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Prof. hon. Le Cnam, 👨‍🎓ESPCI Physicochimiste http://bit.ly/2J5gk2Y #couleur #lumière #optique #luminescence #fluorescence Diffusion de la science – ☕ Membre du Café des sciences Blog “Questions de couleurs" https://questionsdecouleur.wordpress

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volcan etna en éruption de nuit

volcan etna en éruption de nuit

Vous voulez du beau aujourd'hui ?

Voici l'Etna (Sicile) photographié par Gianluca Gianferrari lauréat du grand prix photo de HIPA.
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06.02.2026 12:13 — 👍 81    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 0

"Je suis de ceux qui pensent que la science est d'une grande beauté.

Un scientifique dans son laboratoire est, non seulement un technicien, il est aussi un enfant placé devant des phénomènes naturels qui l'impressionnent comme des contes de fées."

Marie Curie

06.02.2026 10:08 — 👍 172    🔁 36    💬 7    📌 0

You can also see History of Quantim Dots
➡️ youtu.be/6qEWG8xu6wQ?...

02.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Thamserku right there, all snowy and razor-sharp in Nepal, and above it this cloud that looks straight out of a dream. Pale pink, light green, turquoise fading into almost-nothing violet, all happening along the edges—like the light just shattered into little colored bits.It's not a full rainbow, nah, just pieces of one. Tiny tiny droplets, all the same size, scattering the sun in exactly that way. The mountain underneath stays freezing, white and icy blue, but the cloud is glowing warm, almost unreal, with that low sun hitting it from behind.

Thamserku right there, all snowy and razor-sharp in Nepal, and above it this cloud that looks straight out of a dream. Pale pink, light green, turquoise fading into almost-nothing violet, all happening along the edges—like the light just shattered into little colored bits.It's not a full rainbow, nah, just pieces of one. Tiny tiny droplets, all the same size, scattering the sun in exactly that way. The mountain underneath stays freezing, white and icy blue, but the cloud is glowing warm, almost unreal, with that low sun hitting it from behind.

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Do you know the effect called cloud iridescence or irisation?🧪

When parts of clouds are thin and have similar size droplets, diffraction can make them shine with colours like a corona.🔭

In fact, the colours are essentially corona fragments. ⚛️

➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap14070...

#sky #Nature

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27.01.2026 15:56 — 👍 90    🔁 23    💬 2    📌 1

Le vert des plumes d'oiseaux résulte de la superposition du jaune d'un pigment et du bleu structurel résultant de la diffusion de la lumière par les barbules.
C'est le cas notamment de la perruche verte. Si le pigment jaune n'est pas produit en raison d'une mutation génétique, la perruche est bleue.

23.01.2026 18:06 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
A rainbow of red light over land

A rainbow of red light over land

A rainbow of red light over land

A rainbow of red light over land

Just observed a “red rainbow”, a rainbow of atmospherically refracted red/orange light just prior to sunrise.

📸 @stephanieg3.bsky.social

22.01.2026 15:13 — 👍 128    🔁 18    💬 3    📌 0

Dans ce débat sur La nuit étoilée de Van Gogh, on oublie de dire que ce peintre, passionné d’astronomie, lisait régulièrement la revue L’Astronomie, éditée par son ami Camille Flammarion, revue dans laquelle figuraient des représentations de "nébuleuses cosmiques". Son inspiration vient de là !

23.01.2026 08:07 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trois choses à savoir sur les aurores boréales

Que se cache-t-il derrière les aurores boréales ?
Jean Lilensten, astronome et planétologue, décrypte les trois choses à savoir pour comprendre les aurores boréales.

20.01.2026 22:51 — 👍 22    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

Merci d'avoir pensé à moi !
N'étant pas abonné à Sciences et Avenir, je ne peux pas me procurer cet article, mais je dispose d'une large documentation sur ce sujet que j'ai traité en détail dans mon livre "Lumière et luminescence".

21.01.2026 10:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Color isn’t real the way you think it is.

It’s a private hallucination your brain creates from three cleverly overlapping sensors in your eyes.

The author explains it so cleanly it hurts (in a good way).

150th color post. Don’t miss it.🧪 ⚛️

#ColorPerception #Optics #Light #Science #VisionScience

12.01.2026 14:05 — 👍 51    🔁 19    💬 7    📌 2

Thank you so much for your nice comments on my post.

12.01.2026 20:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Slender glowing ribbon of gas, tilted like a narrow pencil, stretches diagonally through the deep space. Delicate red and blue threads weave and shimmer along its sharp form, brightest at the upper-right tip. Distant stars dot the void behind, dominated by the red of ionized hydrogen.

Slender glowing ribbon of gas, tilted like a narrow pencil, stretches diagonally through the deep space. Delicate red and blue threads weave and shimmer along its sharp form, brightest at the upper-right tip. Distant stars dot the void behind, dominated by the red of ionized hydrogen.

What is this? Maybe a painting?

No!

It's about NGC 2736, or Pencil Nebula, a small part of the Vela Supernova Remnant. 🔭

It's thought to be formed from part of its shock wave, plowing through interstellar space at over 500,000 km per hour!

Image by Greg Turgeon & Utkarsh Mishra

🧪 #science 1/3

11.01.2026 18:05 — 👍 119    🔁 37    💬 5    📌 2

Rien d'autre qu'un nuancier pour la couture.

12.01.2026 07:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
La Lune et le Soleil sont chacun entourés d'un ensemble complexe de halos de glace sur ces photos du ciel au-dessus de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, et enregistrées une nuit (à gauche) et le lendemain, à la fin du mois de décembre 2025.

La Lune et le Soleil sont chacun entourés d'un ensemble complexe de halos de glace sur ces photos du ciel au-dessus de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, et enregistrées une nuit (à gauche) et le lendemain, à la fin du mois de décembre 2025.

La réflexion de la lumière dans les particules de glace en suspension dans l'atmosphère donnent parfois lieu à des phénomènes lumineux magnifiques entourant la Lune ou le Soleil (ci-dessous).

On les appelle respectivement parasélènes et parhélies.

www.cidehom.com/apod.php?_da...

09.01.2026 12:48 — 👍 40    🔁 11    💬 4    📌 0
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Que sont les couleurs ? Retour aux fondamentaux Pour le 150ème billet de ce blog consacré aux couleurs, il n’est pas inutile de revenir aux fondamentaux, car force est de constater que les propos sur le concept de couleur sont souvent imprécis e…

QUE SONT LES COULEURS ?
Vaste question d’une immense difficulté.
Pour le 150ème billet de mon blog consacré aux couleurs, un retour aux fondamentaux me paraît utile.
⤵️ tinyurl.com/yszsbec8

10.01.2026 10:14 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Tous mes vœux pour une très belle année haute en couleur !

📷 B. Valeur

03.01.2026 14:09 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Trees on a hilltop are seen in a starry sky but with clouds on the far horizon. A strange red circular band of light is seen in the sky. Near this band's center, some bright jellyfish like structures are visible. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

Trees on a hilltop are seen in a starry sky but with clouds on the far horizon. A strange red circular band of light is seen in the sky. Near this band's center, some bright jellyfish like structures are visible. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 Red Sprites and Circular Elves Lightning over Italy

Image Credit & Copyright: Valter Binotto

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...

23.12.2025 08:00 — 👍 259    🔁 79    💬 5    📌 7
The image shows a celestial spectacle over Manitoba, Canada, on a cold winter morning. The moonlight, refracted, reflected and diffracted by millions of falling ice crystals, creates extraordinary optical phenomena. At the center, the Moon is surrounded by a colored halo, called the corona, generated by the diffraction of small droplets of water or ice. A 22-degree halo is seen around it, formed by the refraction of moonlight through six-sided cylindrical ice crystals. On either side of the moon are "moon dogs," bright spots caused by the refraction of light through thin, hexagonal ice plates floating toward the ground. Above and below the 22-degree halo are upper and lower tangent arcs, created by refraction through nearly horizontal ice cylinders. The sky, captured in three combined exposures, appears surreal, transforming the moon into an icon of another world.

The image shows a celestial spectacle over Manitoba, Canada, on a cold winter morning. The moonlight, refracted, reflected and diffracted by millions of falling ice crystals, creates extraordinary optical phenomena. At the center, the Moon is surrounded by a colored halo, called the corona, generated by the diffraction of small droplets of water or ice. A 22-degree halo is seen around it, formed by the refraction of moonlight through six-sided cylindrical ice crystals. On either side of the moon are "moon dogs," bright spots caused by the refraction of light through thin, hexagonal ice plates floating toward the ground. Above and below the 22-degree halo are upper and lower tangent arcs, created by refraction through nearly horizontal ice cylinders. The sky, captured in three combined exposures, appears surreal, transforming the moon into an icon of another world.

🔭 🧪 ⚛️ #sciart

This breathtaking photo by Brent Mckean features a few atmospheric optics phenomena due to refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals.

Image source➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20022...

04.04.2025 22:49 — 👍 237    🔁 52    💬 9    📌 4
L'histoire des boîtes quantiques
YouTube video by C2N Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies L'histoire des boîtes quantiques

History of Quantum Dots: It was a pleasure to collaborate to this movie on the history of quantum dots. Produced as part of of the PÉPITES program of the French Optical Society, SFO. @c2n-nanos.bsky.social

youtu.be/p89chOVElSA?...

14.12.2025 20:03 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
In a Finnish myth, when an arctic fox runs so fast that its bushy tail brushes the mountains, flaming sparks are cast into the heavens creating the northern lights. In fact the Finnish word "revontulet", a name for the aurora borealis or northern lights, can be translated as fire fox. So that evocative myth took on a special significance for the photographer of this northern night skyscape from Finnish Lapland near Kilpisjarvi Lake. The snowy scene is illuminated by moonlight. Saana, an iconic fell or mountain of Lapland, rises at the right in the background. But as the beautiful nothern lights danced overhead, the wild fire fox in the foreground enthusiastically ran around the photographer and his equipment, making it difficult to capture in this lucky single shot.

In a Finnish myth, when an arctic fox runs so fast that its bushy tail brushes the mountains, flaming sparks are cast into the heavens creating the northern lights. In fact the Finnish word "revontulet", a name for the aurora borealis or northern lights, can be translated as fire fox. So that evocative myth took on a special significance for the photographer of this northern night skyscape from Finnish Lapland near Kilpisjarvi Lake. The snowy scene is illuminated by moonlight. Saana, an iconic fell or mountain of Lapland, rises at the right in the background. But as the beautiful nothern lights danced overhead, the wild fire fox in the foreground enthusiastically ran around the photographer and his equipment, making it difficult to capture in this lucky single shot.

🔭 Northern Fox Fires

Image Credit & Copyright: Dennis Lehtonen

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25121...

12.12.2025 08:00 — 👍 280    🔁 87    💬 2    📌 3

Merci de m'avoir signalé cet article !

12.12.2025 07:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Un article qui va plaire à @bvaleur.bsky.social

2 anecdotes #louphoques 🐺🦭 :

- c'est actuellement le meilleur rendement connu pour la production de lumière

- l'enzyme et la molécule mises en jeu dans le processus doivent leur nom à Lucifer : "le porteur de lumière"

12.12.2025 06:44 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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Trois choses à savoir sur les coraux A l’heure où la communauté scientifique tire la sonnette d’alarme concernant la survie des coraux et le maintien des écosystèmes marins, Serge Plane, écologue

A l’heure où la communauté scientifique tire la sonnette d’alarme concernant la survie des coraux et le maintien des écosystèmes marins, Serge Plane, écologue 🌊 🪸

11.12.2025 08:46 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Sur Mars, le ciel ocre se colore de bleu lorsque les couchers de soleil.

04.12.2025 19:19 — 👍 25    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0
The matte flowers of A. majus (A) and C. bipinnatus (F) and the glossy flowers of Ranunculus repens (K) and Anthurium andraeanum (P) are analyzed. Cross sections show the cone-shaped (B and G) or flat (L and Q) epidermal cells.

The matte flowers of A. majus (A) and C. bipinnatus (F) and the glossy flowers of Ranunculus repens (K) and Anthurium andraeanum (P) are analyzed. Cross sections show the cone-shaped (B and G) or flat (L and Q) epidermal cells.

A new #ScienceAdvances study finds glossiness helps flowers attract bumblebees from a distance—but at a cost to color up close. https://scim.ag/4oe2JUv

28.11.2025 19:07 — 👍 43    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

Réponse de l'image-mystère :

Que se passe-t-il lorsque l’on injecte un laser multicolore dans un film de savon de quelques centaines de nanomètres d’épaisseur?
La lumière du laser se ramifie au contact du film et les différentes composantes colorées se séparent pour former un bouquet bariolé.

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27.11.2025 16:54 — 👍 67    🔁 7    💬 3    📌 1

UNE COURONNE LUNAIRE EXCEPTIONNELLE ⤵️
Ce phénomène est dû à la diffraction de la lumière par des gouttelettes d'eau présentes dans l'atmosphère. Les couleurs sont ici très contrastées parce que la taille des gouttelettes est homogène.

12.11.2025 17:07 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
The planet Jupiter appears full frame in apparent colours of a variety of blues and some pink bands. The Great Red Spot is visible on the lower left as a dark spot. Jupiter's Moon Ganymede is visible on the upper left. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

The planet Jupiter appears full frame in apparent colours of a variety of blues and some pink bands. The Great Red Spot is visible on the lower left as a dark spot. Jupiter's Moon Ganymede is visible on the upper left. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt

star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

11.11.2025 08:00 — 👍 479    🔁 164    💬 8    📌 31
What is big, bright, and beautiful, can wear a cape made of clouds, and is at the closest point in its elliptical orbit around planet Earth? A full moon at perigee of course, captured here near moonset in predawn skies on November 5 from Kayseri, Turkiye. Full moons that happen at (or very near) perigee, and so are slightly larger and brighter than full moons on average, have become popularly known as supermoons. In fact, this full moon at perigee is the closest and brightest of the three supermoons of 2025. Rising as the Sun sets, this full moon follows this October's Harvest Moon and is traditionally known to some as the Hunter's Moon.

What is big, bright, and beautiful, can wear a cape made of clouds, and is at the closest point in its elliptical orbit around planet Earth? A full moon at perigee of course, captured here near moonset in predawn skies on November 5 from Kayseri, Turkiye. Full moons that happen at (or very near) perigee, and so are slightly larger and brighter than full moons on average, have become popularly known as supermoons. In fact, this full moon at perigee is the closest and brightest of the three supermoons of 2025. Rising as the Sun sets, this full moon follows this October's Harvest Moon and is traditionally known to some as the Hunter's Moon.

🔭 A Full Moon at Perigee

Image Credit & Copyright: Betul Turksoy

star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...

08.11.2025 08:00 — 👍 237    🔁 52    💬 4    📌 5
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Pigments à la préhistoire : du neuf avec du bleu Deux études ont prouvé l’usage de pigments bleus végétaux et minéraux à la préhistoire. Jusqu’alors on croyait que seuls l’ocre, le rouge et le noir étaient utilisés par les humains du Paléolithique. ...

A 16h30 sur @franceculture.fr L'Entretien archéologique parle des couleurs de la préhistoire après les découvertes de traces rarissimes de pigments bleus datant de 33 000 et 13 000 ans environ. Hormis l'art, quels étaient les usages des pigments au paléolithique ?
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

07.11.2025 10:57 — 👍 33    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 1

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