Tuesday 17 December 2013

Aurora on Saturn iPad Mini Covers

Here's a great iPad case from Zazzle featuring a Hubble-related design. Maybe you'd like to see your name on it? Click to personalize and see what it's like!

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Experts to image event horizon of black hole

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Was Einstein right? A team of scientists will test the predictions of current theories of gravity, including Einstein's theory of General Relativity. The funding is provided in the form of a ‘Synergy Grant’, the largest and most competitive type of grant of the ERC.

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Name, The Rings of Gas Giant Saturn - solar system Gift Wrap Paper

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A stunning image of Saturn, taken when the planet's rings were at their maximum tilt of 27 degrees toward Earth. Saturn experiences seasonal tilts away from and toward the Sun, much the same way Earth does. This happens over the course of its 29.5-year orbit. This means that approximately every 30 years, Earth observers can catch their best glimpse of Saturn's South Pole and the southern side of the planet's rings. Between March and April 2003, researchers took full advantage to study the gas giant at maximum tilt. They used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to capture detailed images of Saturn's Southern Hemisphere and the southern face of its rings.
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Image credit: NASA (Hubble Telescope) and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona)

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The Landscape of Carina Print

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

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"NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this billowing cloud of cold interstellar gas and dust rising from a tempestuous stellar nursery located in the Carina Nebula, 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. This pillar of dust and gas serves as an incubator for new stars and is teeming with new star-forming activity.

"Hot, young stars erode and sculpt the clouds into this fantasy landscape by sending out thick stellar winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation. The low-density regions of the nebula are shredded while the denser parts resist erosion and remain as thick pillars. In the dark, cold interiors of these columns new stars continue to form."

(qtd. from HubbleSite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2010-13)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

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Fungal pathogen shows profound effects from spaceflight

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In a new study, the first global gene expression profiling and phenotypic characterization of a fungal pathogen during spaceflight is revealed.

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Hubble watches super star create holiday light show

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This festive NASA Hubble Space Telescope image resembles a holiday wreath made of sparkling lights. The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled in a gossamer cocoon of reflective dust illuminated by the glittering star. Hubble took a series of photos of light flashes rippling across the nebula in a phenomenon known as a "light echo."

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Gaia launch live

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Watch ESA's billion-star surveyor Gaia launch into space on 19 December at 09:12:19 GMT

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Hubble Watches Super Star Create Holiday Light Show



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This festive NASA Hubble Space Telescope image resembles a holiday wreath made of sparkling lights. The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled in a gossamer cocoon of reflective dust illuminated by the glittering star. RS Puppis rhythmically brightens and dims over a six-week cycle. It is one of the most luminous in the class of so-called Cepheid variable stars. The nebula flickers in brightness as pulses of light from the Cepheid propagate outwards. Hubble took a series of photos of light flashes rippling across the nebula in a phenomenon known as a "light echo."




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Massive stars mark out Milky Way's 'missing arms'

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A 12-year study of massive stars has reaffirmed that our Galaxy has four spiral arms, following years of debate sparked by images taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope that only showed two arms.

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Name, Deep Space Hubble Astronomy Pictures Gift Wrap

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Gift wrap paper - with the name of the person whose gift it is. Using four astronomy images from deep space, this is the perfect wrapping paper for an out of this world gift!
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Massive stars mark out Milky Way's 'missing' arms

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A 12-year study of massive stars has reaffirmed that our Galaxy has four spiral arms, following years of debate sparked by images taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope that only showed two arms.



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Pink Overlay Galaxy Cluster Gift Wrapping Paper

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Cosmic wedding wrapping paper featuring a NASA Hubble space images of Pandora's Cluster. The astronomy picture beneath the pink overlay features lovely shades of magenta pink to bright blue with purple in between. You can remove the overlay if you'd like.

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Merging Galaxies - The Antennae Galaxies Square Stickers

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


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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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Name, Intriguing Outer Space Phenomena Pictures Gift Wrapping Paper

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Giftwrap with person's name. This gift wrap uses four amazing images from deep in outer space - perfect wrapping paper for any out of this world gift!
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Innovative instrument probes close binary stars, may soon image exoplanets

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Close binary stars cannot be resolved with today's optical telescopes, despite adaptive optics that removes the fuzziness caused by atmospheric turbulence. An international team of astronomers has built and mounted on a 3-meter California telescope a fibered optic imager that combines AO and interferometry to resolve for the first time close binaries such as Capella, and have mounted an improved imager on an 8-meter Subaru telescope that may one day resolve planets around dwarf stars.

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Graphene nanoribbons an ice-melting coat for radar

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A composite of graphene nanoribbons and polyurethane paint is a robust, light, cost-effective coating to keep radar domes free of ice.

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SOFs take to water: First soluble 2-D supramolecular organic frameworks created

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Researchers have unveiled the first two-dimensional SOFs -- supramolecular organic frameworks -- that self-assemble in solution, an important breakthrough that holds implications for sensing and separation technologies, energy sciences, and biomimetics.

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Carina Nebula Room Graphics

Here's a great wall decal featuring a beautiful image from deep space

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The Carina Nebula is a large bright nebula that surrounds several open clusters of stars.

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