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2015-11-12
Portugal. Le gouvernement de l'austérité est tombé
“11 jours, 5 heures et 40 minutes” titre ce 11 novembre le quotidien portugais Jornal de Notícias, insistant ainsi sur la durée extraordinaire du “plus court gouvernement de l’histoire de la démocratie portugaise”. La une laisse également la part belle à une photographie du premier ministre Pedro Passos Coelho, semblant quitter le parlement.
En effet, le 10 novembre dernier, trois motions de censures ont été déposées par les formations de gauche, majoritaires au parlement portugais, afin de désavouer le nouveau gouvernement de la coalition de droite. Le président Aníbal Cavaco Silva se voit maintenant dans l’obligation de nommer António costa, leader du Parti socialiste, comme Premier ministre.
Les élections du 4 octobre dernier avaient débouché sur une situation inédite, avec d’un côté une victoire de la coalition de droite et de l’autre une nouvelle majorité de gauche au parlement portugais divisée dans trois différents partis. Le 30 octobre dernier, le président portugais avait tout de même nommé un gouvernement de droite minoritaire, en fait le fac similé du précédent, avec à sa tête le premier ministre Pedro Passos Coelho.
Un accord historique
Devant l’opportunité de débouter le gouvernement pro-austérité, les différentes formations de gauche ont oeuvré pendant des semaines à un accord qualifié “d’historique” par le Jornal de Notícias. Cet accord revient en effet sur un bon nombre de mesures d’autérité prises pendant la précédente législature.
Pour le quotidien, le Président “a une nouvelle fois le dernier mot à dire dans la finalisation du processus” mais “après la chute du gouvernement, c’est [António] Costa qui attend Cavaco [Silva]”.
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Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 November 12 - Kenya Morning Moon, Planets, and Taurid
Image Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)
Explanation: On November 8, a waning crescent Moon joined the continuing parade of planets in Earth's morning skies. Captured here from Amboseli National Park, Kenya, even the overexposed moonlight can't washout brilliant Venus though, lined up near the ecliptic plane with faint Mars and bright Jupiter above. As if Moon and planets aren't enough, a comparably bright Taurid meteor also streaks through the scene. In fact November's Taurid meteor showers have had a high proportion of bright fireballs. Apparently streaming from radiants in Taurus, the meteors are caused by our fair planet's annual passage through debris from Comet 2P/Encke. The comet's dust grains are catching up with Earth's atmosphere at a relatively low speed of about 27 kilometers per second.
2015-11-11
Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 November 11 - An Unexpected Rocket Plume over San Francisco
Image Credit & Copyright: Abe Blair (Abe Blair Gallery)
Explanation: What is that unusual light in the sky? A common question, this particular light was not only bright but moving and expanding. It appeared just as the astrophotographer and his friend were photographing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California against a more predictable night sky. They were not alone in seeing this unusual display -- at least hundreds of people in California reported a similar sight. The consensus of experienced sky observers was that the plume resulted from a rocket launch -- an explanation that was soon confirmed as an unpublicized test of a submarine-launched, unarmed, Trident II D5 nuclear missile. Such tests are not uncommon but do not usually occur just after sunset near a major metropolitan area -- when they are particularly noticeable to many people. Were plume images not posted to the Internet and quickly identified, such a sky spectacle might have been understood by some to be associated with more grandiose -- but incorrect -- explanations.
2015-11-10
Astronomy picture of the day - 2015 November 10 - AE Aurigae and the Flaming Star Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Jesús Vargas (Sky-Astrophotography) & Maritxu Poyal (Maritxu)
Explanation: Is star AE Aurigae on fire? No. Even though AE Aurigae is named the flaming star, the surrounding nebula IC 405 is named the Flaming Star Nebula, and the region appears to have the color of fire, there is no fire. Fire, typically defined as the rapid molecular acquisition of oxygen, happens only when sufficient oxygen is present and is not important in such high-energy, low-oxygen environments such as stars. The material that appears as smoke is mostly interstellar hydrogen, but does contain smoke-like dark filaments of carbon-rich dust grains. The bright star AE Aurigae, visible toward the right near the nebula's center, is so hot it is blue, emitting light so energetic it knockselectrons away from surrounding gas. When a proton recaptures an electron, light is emitted, as seen in the surrounding emission nebula. Pictured above, the Flaming Star nebula lies about 1,500 light years distant, spans about 5 light years, and is visible with a small telescope toward the constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga).
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