Wednesday 22 January 2014

Monogram Orion Nebula and Trapezium Stars Ceiling Lamps

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous picture from the deep universe featuring the bubbling, seething mass of gas and dust that is the Orion Nebula, 1500 light years away and the closest star-forming region to us. The nebula is a star nursery in which there are birthing, new-born, young and adult stars. Look carefully in the brightest central region and you'll see the Trapezium, four of the most massive stars in Orion.
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Gaia launch postponement update

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Yesterday, the decision was taken to postpone the launch of ESA’s Gaia mission after a technical issue was identified in another satellite already in orbit.




via ESA Space Science

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_launch_postponement_update

Last command sent to ESA’s Planck space telescope

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ESA’s Planck space telescope has been turned off after nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of stars and galaxies throughout the Universe’s history.




via ESA Space Science

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Planck/Last_command_sent_to_ESA_s_Planck_space_telescope

Gaia: launch postponed

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Due to recently discovered technical issues with a separate satellite, ESA has decided to perform additional precautionary verifications on its Gaia satellite. Therefore we have requested that Arianespace postpone the Gaia launch, currently scheduled for 20 November.


More details will be given as soon as they are available and the new launch date will be announced when the timeline for completing the additional work has been confirmed.




via ESA Space Science

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_launch_postponed

Countdown to launch of ESA’s billion-star surveyor

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ESA’s billion-star surveyor Gaia will be launched from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou on 20 November to begin a five-year mission to map the stars with unprecedented precision.




via ESA Space Science

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia/Countdown_to_launch_of_ESA_s_billion-star_surveyor

Herschel discovers water vapour around dwarf planet Ceres

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ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered water vapour around Ceres, the first unambiguous detection of water vapour around an object in the asteroid belt.




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http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_discovers_water_vapour_around_dwarf_planet_Ceres

Beautiful Heart of The Milky Way Galaxy Poster

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

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A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA on Nov. 10. This event will commemorate the 400 years since Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609. In celebration of this International Year of Astronomy, NASA is releasing images of the galactic center region as seen by its Great Observatories to more than 150 planetariums, museums, nature centers, libraries, and schools across the country. The sites will unveil a giant, 6-foot-by-3-foot print of the bustling hub of our galaxy that combines a near-infrared view from the Hubble Space Telescope, an infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and an X-ray view from the Chandra X-ray Observatory into one multiwavelength picture. Experts from all three observatories carefully assembled the final image from large mosaic photo surveys taken by each telescope. This composite image provides one of the most detailed views ever of our galaxy's mysterious core. Participating institutions also will display a matched trio of Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra images of the Milky Way's center on a second large panel measuring 3 feet by 4 feet. Each image shows the telescope's different wavelength view of the galactic center region, illustrating not only the unique science each observatory conducts, but also how far astronomy has come since Galileo. The composite image features the spectacle of stellar evolution: from vibrant regions of star birth, to young hot stars, to old cool stars, to seething remnants of stellar death called black holes. This activity occurs against a fiery backdrop in the crowded, hostile environment of the galaxy's core, the center of which is dominated by a supermassive black hole nearly four million times more massive than our Sun. Permeating the region is a diffuse blue haze of X-ray light from gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by outflows from the supermassive black hole as well as by winds from massive stars and by stellar explosions. Infrared light reveals more than a hundred thousand stars along with glowing dust clouds that create complex structures including compact globules, long filaments, and finger-like "pillars of creation," where newborn stars are just beginning to break out of their dark, dusty cocoons.Courtesy: NASA.

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The Rose Galaxies, Arp 273 Square Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series An amazing outer space picture featuring two interacting galaxies that together form the shape of a rose. The larger of the spiral galaxies, UGC 1810, has a disk that is twisted by the gravitational pull of its companion galaxy, UGC 1813.
Knots of young, hot blue stars bejewel the spirals arms in glistening starlight while below, its smaller, nearly edge-on companion is going through intense star formation at its centre, perhaps triggered by their encounter.

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Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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Engineers create light-activated 'curtains'

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Forget remote-controlled curtains. A new development could lead to curtains and other materials that move in response to light, no batteries needed.

via Science Daily

North American and Pelican Nebulae Square Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous picture from outer space featuring the North American and Pelican emission nebulae in the constellation of Cygnus, The Swan. The red, green and yellow areas all highlight the cloud of interstellar ionised hydrogen.
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Graphenea increases production yield and reduces prices

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At the beginning of 2014, Graphenea has reduced prices of various forms of graphene by an average of 27% compared to last year's prices. The reasons for this most recent reduction are increased production efficiency, an improvement in process yield, and the acquisition of new lab equipment.


For example, a four-pack of graphene monolayers on 10mm x 10mm Si/SiO2 substrate now costs only 175 EUR (229 USD). If you provide your own substrate, our experts will use their specialty graphene transfer process to cover your substrate at a cost of only 135 EUR (179 USD). Larger wafers, up to 4", are also available. Graphene oxide now costs only 89 EUR (119 USD) for 250mL (water dispersion, 4mg/mL). For a full list of updated prices, refer to our graphene product listing.


Monolayer Graphene on SiO2/Si


Graphenea is committed to providing high quality graphene at competitive prices. In addition, we focus on high batch-to-batch reproducibility, because we know that dependability and integrity are what keeps our customers coming back for more. In line with this focus, this year Graphenea is investing in improved quality control equipment and processes.


Graphenea is one of the key players in the graphene industry, creating value to both the research community and the emerging industry by offering outstanding materials at very competitive prices. We are able to offer high volume contracts to meet specific customer or application needs. Potential customers are invited to contact us by email with any special requests.


We expect that the price of graphene will continuously decrease year by year, according to market volume increases (for a more detailed overview of historic and predicted prices of graphene, see our article "Price of graphene"). Graphenea wishes everyone a happy and productive 2014!




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Orion Nebula and Trapezium Stars Room Graphics

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

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous picture from the deep universe featuring the bubbling, seething mass of gas and dust that is the Orion Nebula, 1500 light years away and the closest star-forming region to us. The nebula is a star nursery in which there are birthing, new-born, young and adult stars. Look carefully in the brightest central region and you'll see the Trapezium, four of the most massive stars in Orion.

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Sneak preview of Survey Telescope treasure trove

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The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured this richly detailed new image of the Lagoon Nebula. This giant cloud of gas and dust is creating intensely bright young stars, and is home to young stellar clusters. This image is a tiny part of just one of eleven public surveys of the sky now in progress using ESO telescopes. Together these are providing a vast legacy of publicly available data for the global astronomical community.



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Monogram Orion Nebula and Trapezium Stars Table Lamps

Here's a gorgeous lamp featuring a beautiful image from deep in outer space.


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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous picture from the deep universe featuring the bubbling, seething mass of gas and dust that is the Orion Nebula, 1500 light years away and the closest star-forming region to us. The nebula is a star nursery in which there are birthing, new-born, young and adult stars. Look carefully in the brightest central region and you'll see the Trapezium, four of the most massive stars in Orion.
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Hubble Space Telescope 18x24 (18x24) Poster

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Recommended size to fit a standard frame: 18x24 inches (original size: 18x24 inches at 300 PPI, 39 MP). Many other sizes available. Click 'Customize it!' on the right.

Named after the trailblazing astronomer Edwin P. Hubble (1889-1953), the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a large, space-based observatory which has revolutionized astronomy by providing unprecedented deep and clear views of the Universe, ranging from our own solar system to extremely remote fledgling galaxies forming not long after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

Mission Accomplished: Leaving Hubble Better Than Ever (05.29.2009)Take one space shuttle, seven highly trained astronauts, tons of equipment, and one legendary orbiting telescope and you have the 5.3 million-mile odyssey that was Hubble's final servicing mission (SM4). Launched in 1990 and greatly extended in its scientific powers through new instrumentation installed during four servicing missions with the Space Shuttle, the Hubble, in its eighteen years of operations, has validated Lyman Spitzer Jr.'s (1914-1997) original concept of a diversely instrumented observatory orbiting far above the distorting effects of the Earth's atmosphere and returning data of unique scientific value.

Hubble's coverage of light of different colors (its "spectral range") extends from the ultraviolet, through the visible (to which our eyes are sensitive), and into the near-infrared. Hubble's primary mirror is 2.4 meters (94.5 inches) in diameter. Hubble is not large by ground-based standards but it performs heroically in space. Hubble orbits Earth every 96 minutes, 575 kilometers (360 miles) above the Earth's surface.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD performs the daily orbital operations, servicing mission development, and overall management of the Hubble Program. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, MD develops and executes Hubble's scientific program and is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under contract to NASA.

Credit: NASA, ESA



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Orion Nebula and Trapezium Stars Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous picture from the deep universe featuring the bubbling, seething mass of gas and dust that is the Orion Nebula, 1500 light years away and the closest star-forming region to us. The nebula is a star nursery in which there are birthing, new-born, young and adult stars. Look carefully in the brightest central region and you'll see the Trapezium, four of the most massive stars in Orion.

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Large Magellanic Cloud Superbubble in Nebula N44 Wall Decal

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series An awesome photograph from deep space featuring a super bubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is a small satellite of our Milky Way galaxy around 160000 light years from us.
The massive stars of this nebula produce intense radiation, expelling matter at high speeds, and race through their main stage finally to explode as supernovas. The stellar winds of charged hydrogen and other particles and the supernova shock waves carve out huge cavities called superbubbles in the surrounding gas. Blue shows hot regions created by these winds and shocks, while red shows where the dust and cooler gas are found. Yellow regions show where ultraviolet radiation from hot, young stars is causing gas in the nebula to glow.

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Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m

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