Improving detection of radioactive material in nuclear waste water

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As the Fukushima crisis continues to remind the world of the potential dangers of nuclear disposal and unforeseen accidents, scientists are reporting progress toward a new way to detect the radioactive materials uranium and plutonium in waste water.

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Monogram Tarantula Nebula, outer space image Ceiling Lamps

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds in appear in this the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus (or Tarantula) Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.
There is no known star-forming region in our galaxy as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus. Many of the diamond-like icy blue stars are among the most massive stars known. Several of them are over 100 times more massive than our Sun. These hefty stars are destined to pop off, like a string of firecrackers, as supernovas in a few million years. The image, taken in ultraviolet, visible, and red light by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, spans about 100 light-years.
The movement of the LMC around the Milky Way may have triggered the massive cluster's formation in several ways. The gravitational tug of the Milky Way and the companion Small Magellanic Cloud may have compressed gas in the LMC. Also, the pressure resulting from the LMC plowing through the Milky Way's halo may have compressed gas in the satellite. The cluster is a rare, nearby example of the many super star clusters that formed in the distant, early universe, when star birth and galaxy interactions were more frequent.
The LMC is located 170,000 light-years away and is a member of the Local Group of Galaxies, which also includes the Milky Way. The Hubble observations were taken Oct. 20-27, 2009. The blue color is light from the hottest, most massive stars; the green from the glow of oxygen; and the red from fluorescing hydrogen.
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Astronomers reveal contents of mysterious black hole jets

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An international team of astronomers has answered a long standing question about the enigmatic jets emitted by black holes, in research published today in prestigious journal Nature.

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Black hole boasts heavyweight jets

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Astronomers studying a black hole in our Galaxy with ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory have made a surprising discovery about the cocktail of particles that are ejected from its surroundings.

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http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Black_hole_boasts_heavyweight_jets

Carina Nebulae space Poster

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To commemorate Hubble Telescope's 20th Birthday, NASA, along with ESA and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI), released several of Hubble's findings.

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Young stars paint spectacular stellar landscape

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Most stars do not form alone, but with many siblings that are created at about the same time from a single cloud of gas and dust. NGC 3572, in the southern constellation of Carina (The Keel), is one of these clusters. It contains many hot young blue-white stars that shine brightly and generate powerful stellar winds that tend to gradually disperse the remaining gas and dust from their surroundings. The glowing gas clouds and accompanying cluster of stars are the subjects of a new picture from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile.

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Star Cluster NGC 346 Hubble Space Room Graphic

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Star Cluster NGC 346 Hubble Space Room Graphic

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This is a Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the star forming region NGC 346. This is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, about 210,000 light years from Earth. In this image, the gas clouds have a pink and purple appearance, and are studded with many sparkling stars.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Nota (ESA/STScI, STScI/AURA)

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Carina Nebula iPad Mini Case

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Carina Nebula iPad Mini Case

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A lovely detail of an image of the Carina Nebula thanks to NASA/Hubble.

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Young stars paint spectacular stellar landscape

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Astronomers at ESO have captured the best image so far of the clouds around the star cluster NGC 3572. This image shows how these clouds of gas and dust have been sculpted into bubbles, arcs and the odd features known as elephant trunks by the stellar winds flowing from this gathering of hot stars. The brightest of these cluster stars are much heavier than the Sun and will end their short lives as supernova explosions.



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Monogram Cats Paw Nebula in Scorpius space picture Hanging Lamp

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Monogram Cats Paw Nebula in Scorpius space picture Hanging Lamp

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A breathtaking outer space picture showing an infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) taken by VISTA. NGC 6334 is a vast region of star formation about 5500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius.

The whole gas cloud is about 50 light-years across. NGC 6334 is one of the most active nurseries of young massive stars in our galaxy, some nearly ten times the mass of our Sun and most born in the last few million years.
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Graphene Gladiator kicks off

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A European project to make large area, high quality graphene sheets for transparent electrodes has kicked off at the beginning of this month. Project Gladiator (Graphene Layers: Production, Characterization and Integration), worth a total of 12.4 million euros, includes 16 partners from 7 countries. Graphenea is the leading industrial expert on CVD growth of large graphene sheets in the consortium, which includes Aixtron, the Technical University of Denmark, and others, and is led by Fraunhofer COMEDD.

GLADIATOR directly targets the global market for transparent electrodes (estimated to be worth over 11,000 million USD in 2016) and will demonstrate that the performance and price of indium tin oxide (ITO) can be matched by graphene (transparency > 90%, sheet resistance < 10 W/sq, cost < 30 Eur/m²). New production technologies will be demonstrated by making ultraviolet organic photodiodes (with possible application as flame detectors) and large area flexible OLEDs.

The project will achieve this by

• optimizing the performance of CVD graphene (using doping)


• increasing the throughput and size of CVD batch reactors


• improving the process by which graphene is transferred from the CVD catalysts to the application substrate.

CVD graphene production will be optimized using new diagnostic and process control instrumentation based on Raman spectroscopy and spectrometric ellipsometry; the quality of graphene layers post-transfer will be assured using new non-contact in-line eddy current measurements and THz imaging. CVD production costs per unit area will be reduced not only by process parameter optimization, but also by developing methods to re-use the catalysts and by increasing the size of the reactor chamber. Process safety will also be addressed.

A critical issue for graphene, especially as a transparent electrode, is how to achieve homogenous large area coverage. GLADIATOR will extend the size of graphene layers beyond that of the CVD tools by implementing a novel patchwork process using a transfer process with high yields and negligible impact upon the properties of the graphene. Transfer processes will be developed for rigid and flexible substrates appropriate for organic large area electronics (OLAE), and substrate and barrier properties will be optimized for use with graphene.

The GLADIATOR project (FP7 grant agreement number 604000) began on 1st November 2013 and will finish in April 2017 after 42 months. Graphene has long been considered as an alternative to ITO as a material of choice for transparent conducting electrodes, the most imminent use being touchscreens. Compared to the brittle ITO, graphene has the advantage of being flexible, leading to visions of future bendable touchscreens. Gladiator aims to address the main barriers to fulfilling this vision.

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NASA Cassini spacecraft provides new view of Saturn and Earth

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NASA has released a natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible. The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn system taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the view as it would be seen by human eyes. Cassini's imaging team processed 141 wide-angle images to create the panorama. The image sweeps 404,880 miles (651,591 kilometers) across Saturn and its inner ring system.

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Planets and dwarf planets poster

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Planets and dwarf planets of the solar system

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Carina Nebula Hubble Space Room Decal

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Carina Nebula Hubble Space Room Decal

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Hubble telescope photograph of the Carina Nebula

This photo of the Carina Nebula was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is reminiscent of a sci-fi/fantasy illustration, and shows an enormous mountainous pillar of dust and gas in rich orange tones, against a starlit deep blue background.

Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

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