The coldest spot in the known universe

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Everyone knows that space is cold. In the vast gulf between stars and galaxies, the temperature of gaseous matter routinely drops to 3 Kelvin, or 454 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.



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Red skies discovered on extreme brown dwarf

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A peculiar example of a celestial body, known as a brown dwarf, with unusually red skies has been discovered by a team of astronomers.

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Monogram - Cigar Galaxy - Messier 82 Round Sticker

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Monogram - Cigar Galaxy - Messier 82 Round Sticker

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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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The Terraced Night

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Long after sunset on January 25 an unusually intense red airglow floods this south-looking skyscape. The scene was recorded with a long exposure using a digital camera over Yunnan Province in southwest China. At best faintly visible to the eye, the lingering airglow is due to chemiluminescence, the production of light through chemical excitation. Originating at an altitude similar to aurora, it can found around the globe. The chemical energy is initially provided by the Sun's extreme ultraviolet radiation On this night, despite the luminous atmosphere, the band of the Milky Way clearly stretches above the horizon with bright star Sirius near the top of the frame. Both airglow and starry sky are beautifully reflected in region's watery Yuanyang rice terraces below.

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Gaia comes into focus

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ESA’s billion-star surveyor Gaia is slowly being brought into focus. This test image shows a dense cluster of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.

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Carina Nebula: The Caterpillar Wall Graphics

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Carina Nebula: The Caterpillar Wall Graphics

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"This Hubble Space Telescope view of the central region of the Carina Nebula reveals a violent maelstrom of star birth. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the intense pressure of starlight from monster stars and their accompanying star clusters, as well as the hydrodynamics of their stellar winds of charged particles."

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Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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Electronically controlled drugs could minimize side effects

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Potential side effects of many of today's therapeutic drugs can be downright frightening -- just listen carefully to a drug commercial on TV. These effects often occur when a drug is active throughout the body, not just where and when it is needed. But scientists are reporting progress on a new tailored approach to deliver medicine in a much more targeted way.

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S0 Galaxy NGC 5866

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S0 Galaxy NGC 5866

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"This is a unique NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight.

Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves. The image highlights the galaxy's structure: a subtle, reddish bulge surrounding a bright nucleus, a blue disk of stars running parallel to the dust lane, and a transparent outer halo."

(qtd. from HubbleSite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2006-24)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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Early universe 'warmed up' later than previously believed: Research suggests a way to detect the earliest black holes

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A new study reveals that black holes, formed from the first stars in our universe, heated the gas throughout space later than previously thought. They also imprinted a clear signature in radio waves which astronomers can now search for. The study is a major new finding about the origins of the universe.

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Heavy metal in the early cosmos: Simulations shed light on formation and explosion of stars in earliest galaxies

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Researchers have simulated the formation of the Universe from the Big Bang through the first few hundred million years of its existence. The researchers found that more realistic models of supernova blasts help explain the range of metalicity found in different galaxies. The results of the simulations will assist in guiding the James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch in 2018.

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Luke 6:31 gift wrap paper

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Do to others as you would have them do to you. Luke 6:31 Taken right out of the Bible, this heavenly scripture is a message of love, hope, faith and encouragement. Let these sacred words penetrate your body, mind and spirit and look in wonder at the NASA photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and you will KNOW we have an awesome GOD and miracles can and do happen!Original image by ESA/HUBBLE, and graphic design by Angelina LaFera.

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Carina Nebula in Argo Navis constellation Sticker

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Carina Nebula in Argo Navis constellation Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Hubble's view of the Carina Nebula shows star birth in a new level of detail. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this inferno. In the process, these stars are shredding the surrounding material that is the last vestige of the giant cloud from which the stars were born. The immense nebula is an estimated 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina the Keel (of the old southern constellation Argo Navis, the ship of Jason and the Argonauts, from Greek mythology).
The original image is a mosaic of the Carina Nebula assembled from 48 frames taken with Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The Hubble images were taken in the light of ionized hydrogen. Colour information was added with data taken at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Red corresponds to sulfur, green to hydrogen, and blue to oxygen emission.

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Carina Nebula: Great Clouds Wall Sticker

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"This Hubble Space Telescope view of the central region of the Carina Nebula reveals a violent maelstrom of star birth. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the intense pressure of starlight from monster stars and their accompanying star clusters, as well as the hydrodynamics of their stellar winds of charged particles."

(qtd. from the HubbleSite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2007-16)

Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

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