Monday 26 January 2015

Crab Nebula – Hubble Telescope Case For The iPad Mini

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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Hubble photograph of the Crab Nebula

This is a composite photograph produced from 24 individual images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, and is the most detailed image of the Crab Nebula that has been produced to date.
Credit: NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University). Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble)

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My Very Educated Readers Just Served Us Some New Planet Mnemonics

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We asked our readers to submit their own mnemonics, including the dwarf planets. Here are some of our favorites:















via New York Times

‘Batman’ leads way to superfast and precise data storage

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With a surprising discovery, an international team of scientists from Radboud University, Switzerland and Japan demonstrates the feasibility

The post ‘Batman’ leads way to superfast and precise data storage has been published on Technology Org.

 
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Visualizing interacting electrons in a molecule

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Scientists have succeeded in directly imaging how electrons interact within a single molecule. Understanding this kind of electronic effects in organic molecules is crucial for their use in optoelectronic applications, for example in organic light-emitting diodes, organic field-effect transistors and solar cells.

via Science Daily

Gigantic ring system around J1407b much larger, heavier than Saturn's

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Astronomers have discovered that the ring system that they see eclipse the very young Sun-like star J1407 is of enormous proportions, much larger and heavier than the ring system of Saturn.

via Science Daily

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Swarm of microprobes to head for Jupiter

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A swarm of tiny probes each with a different sensor could be fired into the clouds of Jupiter and grab data as they fall before burning up in the gas giant planet's atmosphere. The probes would last an estimated 15 minutes according to planetary scientists. Transmitting 20 megabits of data over 15 minutes would be sufficient to allows scientists to get a picture of a large part of the atmosphere of the planet.

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Researchers make magnetic graphene

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Graphene has many desirable properties. Magnetism alas is not one of them. Magnetism can be induced in graphene by doping it with magnetic impurities, but this tends to disrupt graphene's electronic properties. Now physicists have found a way to induce magnetism in graphene while also preserving graphene's electronic properties. They have accomplished this by bringing a graphene sheet very close to a magnetic insulator -- an electrical insulator with magnetic properties.

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Hilltop panorama marks Mars rover's 11th anniversary

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A panorama from one of the highest elevations that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached in its 11 years on Mars includes the U.S. flag at the summit.

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Helicopter could be 'scout' for Mars rovers

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Getting around on Mars is tricky business. Each NASA rover has delivered a wealth of information about the history and composition of the Red Planet, but a rover's vision is limited by the view of onboard cameras, and images from spacecraft orbiting Mars are the only other clues to where to drive it. To have a better sense of where to go and what's worth studying on Mars, it could be useful to have a low-flying scout.

via Science Daily

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Vintage Astronomy Celestial Renaissance Moon Stars Poster

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


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Vintage illustration astronomy and celestial black and white Renaissance drawing of a landscape and the moon (lune) in the night sky with stars and constellations. People are standing next to a river, bridge and buildings. Created in 1683 by Allain Manesson Mallet (1630 – 1706), a French cartographer and engineer.

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Rosetta watches comet shed its dusty coat

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ESA’s Rosetta mission is providing unique insight into the life cycle of a comet’s dusty surface, watching 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko as it sheds the dusty coat it has accumulated over the past four years.




via ESA Space Science

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_watches_comet_shed_its_dusty_coat

Millions Paid by X Prize Foundation for Progress Toward Trip to Moon

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The X Prize Foundation paid more than $5 million to several groups for advances in landing, moving on the lunar surface and imaging.















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Visualizing interacting electrons in a molecule

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Scientists at Aalto University and the University of Zurich have succeeded in directly imaging how electrons interact within a single molecule.



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Education plus ideology exaggerates rejection of reality

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We like to think that education changes people for the better, helping them critically analyze information and providing a certain immunity from disinformation. But if that were really true, then you wouldn't have low vaccination rates clustering in areas where parents are, on average, highly educated.

Vaccination isn't generally a political issue. (Or, it is, but it's rejected both by people who don't trust pharmaceutical companies and by those who don't trust government mandates; these tend to cluster on opposite ends of the political spectrum.) But some researchers decided to look at a number of issues that have become politicized, such as the Iraq War, evolution, and climate change. They find that, for these issues, education actually makes it harder for people to accept reality, an effect they ascribe to the fact that "highly educated partisans would be better equipped to challenge information inconsistent with predispositions."

The researchers looked at two sets of questions about the Iraq War. The first involved the justifications for the war (weapons of mass destruction and links to Al Qaeda), as well as the perception of the war outside the US. The second focused on the role of the troop surge in reducing violence within Iraq. At the time the polls were taken, there was a clear reality: no evidence of an active weapons program or links to Al Qaeda; the war was frowned upon overseas; and the surge had successfully reduced violence in the country.

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Atoms queue up for quantum computer networks

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In order to develop future quantum computer networks, it is necessary to hold a known number of atoms

The post Atoms queue up for quantum computer networks has been published on Technology Org.

 
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The Milky Way over the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations

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Zazzle Space Gifts for young and old

Christmas Tree Cluster - NGC 2264 Stickers

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous outer space photograph featuring a colour image of the region known as NGC 2264 - an area of sky that includes the sparkling blue baubles of the Christmas Tree star cluster and the Cone Nebula.

It was created from data taken through four different filters (B, V, R and H-alpha) with the Wide Field Imager at ESO's La Silla Observatory, 2400 m high in the Atacama Desert of Chile in the foothills of the Andes.

The image shows a region of space about 30 light-years across.

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Orion Nebula Hubble Space Room Decals

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


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This Hubble photograph of the Orion Nebula is a great choice for astronomy lovers!

This space photograph shows the massive Orion Nebula, and was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Orion Nebula is the birthplace of many new stars, and over 3000 stars are present in this image, surrounded by swirling clouds of gas and dust. The colours of the original photo have been enhanced slightly, and include rich oranges, pinks and purples.

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

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New Phase of Space Travel Hopes to Set Sail on Sunlight

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The Planetary Society announced that it would send the first of two small spacecraft testing the technology of solar sails into orbit in May.















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Cone Nebula Hubble Space iPad Covers

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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This is a Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the Cone nebula (NGC 2264), which is situated in the Monoceros constellation, 2500 light years away. It depicts a tall pillar of dust and gas against a glowing red background, and the nebula derives its name from the conical appearance it has in ground-based images. This is a composite image, dating from 2002.

Credit: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA.

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Ancient and cratered

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Space Science Image of the Week: NASA’s Galileo spacecraft shares a view of Jupiter’s moon Callisto, one of the worlds that will be explored by ESA’s Juice mission

via ESA Space Science

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/02/Jupiter_s_cratered_moon_Callisto

New catalyst process uses light, not metal, for rapid polymerization

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UC Santa Barbara researchers develop a metal-free Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization process that uses an organic-based photocatalyst Photo

The post New catalyst process uses light, not metal, for rapid polymerization has been published on Technology Org.

 
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Vintage Astronomy, Celestial Planisphere Map Poster

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


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Vintage illustration astronomy and celestial star chart map created in 1702 featuring the signs of the zodiac and other figures from Greek mythology. Planisphere Celeste featuring the constellations of the northern and southern night sky, planets (Mercury, Mars, Venus and Saturn), the phases of the moon and the sun. A mythological representation of our universe.

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Carina Nebula - Breathtaking Universe Sticker

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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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Orion Nebula Hubble Space Room Stickers

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


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This Hubble photograph of the Orion Nebula is a great choice for astronomy lovers!

This space photograph shows the massive Orion Nebula, and was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Orion Nebula is the birthplace of many new stars, and over 3000 stars are present in this image, surrounded by swirling clouds of gas and dust. The colours of the original photo have been enhanced slightly, and include rich oranges, pinks and purples.

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

You can personalise the design further if you'd prefer, such as by adding your name or other text, or adjusting the image - just click 'Customize it' to see all the options. IMPORTANT: If you choose a different sized version of the product, it's important to click Customize and check the image in the Design view to ensure it fills the area to the edge of the product, otherwise white edges may be visible.

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