Monday 23 December 2013

Monogram Star Superbubble, Large Magellanic Cloud Hanging Pendant Lamps

Here's a gorgeous lamp featuring a beautiful image from deep in outer space.


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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series An awesome photograph from deep space featuring a super bubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is a small satellite of our Milky Way galaxy around 160000 light years from us.
The massive stars of this nebula produce intense radiation, expelling matter at high speeds, and race through their main stage finally to explode as supernovas. The stellar winds of charged hydrogen and other particles and the supernova shock waves carve out huge cavities called superbubbles in the surrounding gas. Blue shows hot regions created by these winds and shocks, while red shows where the dust and cooler gas are found. Yellow regions show where ultraviolet radiation from hot, young stars is causing gas in the nebula to glow.
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Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m

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My God... It's Full of Galaxies! Wrapping Paper

Present wrapping paper for citizens of Earth who adore the beauty awaiting them in the universe.


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An awe inspiring view of space featuring many galaxies. A perfect gift for all you Astronomers out there.Image is from the Hubble Space Observatory and is PD.

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Solitons in a crystal: New light source could serve in geo-navigation, search for Earth-like planets

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By creating an optical soliton in a microresonator, scientists have found a new light source that could serve in geo-navigation, telecommunications, spectroscopy and the hunt for new Earth-like planets.

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NASAs Crab Nebula Poster

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

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This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054, as did, almost certainly, Native Americans. The orange filaments are the tattered remains of the star and consist mostly of hydrogen. The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the nebula is the dynamo powering the nebula's eerie interior bluish glow. The blue light comes from electrons whirling at nearly the speed of light around magnetic field lines from the neutron star. The neutron star, like a lighthouse, ejects twin beams of radiation that appear to pulse 30 times a second due to the neutron star's rotation. A neutron star is the crushed ultra-dense core of the exploded star. The Crab Nebula derived its name from its appearance in a drawing made by Irish astronomer Lord Rosse in 1844, using a 36-inch telescope. When viewed by Hubble, as well as by large ground-based telescopes such as the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the Crab Nebula takes on a more detailed appearance that yields clues into the spectacular demise of a star, 6,500 light-years away. The newly composed image was assembled from 24 individual Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 exposures taken in October 1999, January 2000, and December 2000. The colors in the image indicate the different elements that were expelled during the explosion. Blue in the filaments in the outer part of the nebula represents neutral oxygen, green is singly-ionized sulfur, and red indicates doubly-ionized oxygen. Français : Cette image, une des plus grande de la Nébuleuse du Crabe jamais prise par le télescope spatial Hubble de la NASA, est en réalité une mosaïque de plusieurs clichés. La nébuleuse s'étend sur une distance de six années-lumière et est composée des restes de l'explosion d'une supernova. Les astronomes chinois et japonais ont observé cette violente explosion il y a environ un millénaire, en 1054, comme l'ont certainement également fait les indiens d'Amérique. Les filaments d'orange sont les restes en lambeaux de l'étoile et se compose principalement d'hydrogène. L'étoile à neutrons qui tourne rapidement sur elle-même, intégrée dans le centre de la nébuleuse, est la dynamo alimentant l'intérieur de la nébuleuse de l'étrange lueur bleuâtre. La lumière bleue provient des électrons tourbillonnant presque à la vitesse de la lumière autour de lignes du champ magnétique de l'étoile à neutrons. L'étoile à neutrons, comme un phare, expulse des faisceaux de rayonnements jumeaux qui semblent battre 30 fois par seconde en raison de la rotation de l'étoile à neutrons. Une étoile à neutrons est le noyau écrasé ultra-dense de l'étoile qui a explosé. L'image est formée de l'assemblage de 24 prises individuelles de la Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 datant d'octobre 1999, janvier 2000 et décembre 2000. Les couleurs de l'image indiquent les différents éléments qui ont été expulsé lors de l'explosion. Le bleu dans les filaments de la partie extérieure de la nébuleuse représente l'oxygène neutre, le vert est le souffre ionisé I, et le rouge indique l'oxygène ionisé II.

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Rose Galaxy iPad Mini 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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Depicting the Rose Galaxy, courtesy of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

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Space science image of the week: Mars moon Phobos shows off its grooved surface in this spectacular 360 degree movie from ESA’s Mars Express

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http://spaceinvideos.esa.int/Videos/2013/12/Phobos_360

Star Birth in Constellation Cygnus, The Swan Sticker

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


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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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Image credit: NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) and ESA

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