Wednesday 11 March 2015

The Orion Nebula iPad Air 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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A lovely detailed image of the Orion Nebula in infrared thanks to NASA/Hubble.

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Precision gas sensor could fit on a chip

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Using their expertise in silicon optics, Cornell engineers have miniaturized a light source in the elusive mid-infrared (mid-IR)

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Graphene: A new tool for fighting cavities and gum disease?

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Dental diseases, which are caused by the overgrowth of certain bacteria in the mouth, are among the most common health problems in the world. Now scientists have discovered that a material called graphene oxide is effective at eliminating these bacteria, some of which have developed antibiotic resistance.

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Silk could be new 'green' material for next-generation batteries

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Lithium-ion batteries have enabled many of today's electronics, from portable gadgets to electric cars. But much to the frustration of consumers, none of these batteries last long without a recharge. Now scientists report the development of a new, 'green' way to boost the performance of these batteries -- with a material derived from silk.

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Graphenea sponsors Best Talk prize at Imperial College Department of Materials' Postdoctoral Symposium

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Aside from our scientific and technological pursuits, Graphenea strives to engage in education on a broader scale. Along this direction, Graphenea's Alba Centeno and Beatriz Alonso gave an introductory talk at the London's Imperial College Department of Materials' 5th Postdoctoral Symposium. Graphenea also sponsored a prize for the best talk.


The traditional symposium gives postdoctoral fellows an opportunity to show their research in front of their peers, either through an oral presentation or on a poster. Dr. Victoria García Rocha, an Intra-European Marie Curie Fellow, won the prize with a talk entitled “Engineering 3D Architectures From Chemically Modified Graphene”.


Image courtesy of CASC.


Dr. García Rocha works at the Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics (CASC). CASC started in July 2008 with national EPSRC funding (£5.5M) for a five-year program. At the end of the national funding period, the research unit continued to function as an industrial consortium. The CASC, directed by Professor Eduardo Saiz Gutierrez and guided by industrial partners, has developed a significant number of active industrial collaborations both abroad and from the UK. The industrial consortium has built on CASC's early success, enabling its sustainability and continuing a long-term fruitful relationship between CASC-associated academics and the industrial structural ceramics community. Graphenea is a partner of CASC.


CASC is embedded in and draws its resources from the College's Department of Materials, which houses a large number of scientists working on a wide range of materials-related topics, including biomaterials, ceramics and glasses, engineering alloys, functional materials, nanotechnology, and theory and simulation. The department is the oldest of its kind in the UK, and houses over one hundred postgraduate students, as well as world-class facilities for material characterization.




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Spacecraft data suggest Saturn moon's ocean may harbor hydrothermal

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first clear evidence that Saturn's moon Enceladus exhibits signs of present-day hydrothermal activity which may resemble that seen in the deep oceans on Earth. The implications of such activity on a world other than our planet open up unprecedented scientific possibilities.

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Hot water activity on icy moon’s seafloor

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Tiny grains of rock detected by the international Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn point to hydrothermal activity on the seafloor of its icy moon Enceladus.




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Theoretical physicists design 'holy grail' of materials science

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Graphene is a form of carbon in which the atoms are connected in a honeycomb structure. The possible ‘holy grail’ has this same structure, but is made of nanocrystals of mercury and tellurium. In their paper, theoretical physicists show that this material combines the properties of graphene with the qualities graphene misses. At room temperature, it is a semiconductor instead of a conductor, so that it can be used as a field-effect transistor. And it fulfils the conditions required to realise quantum spintronics, because it may host the quantum spin Hall effect at room temperature.

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Stonehenge at Night Posters

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


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Black hole is the most massive discovered in the early Universe

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At the core of every galaxy lies a supermassive black hole (SMBH). These behemoths are many times the size of ordinary black holes. And unlike your garden-variety stellar-mass black hole, supermassive black holes didn’t form from a collapsing star; rather, they formed.... well, we actually don’t know how they formed. But we do know just how big they are. An ordinary black hole can have about five to several tens of times the mass of the Sun (solar masses), where our own galaxy’s SMBH has about four million solar masses.

While we don’t yet know the mechanism by which SMBHs form, the prevailing thought is that they formed (relatively) small, with “only” 100 to 100,000 solar masses. They would then have gained mass over time as they gobbled up matter, ultimately growing to become the giants we see today.

A new SMBH has now been discovered with about twelve billion solar masses. By itself, that’s not unprecedented; others have been discovered with roughly the same mass. What’s astounding about the new discovery is the extreme distance of the SMBH—about 12.8 billion light-years from Earth—and hence, how quickly after the Big Bang it formed.

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Experiment brings precision to a cornerstone of particle physics

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Geneva, 11 February 2015. In a paper published yesterday in the journal Physical Review Letters, the COMPASS experiment

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Crab Pulsar Time Lapse - Neutron Star Square Stickers

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


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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series 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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A grand extravaganza of new stars

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This dramatic landscape in the southern constellation of Ara (The Altar) is a treasure trove of celestial objects. Star clusters, emission nebulae and active star-forming regions are just some of the riches observed in this region lying some 4000 light-years from Earth. This beautiful new image is the most detailed view of this part of the sky so far, and was taken using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile.

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Volcano of Fire Erupts Under the Stars

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Open Star Cluster NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula Room Graphics

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


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NGC 3324 is a star cluster at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), home of the Keyhole Nebula and star Eta Carinae. This photograph was produced by European Southern Observatory (ESO). Their website states: "All ESO still and motion pictures are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported, unless the credit byline indicates otherwise." Source http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1207a/ Author ESO

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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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Nebula in Turquoise iPad Air Powis Case iPad Air Covers

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In quest for better lithium-air batteries, chemists boost carbon’s stability

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To power a car so it can travel hundreds of miles at a time, lithium-ion batteries of the

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CERN wins award for best Twitter account in Switzerland

Monogram - Crab Pulsar Time Lapse - Neutron Star Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series 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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Fast-moving unbound star has broken the galactic speed record

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Astronomers have discovered the fastest ever unbound star in our galaxy. The unbound star, named US708, is traveling at 1,200 kilometers per second -- the fastest speed ever recorded for such an object in our galaxy -- meaning it is not held back by gravity and will eventually leave the Milky Way.

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Boomerang Nebula Hubble Astronomy Wall Decor

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Hubble photograph of the Boomerang Nebula

This photograph of the Boomerang Nebula was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1998. It shows the bow-tie-shaped nebula in beautiful bright blue and white colours, against a dark starry background.

Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and the WFPC2 Science Team

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