Monday 15 December 2014

Hubble IPad Cover

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Researchers find a way to improve FELs approach used to study Photosystem II in plants

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A team of researchers in Japan has developed a technique for improving the free electron lasers (FELs) approach

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Horse head Nebula Poster

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The Horsehead Nebula is approximately 1500 light years from Earth. It is one of the most identifiable nebulae because of the shape of its swirling cloud of dark dust and gases, which is similar to that of a horse's head when viewed from Earth.

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USB-sized DNA sequencer is error-prone, but still useful

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Nearly three years ago, a company called Oxford Nanopore made waves when it announced the development of DNA sequencing technology that was simple and compact enough to fit on a USB stick. The intervening years have been filled with product delays and apparent problems with read accuracy. This morning, however, a paper is being released that relies on the technology, and while the technology still has problems, it can help provide some medically relevant information.

Most methods of studying DNA perform what's called "sequencing by synthesis." They make a new copy of the DNA strand being sequenced, keeping track of which base is added to each location. This is highly effective, but it requires the use of consumables: each base added has to be supplied to the reaction, as does the enzyme that does the adding. All of this adds to the cost of the sequencing reaction, and it places a limit on how cheap we can make the process of sequencing a genome.

Oxford Nanopore's method is fundamentally different. Instead of adding new bases, the DNA strand to be sequenced is stuffed through a protein with a hole in the middle. As each base passes through this pore, its electrical properties are read, allowing the hardware to determine which base is going by. Although the pore will have a finite lifetime, the process doesn't need any specialized chemicals or enzymes and therefore has the potential to be very cheap.

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Particles, waves and ants

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Animals looking for food or light waves moving through turbid media – astonishing similarities have now been found

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The Potsdam Gravity Potato

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Monogram - Enlarged Region of The Omega Nebula Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Like the fury of a raging sea, this bubbly ocean of glowing hydrogen, oxygen, and sulphur gas lies in the extremely massive and luminous molecular nebula Messier 17.
This Hubble photograph captures a small region within Messier 17 (M17), a hotbed of star formation. M17, also known as the Omega or Swan Nebula, is located about 5500 light-years away in the Sagittarius constellation.
Ultraviolet radiation is carving and heating the surfaces of cold hydrogen gas clouds and the warmed surfaces glow orange and red. The intense heat and pressure causes some material to stream away from the surface, creating the glowing veil of even hotter green-coloured gas that masks background structures. The colours in the image represent various gases. Red represents sulphur; green, hydrogen; and blue, oxygen.

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Image credit: NASA, the ACS Science Team

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Space Science Image of the Week: Planck paints the magnetic field along the plane of the Milky Way

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Orion Nebula by the Hubble Telescope Cover For The iPad Mini

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In one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula. ... This extensive study took 105 Hubble orbits to complete. All imaging instruments aboard the telescope were used simultaneously to study Orion. The Advanced Camera mosaic covers approximately the apparent angular size of the full moon. Sign up to Mr. Rebates for FREE and save 12% on any zazzle order in addition to a $5.00 sign up bonus All Rights Reserved; without: prejudice, recourse or notice (U.C.C. 1-308) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orion_Nebula_-_Hubble_2006_mosaic_18000.jpg

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Researchers develop multilevel memory for consumer electronics

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Researchers at AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland funded materials science centre, and the School of Chemistry, Trinity College

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NASAs SN1994D Nebula Print

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Supernova discoveries are reported to the International Astronomical Union's Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, which sends out a circular with the name it assigns to it. The name is the year of discovery, immediately followed by a one or two-letter designation. The first 26 supernovae of the year are designated with a capital letter from A to Z. Afterward pairs of lower-case letters are used: aa, ab, and so on.[36] Since 2000, professional and amateur astronomers find several hundreds of supernovae each year (572 in 2007, 261 in 2008, 390 in 2009). For example, the last supernova of 2005 was SN 2005nc, indicating that it was the 367th[nb 1] supernova found in 2005.[37][38] Historical supernovae are known simply by the year they occurred: SN 185, SN 1006, SN 1054, SN 1572 (Tycho's Nova) and SN 1604 (Kepler's Star). Since 1885 the letter notation has been used, even if there was only one supernova discovered that year (e.g. SN 1885A, 1907A, etc.)—this last happened with SN 1947A. "SN", for SuperNova, is a standard prefix. Until 1987, two-letter designations were rarely needed; since 1988, however, they have been needed every year.

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Crab Pulsar Time Lapse - Neutron Star Stickers

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Multiple observations made over several months with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope captured the spectacle of matter and antimatter propelled to near the speed of light by the Crab pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star the size of Manhattan.

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Image credit: NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope

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Star birth in Carina Nebula from Hubble's WFC3 det Wall Skins

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ImageID: 42-23286264 / STScI / NASA/Corbis / Star birth in Carina Nebula from Hubble's WFC3 detector

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