Wednesday 5 November 2014

Hubble Sees a Cosmic Caterpillar Cover For iPad

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Soviet-Era Engine Is Blamed for Antares Rocket Explosion

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The Orbital Sciences Corporation said that a preliminary analysis pointed to a failure of a turbopump for the Oct. 28 fireball in Virginia.















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Hybrid materials could smash the solar efficiency ceiling

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A new method for transferring energy from organic to inorganic semiconductors could boost the efficiency of widely used

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Must see, comet landing by Rosetta 12th Nov 2014

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Must see, comet landing by Rosetta 12th Nov 2014
Let's keep everything crossed for a great outcome. This vid summarises the project and challenges, right up to date!
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"Landing on a Comet" - After a 10-year journey of billions of miles, the Rosetta mission is now heading towards its next major milestone – setting the lander Philae on a comet Nov. 12. This short film is from the German Aerospace Center (DLR). 
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Out There: Bound for Pluto, Carrying Memories of Triton

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When the New Horizons probe passes the former planet next year, it may look familiar: Neptune’s moon Triton, scrutinized 25 years ago by Voyager 2, is probably a long-lost brother of Pluto.















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The north pole moved to the North Pole in a single human lifetime

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Geology rewards an active imagination. It gives us a lot of tantalizing clues about very different times and places in Earth’s history, leaving us to try to answer “Man, what would that be like?” One of the things that's tough to imagine involves changing something that most of us never give a second thought—the fact that compasses point north. That’s plainly true today, but it hasn’t always been.

What we call the “north” magnetic pole—the object of your compass’ affection—doesn’t need to be located in the Arctic (it noticeably wanders there, by the way). It feels equally at home in the Antarctic. The geologic record tells us that the north and south magnetic poles frequently trade places. In fact, the signal of this magnetic flip-flopping recorded in the seafloor was the final key to the discovery of plate tectonics, as it let us see how ocean crust forms and moves over time.

That the poles flip is interesting in itself, but “Man, what would that be like?” Does the magnetic pole slowly walk along the curve of the Earth over thousands of years, meaning your compass might have pointed to some part of the equator for long stretches of time? Do the poles weaken to nothing, disappearing for a while before re-emerging in the new configuration? Do they somehow flip in the blink of an eye? Given the number of species that use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate—especially for seasonal migrations—this is more than an academic curiosity.

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Simultaneous Imaging of Ferromagnetic and Ferroelectric Domains

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An international team led by researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have discovered a

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VIDEO: Lab for world’s worst animal viruses

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A look around a new lab at Pirbright Institute in Surrey, where the world’s most contagious livestock viruses will be kept. 
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Sculpted Region of the Orion Nebula Stickers

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A region within the Orion Nebula showing the sculpting effect that stars can have on any surrounding gas clouds. This glowing region reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected by the nearby Trapezium stars - collide with material.

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Image credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

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NGC 4762: A Galaxy on the Edge

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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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Crab Nebula Wall Decals

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This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054, as did, almost certainly, Native Americans.

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Enhanced Hubble Image of Comet iPad Folio Cases

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DNA nano-foundries cast custom-shaped 3-D metal nanoparticles

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Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have unveiled a new method to

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Electrically conductive plastics promising for batteries, solar cells

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An emerging class of electrically conductive plastics called “radical polymers” may bring low-cost, transparent solar cells, flexible and

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Once upon a time...

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Rosetta and Philae get ready for their comet landing adventure

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http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2014/11/Once_upon_a_time_preparing_for_comet_landing

Really cool, gives you a much better feel for such space artefacts.

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Really cool, gives you a much better feel for such space artefacts.
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Aftab khAn originally shared:

An animated 3D-study of Melotte 15

The open cluster centered in this image is known as Melotte 15 . Melotte 15 is embedded within a central portion of the much larger glowing nebula identified as IC 1805. 
The interesting structure in the center of the image is a giant area of hydrogen gas that is caused to glow by the intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive stars of the Melotte 15 star cluster.
Dust and gas clouds are twisted by the pressure of the intense radiation, the solar wind.
This formation is estimated to be 7,500 light years away from Earth.

Credits
J-P Metsavainio

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http://www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2013/01/melotte-15-as-experimental-3d-study.html

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Pale Blue Dot Clean Posters

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The pixelation from the hubble scope are cleaned up in this one to look a little more wall art friendly.

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Name, Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672 Wrapping Paper

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 unveils details in the galaxy's star-forming clouds and dark bands of interstellar dust.
One of the most striking features is the dust lanes that extend away from the nucleus and follow the inner edges of the galaxy's spiral arms. Clusters of hot young blue stars form along the spiral arms and ionize surrounding clouds of hydrogen gas that glow red. Delicate curtains of dust partially obscure and redden the light of the stars behind them by scattering blue light.
Galaxies lying behind NGC 1672 give the illusion they are embedded in the foreground galaxy, even though they are really much farther away. They also appear reddened as they shine through NGC 1672's dust. A few bright foreground stars inside our own Milky Way Galaxy appear in the image as bright and diamond-like objects.
As a prototypical barred spiral galaxy, NGC 1672 differs from normal spiral galaxies, in that the arms do not twist all the way into the center. Instead, they are attached to the two ends of a straight bar of stars enclosing the nucleus. Viewed nearly face on, NGC 1672 shows intense star formation regions especially off in the ends of its central bar.
Astronomers believe that barred spirals have a unique mechanism that channels gas from the disk inward towards the nucleus. This allows the bar portion of the galaxy to serve as an area of new star generation.
NGC 1672 is also classified as a Seyfert galaxy. Seyferts are a subset of galaxies with active nuclei. The energy output of these nuclei can sometimes outshine their host galaxies. This activity is powered by accretion onto supermassive black holes.
NGC 1672 is more than 60 million light-years away in the direction of the southern constellation Dorado. These observations of NGC 1672 were taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys in August of 2005. The composite image was made by using filters that isolate light from the blue, green, and infrared portions of the spectrum, as well as emission from ionized hydrogen.
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Sculpted Region of the Orion Nebula Rectangular Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A region within the Orion Nebula showing the sculpting effect that stars can have on any surrounding gas clouds. This glowing region reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected by the nearby Trapezium stars - collide with material.

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Lorenzo Albacete, Theologian and Scientist, Dies at 73

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Msgr. Albacete, a former aerospace researcher turned Roman Catholic priest, became one of the Vatican’s most articulate, unofficial defenders in the United States.















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Carina Nebula around the Wolf Rayet star WR 22 Room Sticker

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Carina Nebula around the Wolf Rayet star WR 22 You can personalize the design further if you'd prefer, such as by adding your name or other text, or adjusting the image - just click 'Customize' to see all the options.

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