picture of the day - 2017 January 19 - The Elephant's Trunk Nebula in Cepheus

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula in Cepheus 
Image Credit & Copyright: Stephen Leshin

Explanation: Like an illustration in a galactic Just So Story, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula winds through the emission nebula and young star cluster complex IC 1396, in the high and far off constellation of Cepheus. Also known as vdB 142, the cosmic elephant's trunk is over 20 light-years long. This colorful close-up view includes image data from a narrow band filter that transmits the light from ionized hydrogen atoms in the region. The resulting composite highlights the bright swept-back ridges that outline pockets of cool interstellar dust and gas. Such embedded, dark, tendril-shaped clouds contain the raw material for star formation and hide protostars within. Nearly 3,000 light-years distant, the relatively faint IC 1396 complex covers a large region on the sky, spanning over 5 degrees. This dramatic scene spans a 1 degree wide field, about the size of 2 Full Moons.