Monday 17 November 2014

Hubble Galactic Image on Every Day Products iPad Mini Cover

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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Beautiful and awe-inspiring Galactic image from the Hubble space telescope reprinted onto a wide range of products.

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Graphene/nanotube hybrid benefits flexible solar cells

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Scientists have created a graphene/nanotube cathode that may make cheap, flexible dye-sensitized solar cells more practical.

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Revolutionary solar-friendly form of silicon shines

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Silicon is the second most-abundant element in the earth's crust. When purified, it takes on a diamond structure, which is essential to modern electronic devices -- carbon is to biology as silicon is to technology. Scientists have synthesized an entirely new form of silicon, one that promises even greater future applications.

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Books: 'Zoom,' by Bob Berman, Explains How Things Move

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A book in which complex kinetic concepts are made simple, and simply spectacular,















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Observatory: Seeing Jupiter’s Red in the Lab

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a result of chemicals being broken down by sunlight, researchers report.















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Research reveals the real cause of death for some starburst galaxies

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Like hedonistic rock stars that live by the "better to burn out than to fade away" credo, certain galaxies flame out in a blaze of glory. Astronomers have struggled to grasp why these young "starburst" galaxies—ones that are very rapidly forming new stars from cold molecular hydrogen gas up to 100 times faster than our own Milky Way—would shut down their prodigious star formation to join a category scientists call "red and dead."



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Turning waste from whisky-making into fuel — close to commercial reality?

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A start-up company in Scotland is working to capitalize on the tons of waste produced by one of

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Mosquitos evolved to specialize on human prey

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Although it often doesn't seem like it on a warm summer night, insects that feed on human blood are a rarity. There may be as many as 10 million species of insects; only about 100 of them specialize on humans. But rare doesn't mean unimportant. A single species of mosquito, Aedes aegypti, can spread yellow and dengue fevers, making it a major player in public health.

Aedes aegypti is also unusual in that, while it specializes in humans, we've found a population of what researchers have termed "forest" mosquitos that prefer to go after other animals. Now, researchers have used the forest mosquitos to help us understand how their peers have ended up specialized in feeding on humans. The answer, in part, is that the mosquitos have evolved a receptor that makes us smell good.

The key for this new paper was a forest mosquito population in Kenya, last observed in the 1970s. The research involved in the new work returned to the site in 2009, and the team found that mosquitos with two different color patterns still existed in the region. Returning to the lab with them, they found that the forest mosquitos tended to prefer the scent of guinea pigs, while mosquitos isolated in or near houses preferred human smells.

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Researchers synthesize ferromagnetic superconducting compound amenable to chemical modification

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LMU chemists have synthesized a ferromagnetic superconducting compound that is amenable to chemical modification, opening the route to

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Wikipedia 'foresees virus outbreaks'

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US scientists say tracking Wikipedia page views could help predict the next big global disease outbreak. 
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The Double Dust Disks of HD 95086

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Red Supergiant Star V838 Monocerotis Star 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 gorgeous astronomy picture featuring a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis, in the direction of the constellation of Monoceros on the outer edge of our Milky Way. The image shows the swirls of dust spiralling across trillions of miles of interstellar space, lit mainly from within by a pulse of light from the red supergiant, two years into its journey.

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

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Space Science Image of the Week: BepiColombo orbiter ready to feel the heat

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Nebulosity 360 Wall Art Wall Sticker

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


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Make your room a space mans room

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Hubble Space Telescope iPad Mini Cases

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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My favorite NASA image on your iPad.

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An effective, cost-saving way to detect natural gas pipeline leaks

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Major leaks from oil and gas pipelines have led to home evacuations, explosions, millions of dollars in lawsuit

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Do Work Sun! Poster

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A play off of "Do Work Son"

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Carina Nebula - Breathtaking Universe Star Sticker

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


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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous set of oval stickers showing the area surrounding the stellar cluster NGC 2467, located in the southern constellation of Puppis ("The Stern"). With an age of a few million years at most, it is a very active stellar nursery, where new stars are born continuously from large clouds of dust and gas.

The image, looking like a colourful cosmic ghost or a gigantic celestial Mandrill, contains the open clusters Haffner 18 (centre) and Haffner 19 (middle right: it is located inside the smaller pink region - the lower eye of the Mandrill), as well as vast areas of ionised gas.

The bright star at the centre of the largest pink region on the bottom of the image is HD 64315, a massive young star that is helping shaping the structure of the whole nebular region.

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Witch Head Nebula deep space astronomy image Room Decal

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A witch appears to be screaming out into space in this image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The infrared portrait shows the Witch Head nebula, named after its resemblance to the profile of a wicked witch. Astronomers say the billowy clouds of the nebula, where baby stars are brewing, are being lit up by massive stars. Dust in the cloud is being hit with starlight, causing it to glow with infrared light, which was picked up by WISE's detectors.
The Witch Head nebula is estimated to be hundreds of light-years away in the Orion constellation, just off the famous hunter's knee.
WISE was recently "awakened" to hunt for asteroids in a program called NEOWISE. The reactivation came after the spacecraft was put into hibernation in 2011, when it completed two full scans of the sky, as planned.
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