Friday 17 July 2015

NASA's New Horizons discovers frozen plains in the heart of Pluto's 'heart'

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In the latest data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto's icy mountains, in the center-left of the heart feature, informally named "Tombaugh Regio" (Tombaugh Region) after Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930.
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Pluto Terrain Yields Big Surprises in New Horizons Images

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Images from the NASA mission show a mixed bag of terrains, including ice mountains and smooth plains crisscrossed by enigmatic troughs.










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New technology reduces dangerous methane

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A new technology, biocover, has been developed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from landfill sites. About ten per

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Orion, from head to toes (portrait orientation) poster

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Preparing to build ESA’s Jupiter mission

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Airbus Defence & Space in France has been selected as the prime industrial contractor for ESA’s Juice mission to Jupiter and its icy moons.


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Tarantula Nebula Star Forming Gas Cloud Sculpture Star Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series An awesome mobile phone shell featuring the Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way, our galactic home. This Hubble image shows old stars from the distant past and rich, interstellar gas clouds feeding the formation of new ones. The most massive and hottest stars are intense, high-energy radiation sources and this pushes away what remains of the gas and dust, compressing and sculpting it. As the whorls and eddies clump and stretch it, gravity takes over and the birth of the next generation of new stars is triggered.

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Custom Name, Deep Space Phenomena Cigar Galaxy Wrapping Paper

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Composite of images of the active galaxy Messier 82 from the three Great Observatories: Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope. X-ray data recorded by Chandra appears here in blue, infrared light recorded by Spitzer appears in red. Hubble's observation of hydrogen emission appears in orange. Hubble's bluest observation appears in yellow-green.
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Charon

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Icy world Charon is 1,200 kilometers across. That makes Pluto's largest moon only about 1/10th the size of planet Earth but a whopping 1/2 the diameter of Pluto itself. Charon is seen in unprecedented detail in this image from New Horizons. The image was captured late July 13 during the spacecraft's flight through the Plutonian system from a range of less than 500,000 kilometers. For reference, the distance separating Earth and Moon is less than 400,000 kilometers. Charonian terrain, described as surprising, youthful, and varied, includes a 1,000 kilometer swath of cliffs and troughs stretching below center, a 7 to 9 kilometer deep canyon cutting the curve of the upper right edge, and an enigmatic dark north polar region unofficially dubbed Mordor.

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Pink Rose Galaxies Cover For The iPad Mini

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In April 2011 for the 21st Anniversary of Hubble, NASA released a lovely image of two galaxies interacting to form what looks like a rose with stem. Together the pair are "Arp 273". The larger of the spiral galaxies UGC 1810 is being pulled into a distorted "rose" spiral thanks to to the gravitational influence of the companion "stem" galaxy below it (UGC 1813).

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Researchers to test new optical fibre 3D printing technique

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Researchers at the University of Southampton are set to investigate using 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, techniques in

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Eagle Nebula Print

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This eerie, dark structure in IC 4703 (the Eagle nebula) is a column of cool molecular hydrogen gas and dust that is an incubator for new stars. The stars are embedded inside finger-like protrusions clearly seen extending from the top of the column. Each "fingertip" is somewhat larger than our own solar system. The pillar is slowly eroding away by the ultraviolet light from nearby hot stars, a process called "photoevaporation". As it does, small globules of especially dense gas buried within the cloud are uncovered. These globules have been dubbed "EGGs" ; an acronym for "Evaporating Gaseous Globules". The shadows of the EGGs protect gas behind them, resulting in the finger-like structures at the top of the cloud.

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Strangers on the Street Find a Connection in the Stars

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On recent nights, Felton Davis has left his home with his telescope in hand with hopes to spark conversations with people using it and experiencing what he calls “sidewalk astronomy.”










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Amateur astronomers spot one in a billion star

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The Gaia satellite has discovered a unique binary system where one star is ‘eating’ the other, but neither star has any hydrogen, the most common element in the Universe. The system could be an important tool for understanding how binary stars might explode at the end of their lives.
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Name, Flame Nebula in Orion, intriguing deep space Wrapping Paper

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous outer space picture featuring the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings.
In views of this evocative object in visible light the core of the nebula is completely hidden behind obscuring dust, but in this VISTA view, taken in infrared light, the cluster of very young stars at the object’s heart is revealed. The wide-field VISTA view also includes the glow of the reflection nebula NGC 2023, just below centre, and the ghostly outline of the Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) towards the lower right.
The bright bluish star towards the right is one of the three bright stars forming the Belt of Orion. The image was created from VISTA images taken through J, H and Ks filters in the near-infrared part of the spectrum.
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A most singular nano-imaging technique

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'SINGLE' is a new imaging technique that provides the first atomic-scale 3-D structures of individual nanoparticles in solution. This is an important step for improving the design of colloidal nanoparticles for catalysis and energy research applications.
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Star Birth in Constellation Cygnus, The Swan Star Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous star forming region in Constellation Cygnus (The Swan). This Hubble image shows a dust-rich, interstellar gas cloud with a new-born star in the centre of the hour-glass shape. The glowing blue of the hydrogen in this nebula is due to the jets being emitted from the forming star as dust falls into into it and this causes the heating and turbulence of the hydrogen. The star, known as S106 IR, is reaching the end of its birth and will soon enter the much quieter period of adulthood known as the main stage.

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New Horizons close-up of Charon's 'mountain in a moat'

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A new image of an area on Pluto's largest moon Charon has a captivating feature -- a depression with a peak in the middle.
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Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 iPad Mini Cases

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Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 released thanks to Hubble/NASA.

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