Saturday 7 September 2013

Advancing graphene for post-silicon computer logic

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Scientists have solved a problem that previously presented a serious hurdle for the use of graphene in electronic devices.

via Science Daily

Space case iPhone 5 cases

Here's a great product from Zazzle featuring an astronomy case. Maybe you'd like to see your name on it? Click to personalize and see what it's like!

I love browsing around and bumping into cool stuff. Check this out, created by 12thDimension,
another talented artist from the Zazzle community!


This is the eagle nebula. It is probably my favorite nebula hope some of you will enjoy having outer space inside your pocket.

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A Starburst Galaxy - Messier 82 (Cigar Galaxy) Stickers

Here's a great sheet of stickers featuring a beautiful image from deep space


Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series This mosaic image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (aka Cigar Galaxy) is a really sharp wide-angle view of M82. It is a galaxy remarkable for its webs of shredded clouds and flame-like plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out from its central regions where young stars are being born 10 times faster than they are inside in our Milky Way Galaxy.

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Image credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI) and P. Puxley (NSF).
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Pale Blue Dot Clean Posters

Here's a great poster featuring a beautiful image from deep space


The pixelation from the hubble scope are cleaned up in this one to look a little more wall art friendly.
Click to customize with size, paper type etc.
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NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) launches, heads for the moon

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NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is on its way to the moon after launching Friday from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Team members are analyzing a situation with LADEE's reaction wheels, but say the spacecraft is communicating and working as designed, with plenty of time to resolve the issue before reaching lunar orbit.

via Science Daily

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Watching Europa iPhone 4 #2 iPhone 4 Covers

Here's a great product from Zazzle featuring an astronomy case. Maybe you'd like to see your name on it? Click to personalize and see what it's like!

today I've chosen for you this popular design from Zazzle. It was created by watchingeuropa,
another talented artist from the Zazzle community!


Another Watching Europa phone case

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Inflatable antennae could give CubeSats greater reach: Design inflates with powder that turns into gas

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Researchers have come up with a design that may significantly increase the communication range of small satellites, enabling them to travel much farther in the solar system.

via Science Daily

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Eagle Nebula Pillars of Creation universe backdrop Samsung Galaxy SIII Case


Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A breathtaking mobile phone shell with a stylized Rising Phoenix and showing a spectacular three-colour composite mosaic image of the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16, or NGC 6611). It's based on images obtained with the Wide-Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory.

At the centre, the so-called “Pillars of Creation” can be seen and this wide-field image shows not only the central pillars, but also several others in the same star-forming region, as well as a huge number of stars in front of, in, or behind the Eagle Nebula.

The cluster of bright stars to the upper right is NGC 6611, home to the massive and hot stars that illuminate the pillars. The “Spire” - another large pillar - is in the middle left of the image.

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Stellar Nurseries RCW120 Post Card


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A fantastic postcard featuring a colour composite image of RCW120.

It reveals how an expanding bubble of ionised gas about ten light-years across is causing the surrounding material to collapse into dense clumps where new stars are then formed.

The 870-micron submillimetre-wavelength data were taken with the LABOCA camera on the 12-m Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope. Here, the submillimetre emission is shown as the blue clouds surrounding the reddish glow of the ionised gas (shown with data from the SuperCosmos H-alpha survey). The image also contains data from the Second Generation Digitized Sky Survey (I-band shown in blue, R-band shown in red).

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Merging Galaxies - The Antennae Galaxies Postcards


Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A stunning outer space picture featuring two merging galaxies, known as the Antennae Galaxies - NGC4038 and NGC4039. As these galaxies hurtle through each other, billions of new stars are forced to precipitate out of the gas and dust clouds by the bunching and heating that's caused by the massive gravitic interactions. These tend to occur in clusters, the brightest and most condensed of them being known as super star clusters.

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Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgement: B. Whitmore ( Space Telescope Science Institute) and James Long (ESA/Hubble).
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