Thursday 18 December 2014

Hubble Galactic Image on Every Day Products iPad Mini Cover

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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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A renaissance in metals

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A renaissance is underway in materials science, and especially in metals design, fabrication, and characterization, says MIT Materials

The post A renaissance in metals has been published on Technology Org.

 
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Great find, +Kurt Lercher - stunning shot

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Great find, +Kurt Lercher - stunning shot
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Saturn originally shared:

Rhea, with Saturn and rings in background, as seen by the Cassini spacecraft.

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Origin of long-standing space mystery revealed: Origin of the 'theta aurora'

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Scientists have solved a long-standing space mystery - the origin of the 'theta aurora'. Auroras are the most visible manifestation of the Sun's effect on Earth. They are seen as colorful displays in the night sky, known as the Northern or Southern Lights. They are caused by the solar wind, a stream of plasma - electrically charged atomic particles - carrying its own magnetic field, interacting with the earth's magnetic field. Normally, the main region for this impressive display is the 'auroral oval', which lies at around 65-70 degrees north or south of the equator, encircling the polar caps. However, auroras can occur at even higher latitudes. One type is known as a 'theta aurora' because seen from above it looks like the Greek letter theta - an oval with a line crossing through the center.

via Science Daily

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Kepler proves it can still find planets

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To paraphrase Mark Twain, the report of the Kepler spacecraft's death was greatly exaggerated. Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, Kepler is still alive and working. The evidence comes from the discovery of a new super-Earth using data collected during Kepler's 'second life.'

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Origin of high-latitude auroras revealed

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Auroras are the most visible manifestation of the Sun’s effect on Earth, but many aspects of these spectacular displays are still poorly understood. Thanks to ESA’s Cluster and NASA’s Image satellites working together, a particular type of very high-latitude aurora has now been explained.




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Out There: A Picture Captures Planets Waiting to Be Born

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Astronomers have obtained, in the image of the young star HL Tauri, what might be the best view yet of dust in the act of turning into planets.















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Vintage Astronomy Star Chart Planisphaeri Coeleste Posters

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A wonderful antique star chart depicting the constellations titled Planispaeri Coeleste This wonderful old constellation chart would be perfect for your home wall decor. Add a frame and it would make the perfect retro decoration in your bar, cafe, restaurant, home theater, office or kitchen. Framed canvas prints also make an exceptional gift for any occasion or holiday.

At The Vintage Vamp we obtain high quality images of vintage artwork. Then we use state of the art technology and editing to bring back to life the most compelling images from the past. Unlike a lot of reproductions sold on the Internet, ours have been refurbished to bring out the original colors and fix as many imperfections as possible. We use only PNG format and the largest PPI (pixels per inch) possible, which is the very best for printing. This assures that your image will print with the highest quality possible, no matter what size you choose. Credit: Library of Congress & Wikipedia




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Chandra weighs most massive galaxy cluster in distant universe

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(Phys.org) —Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have made the first determination of the mass and other properties of a very young, distant galaxy cluster.



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Evolution figured out chemical trick long before chemists did

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Chemists face a lot of challenges when synthesizing complex organic chemicals. Chief among them is the fact that many of their reactions are indiscriminate. If there are any alcohols (carbon-oxygen-hydrogen combinations) in a molecule whatsoever, the reaction will typically modify all of them rather than the specific one you're trying to change.

Chemists have come up with a variety of clever ways to avoid this problem, and one of the most commonly used is a protecting group. This is a chemical that attaches to part of your molecule and keeps it from reacting while the rest of the molecule is built up. When your synthesis is done, you simply pop the protecting group off, restoring part of the original molecule.

In general, biological systems don't need protecting groups. But a new paper suggests that they've evolved them anyway.

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Laser sniffs out toxic gases from afar

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Scientists have developed a way to sniff out tiny amounts of toxic gases — a whiff of nerve

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Trifid Nebula, Messier 16 Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A fantastic picture from our universe featuring the massive star factory known as the Trifid Nebula.

It was captured in all its glory with the Wide-Field Imager camera attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in northern Chile.
So named for the dark dust bands that trisect its glowing heart, the Trifid Nebula is a rare combination of three nebulae types that reveal the fury of freshly formed stars and point to more star birth in the future. The field of view of the image is approximately 13 x 17 arcminutes.
It's an awe-inspiring, breathtaking image that reveals some of the wonder that is our universe.

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NGC 7331 and Beyond

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Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 7331 is often touted as an analog to our own Milky Way. About 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Pegasus, NGC 7331 was recognized early on as a spiral nebula and is actually one of the brighter galaxies not included in Charles Messier's famous 18th century catalog. Since the galaxy's disk is inclined to our line-of-sight, long telescopic exposures often result in an image that evokes a strong sense of depth. The effect is further enhanced in this sharp image from a small telescope by galaxies that lie beyond the gorgeous island universe. The most prominent background galaxies are about one tenth the apparent size of NGC 7331 and so lie roughly ten times farther away. Their close alignment on the sky with NGC 7331 occurs just by chance. Seen through faint foreground dust clouds lingering above the plane of Milky Way, this visual grouping of galaxies is known as the Deer Lick Group.
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Flying over Becquerel

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This latest release from the camera on ESA’s Mars Express is a simulated flight over the Becquerel crater, showing large-scale deposits of sedimentary material.




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Omega Nebula Wall Graphics

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The Omega Nebula, also known as the Swan Nebula, Checkmark Nebula, Lobster Nebula, and the Horseshoe Nebula is an H II region in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745. Charles Messier catalogued it in 1764. It is located in the rich starfields of the Sagittarius area of the Milky Way. Photo by NASA.

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Hubble Space Telescope iPad Mini Cases

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My favorite NASA image on your iPad.

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Uniform Nanowire Arrays for Science and Manufacturing

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Defect-free nanowires with diameters in the range of 100 nanometers (nm) hold significant promise for numerous in-demand applications

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Satellite sees holiday lights brighten cities

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Even from space, holidays shine bright. With a new look at daily data scientists have identified how patterns in nighttime light intensity change during major holiday seasons -- Christmas and New Year's in the United States and the holy month of Ramadan in the Middle East.

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Surprising theorists, stars within middle-aged clusters are of similar age

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An examination of middle-aged star clusters reveals an unexpectedly narrow age range among their stars, suggesting that large groups of stars evolve differently than previously understood.

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ORION'S BELT PRINT

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Beautiful image of the famous Orion's belt.

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Tadpole Nebula, Auriga Constellation Star Stickers

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series An awesome outer space picture featuring the Tadpole Nebula, a star forming hub located about 12000 light years away in the Auriga constellation.
This nebula is brimming with new-born stars, many as young as only a million years of age. It's called the Tadpole nebula because the masses of hot, young stars are blasting out ultraviolet radiation that has etched the gas into two tadpole-shaped pillars, called Sim 129 and130, the yellow forms that seem to be swimming away from the three red stars close to the centre of the picture.

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Nebulosity 360 Wall Art Wall Sticker

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