Wednesday 12 November 2014

Colliding Galaxies NGC 2207 IC 2163 by the Hubble iPad Mini Cover

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Researchers develop world’s thinnest electric generator

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Researchers from Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology report today that they have made the first

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New materials for more powerful solar cells

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Applying a thin film of metallic oxide significantly boosts the performance of solar panel cells. Researchers have developed a new class of materials comprising elements such as bismuth, iron, chromium, and oxygen. These 'multiferroic' materials absorb solar radiation and possess unique electrical and magnetic properties.

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'Forests' of carbon nanotubes grown on 3-D substrates

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Researchers are growing vertically aligned “forests” of carbon nanotubes on three-dimensional (3-D) conductive substrates to explore their potential use as a cathode in next-gen lithium batteries.

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Incoming!

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The final stages of Philae’s touchdown seen through the eyes of the lander’s downwards-looking descent camera

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Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae probe lands on comet

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ESA’s Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved.




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European Space Agency’s Spacecraft Lands on Comet’s Surface

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A signal from the lander arrived at the mission control center at Darmstadt, Germany, just past 11 a.m. Eastern time.















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Supernova discoveries are reported to the International Astronomical Union's Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, which sends out a circular with the name it assigns to it. The name is the year of discovery, immediately followed by a one or two-letter designation. The first 26 supernovae of the year are designated with a capital letter from A to Z. Afterward pairs of lower-case letters are used: aa, ab, and so on.[36] Since 2000, professional and amateur astronomers find several hundreds of supernovae each year (572 in 2007, 261 in 2008, 390 in 2009). For example, the last supernova of 2005 was SN 2005nc, indicating that it was the 367th[nb 1] supernova found in 2005.[37][38] Historical supernovae are known simply by the year they occurred: SN 185, SN 1006, SN 1054, SN 1572 (Tycho's Nova) and SN 1604 (Kepler's Star). Since 1885 the letter notation has been used, even if there was only one supernova discovered that year (e.g. SN 1885A, 1907A, etc.)—this last happened with SN 1947A. "SN", for SuperNova, is a standard prefix. Until 1987, two-letter designations were rarely needed; since 1988, however, they have been needed every year.

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Farewell, Philae

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Rosetta’s parting image of Philae as the lander began its seven-hour descent to the surface of the comet

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History beckons for comet mission

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If the Rosetta probe can get into just the right position around Comet 67P on Wednesday, it will eject the Philae lander on to a seven-hour descent to the surface of the 4km-wide icy object. 
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SpaceShipTwo crash: Virgin Galactic to assess what went wrong

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Full-size replica of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo shown at Farnborough Airshow.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson said that he plans to move forward with his company's plans to commercialize space travel just one day after SpaceShipTwo crashed in the Mojave desert on a test flight.

“We’ve always known that the road to space is extremely difficult - and that every new transportation system has to deal with bad days early in their history,” Branson wrote in a blog post on Saturday.

“Space is hard—but worth it,” he added.

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UW fusion reactor concept could be cheaper than coal

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Fusion energy almost sounds too good to be true – zero greenhouse gas emissions, no long-lived radioactive waste,

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Farewell Rosetta

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Philae’s parting image of Rosetta, taken shortly after separation

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Philae Attempts Comet Nucleus Landing

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The Descent of Philae Toward the Comet in Tweets

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The European Space Agency’s 220-pound lander, named Philae, is marking its fall toward the comet, known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in Tweets.















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Two good things that are better together: STM combined with X-ray synchrotron microscopy

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(Phys.org) —Over the past three decades, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has rapidly become a major component of the condensed matter physics toolbox. While STM can provide vast quantities of data about the electronic, structural, and magnetic properties of materials at atomic resolution, its Achilles heel is its inability to characterize elemental species. But a team from Argonne National Laboratory and Ohio University has found a way around this limitation by combining STM with the spectroscopic versatility of synchrotron x-rays, achieving chemical fingerprinting of individual nickel clusters on a copper surface at a resolution of 2 nm, creating a powerful and versatile nanoscale imaging tool with exciting promise and potential for the materials and biological sciences. Their work was published in Nano Letters.



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"Hubble Space Telescope" Cover For The iPad Mini

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Rosetta and Philae separation confirmed

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The Philae lander has separated from the Rosetta orbiter, and is now on its way to becoming the first spacecraft to touch down on a comet.




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Biological sample prep time cut dramatically — from days to minutes

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When Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers invented the field of biological accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) in the late

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How standard is the Higgs boson discovered in 2012?



The highlight of the first run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was undoubtedly the discovery by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations of a new elementary particle of a type never seen before. All the properties of this particle measured so far are consistent with those predicted for the Higgs boson of the Standard Model. It was predicted to have zero spin (angular momentum), and every alternative option tested has by now been ruled out with a high degree of confidence. It was predicted to couple with other particles proportionally to their masses, and this is strongly supported by the data. This is why the committee that awarded the 2013 Nobel Physics Prize to Francois Englert and Peter Higgs stated “Beyond any reasonable doubt, it is a Higgs boson.”


Physicists are now asking themselves follow-up questions. Is there any difference between its properties and those predicted in the Standard Model? Is it the only Higgs boson, or are there others? Many of its couplings to other particles have been measured, but what about its coupling to the heaviest known particle, the top quark? Or its couplings to lighter particles like the muon? What gives its mass to this Higgs boson? Is it truly an elementary particle, or is it made of some smaller constituents? Is it a portal to some new physics beyond the Standard Model, such as dark matter?


The next run of the LHC, starting in the spring of 2015, will set about answering some of these questions. For example, its higher energy will enable the LHC experiments to probe more deeply for deviations from the Standard Model predictions, and to search for heavier Higgs bosons. It will be possible to measure directly this Higgs boson's coupling to the top quark, and to box in its possible coupling to the muon. These measurements may reveal some substructure inside this Higgs boson, or provide some other evidence for physics beyond the Standard Model. Time will tell!





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Rosetta and Philae Go for separation

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Following a night of critical Go/NoGo decisions, Rosetta and Philae are cleared for separation, despite a problem onboard the lander. The mission is set to become the first in history to touch down on a comet.




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NASAs - Pink Pleiades Poster

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The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Clouds of dust sweep around the stars, swaddling them in a cushiony veil. The Pleiades, located more than 400 light-years away in the Taurus constellation, are the subject of many legends and writings. Greek mythology holds that the flock of stars was transformed into celestial doves by Zeus to save them from a pursuant Orion. The 19th-century poet Alfred Lord Tennyson described them as "glittering like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid."

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Crab Pulsar Time Lapse - Neutron Star Stickers

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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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Tail discovered on long-known asteroid

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Astronomers have discovered a new active asteroid, called 62412, in the Solar System's main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is the first comet-like object seen in the Hygiea family of asteroids.

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Space: The final frontier in silicon chemistry

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Silicon, which is one of the most common elements in Earth’s crust, is also sprinkled abundantly throughout interstellar space. The only way to identify silicon-containing molecules in the far corners of the cosmos – and to understand the chemistry that created them – is to observe through telescopes the electromagnetic radiation the molecules emit.

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