"Cinderela"
2015-09-11
Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 September 11 - A Giant Squid in the Flying Bat
Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Cannistra (StarryWonders)
Explanation: Very faint but also very large on planet Earth's sky, a giant Squid Nebula cataloged as Ou4, and Sh2-129 also known as the Flying Bat Nebula, are both caught in this scene toward the royal constellation Cepheus.Composed with a total of 20 hours of broadband and narrowband data, the telescopic field of view is almost 4 degrees or 8 Full Moons across. Discovered in 2011 by French astro-imager Nicolas Outters, the Squid Nebula's alluringbipolar shape is distinguished here by the telltale blue-green emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms. Though apparently completely surrounded by the reddish hydrogen emission region Sh2-129, the true distance and nature of the Squid Nebula have been difficult to determine. Still, a recent investigation suggests Ou4 really does lie within Sh2-129 some 2,300 light-years away. Consistent with that scenario, Ou4 would represent a spectacular outflow driven by atriple system of hot, massive stars, cataloged as HR8119, seen near the center of the nebula. If so, the truly giant Squid Nebula would physically be nearly 50 light-years across.
2015-09-10
Texto - "O Pifaro leiteiro" - Documento invulgar do nosso correspondente Peter Abrunheira do Riacho de fevereiro
Preciosidade alentejana. Beja, ano de 1771. Fenomenal! Isto é uma reliquia. Descrição peculiar, num português precioso usado na época . O rapaz usou o pífaro leiteiro ( já tinha ouvido chamar-lhe muitos nomes, este é mais um ) no vaso da rapariga. (so faltava referir as partes fodengas!)
"Vistos os autos, se prova que , indo a autora para a fonte, lhe saiu ao encontro o réu, e, levantando-lhe o faldistério, lhe encaixou o pifaro leiteiro no vaso natural, e, esgaravatando, ficou consumada a desfloração. Portanto condeno o réu a que pague as custas e selos e receba a moça e o absolvo das garras da lei. Beja, 25 de novembro de 1771. O juiz (a) Doutor Manuel da Costa Silva Araujo"
Peter Abrunheira - Riacho de Fevereiro - Europa Lateral
Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 September 10 - Earthrise
Image Credit: Apollo 8, NASA
Explanation: What's that rising over the edge of the Moon? Earth. About 47 years ago, in December of 1968, the Apollo 8 crew flew from the Earth to the Moon and back again. Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anderswere launched atop a Saturn V rocket on December 21, circled the Moon ten times in their command module, and returned to Earth on December 27. The Apollo 8 mission's impressive list of firsts includes: the first humans to journey to the Earth's Moon, the first to fly using the Saturn V rocket, and the first to photograph the Earth from deep space. As the Apollo 8 command module rounded the farside of the Moon, the crew could look toward the lunar horizonand see the Earth appear to rise, due to their spacecraft's orbital motion. Their famous picture of a distant blue Earth above the Moon's limb was a marvelous gift to the world.
2015-09-09
Portugal. “Recevoir les réfugiés qui veulent vivre avec nous, grandir avec nous”
Não devendo, nem querendo, opormo-nos às declaracão do Primeiro ministro de Portugal, nesta matéria, não podemos reprimir o que nos vem ao espirito: os milhões de Portugueses no limiar da miséria...
“Ce que je peux dire, c’est que le Portugal est disponible pour accueillir un plus grand nombre de réfugiés, et j’espère que cette preuve de solidarité et de volontariat existe aussi dans les pays de l’Union Européenne”, a déclaré Miguel Maduro en conférence de presse après l’habituel conseil des ministres, le jeudi 3 septembre. Ses propos sont rapportés par le journal portugais Expresso.
Le ministre adjoint, également en charge du Développement, a précisé que ce choix était soumis à la décision qui doit être prise au niveau européen, surtout en ce qui concerne le nombre de réfugiés que le pays accueillera.
Le Premier ministre, Pedro Passos Coelho, avait annoncé le jeudi 3 septembre que “toute l’Europe” devait “faire plus et mieux pour résoudre le problème des migrations”. Il a rejeté dans le même temps la possibilité que soit mis en cause le principe de liberté de circulation au sein de l’espace européen.
Un Etat différent et plus ambitieux
Le chef du gouvernement considère que ce problème doit être vu et résolu dans les pays dont sont originaires les migrants, comme dans ceux qui se trouvent sur leur chemin. Il a ajouté que les causes qui poussent les migrants à fuir leur pays, comme la faim et la guerre, pouvaient également évoluer à l’avenir.
“Mais pour l’instant, nous avons la responsabilité éthique et morale d’être solidaire avec tous ceux qui font appel à nous, de mieux coordonner nos réponses, sans mettre en péril notre liberté de mouvement, de s’organiser à la fois en Europe pour pouvoir les accueillir mais surtout au Portugal afin de recevoir ceux qui veulent vivre avec nous, lutter avec nous, grandir avec nous et nous aider à faire de ce pays un Etat différent et plus ambitieux”, a conclu le Premier ministre portugais.
Courrier International - France
Conhece todos os miradouros em Lisboa?... Miradouro da Torre de Belém
From the top of Belém Tower there’s a panoramic view of the Tagus flowing into the Atlantic, and of the entire Belém district. You may see the CCB building, the Discoveries Monument, and 25 de Abril Bridge crossing the river.
Do terraço da Torre de Belém tem-se uma ampla vista do rio a desaguar no Atlântico, e de todo o bairro de Belém. Avista-se o CCB, o Padrão dos Descobrimentos, e a Ponte 25 de Abril a atravessar o Tejo.
Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 September 9 - NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide
Image Credit & Copyright: Damian Peach/SEN
Explanation: Astronomers turn detectives when trying to figure out the cause of startling sights like NGC 1316. Their investigation indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started, about 100 million years ago, to devour a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor, NGC 1317, just above it. Supporting evidence includes the dark dust lanes characteristic of a spiral galaxy, and faint swirls and shells of stars and gas visible in this wide and deep image. One thing that remains unexplained is the unusually small globular star clusters, seen as faint dots on the image. Most elliptical galaxies have more and brighter globular clusters than NGC 1316. Yet the observed globulars are too old to have been created by the recent spiral collision. One hypothesis is that these globulars survive from an even earlier galaxy that was subsumed into NGC 1316. Another surprising attribute of NGC 1316, also known as Fornax A, is its giant lobes of gas that glow brightly in radio waves.
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