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Friday, 12 December 2014

NGC 3372 Carinae Nebula from the Hubble Case For The iPad Mini

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NGC 3372 Carinae Nebula from the Hubble Case For The iPad Mini

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A Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of NGC 3372. The image is 50 light-years wide and a composite of 48 frames. The false color image was created using the following formula: red for sulfur, green for hydrogen, and blue for oxygen emissions. Sign up to Mr. Rebates for FREE and save 12% on any zazzle order in addition to a $5.00 sign up bonus All Rights Reserved; without: prejudice, recourse or notice (U.C.C. 1-308) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eta_Carinae_Nebula_1.jpg carinae nebula ngc 3372 hubble telescope astronomy space "outer space"

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High-tech mirror to beam heat away from buildings into space

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Omega Centauri giant star cluster poster

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this panoramic view of a colorful assortment of 100,000 stars residing in the crowded core of a giant star cluster. This is one of the first images taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3 that was installed aboard Hubble in May 2009 during Servicing Mission 4, which can snap sharp images over a broad range of wavelengths.

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Researchers use gold substrate to allow for electron cryomicroscopy on difficult proteins

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(Phys.org)—A pair of researchers with the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. has found a way to overcome the problem of movement by many proteins when attempting to study them using electron cryomicroscopy. In their paper published in the journal Science, Christopher Russo and Lori Passmore describe how they created a support structure based on a gold substrate that appears to solve the problem.

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The sugary secrets of candy-making chemistry

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There's a real art to making candy — and a lot of science, too. Even the simplest sugary treat is shaped by complex chemistry. Here's some of the inventive science that goes on behind the scenes of making some of your favorite sweet treats:

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Atomic fireballs get their burn from the same stuff as hot peppers

Atomic Fireballs take cinnamon flavors over the edge into mouth-searing spiciness. To add some heat to their sweets, the makers of Atomic Fireballs, the Ferrara Candy Company, add a bit of a chemical called capsaicin, a little molecule that also gives hot peppers their...

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This scientific study is a con man's dream come true

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How do you decide if you can trust someone? Is it based on their handshake, the way they look you in the eye, or perhaps their body language?

We know that what someone wears has an effect on our trust in them. If you happen to be a doctor, 76 percent of us will favor you if you wear the white coat, compared to only 10 percent if you happen to just pop out in your surgical scrubs. Labels matter too. In one test, four times as many people were willing to stop and answer a survey on one day compared to another. The difference? Whether or not the interviewer had a designer label on their sweatshirt...

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NTSB blames bad battery design—and bad management—in Boeing 787 fires

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Bad battery design and bad engineering practices were to blame for the fire aboard a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 in Boston in 2013, according to a final report (PDF) on the incident issued by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) yesterday. The NTSB found fault not only with the manufacturer of the battery, but with Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

In a prepared statement, NTSB Acting Chairman Christopher A. Hart said, “The investigation identified deficiencies in the design and certification processes that should have prevented an outcome like this. Fortunately, this incident occurred while the airplane was on the ground and with firefighters immediately available."

There are two battery systems aboard the 787: the “main battery” in the front of the aircraft, which powers the 787’s ground maintenance systems and provides backup power to the aircraft’s control systems, and another set in the aft end of the aircraft used to start up the 787’s auxiliary power unit (APU), a small turbine engine in the aircraft’s tail which provides electrical power. Both systems used the same types of lithium-ion batteries manufactured by the Japanese firm GS Yuasa. And while the APU batteries were at fault in the Boston fire, a main battery caught fire two weeks later on an All Nippon Airways flight in Japan.

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Stellar Nursery R136 in the Tarantula Nebula Stickers

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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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Crystals on Mars

This extreme close-up, a mosaic from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the Curiosity rover, spans a breathtaking 5 centimeters. It captures what appear to be elongated crystal shapes formed by the precipitation of minerals dissolved in water, a likely result of the evaporation of ancient lake or river from the Martian surface. Brushed by a dust removal tool and illuminated by white LEDs, the target rock named Mojave was found on the Pink Cliffs outcrop of the Pahrump Hills at the base of Mount Sharp. The MAHLI images were acquired on Curiosity's sol 809, known on planet Earth as November 15, 2014. Of course, the inset 1909 Lincoln Cent image is provided for a comparison scale. Covered with Mars dust itself, the penny is a MAHLI calibration target attached to the rover. Tomorrow's picture: adventures in multiwavelength astronomy

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This beautiful Hubble space photograph shows a cluster of newly formed stars in the N90 star forming region. Shiny twinkling stars are surrounded by brown dust clouds and dark black sky.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

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Nanoshaping method points to future manufacturing technology

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A new method that creates large-area patterns of 3-D nanoshapes from metal sheets represents a potential manufacturing system to inexpensively mass produce innovations such as 'plasmonic metamaterials' for advanced technologies.

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Heat-conducting plastic developed

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The spaghetti-like internal structure of most plastics makes it hard for them to cast away heat, but a

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Nuclear fragments could help uncover the origins of life-supporting planets

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New research describes how recreating isotopes that occur when a star explodes, can help physicists understand where life-supporting elements may be found in space.

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Interstellar mystery solved by supercomputer simulations

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An interstellar mystery of why stars form has been solved thanks to the most realistic supercomputer simulations of galaxies yet made. Theoretical astrophysicists found that stellar activity -- like supernova explosions or even just starlight -- plays a big part in the formation of other stars and the growth of galaxies.

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Scientists develop solar observatory for use on suborbital manned space missions

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Scientists are preparing to unveil a new, miniature portable solar observatory for use onboard a commercial, manned suborbital spacecraft.

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Researchers detect possible signal from dark matter

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Scientists have picked up an atypical photon emission in X-rays coming from space, and say it could be evidence for the existence of a particle of dark matter. If confirmed, it could open up new perspectives in cosmology.

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Star Cluster Pismis 24, core of NGC 6357 Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series The star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the large emission nebula NGC 6357 that extends one degree on the sky in the direction of the Scorpius constellation. Part of the nebula is ionised by the youngest (bluest) heavy stars in Pismis 24. The intense ultraviolet radiation from the blazing stars heats the gas surrounding the cluster and creates a bubble in NGC 6357. The presence of these surrounding gas clouds makes probing into the region even harder. One of the top candidates for the title of "Milky Way stellar heavyweight champion" was, until now, Pismis 24-1, a bright young star that lies in the core of the small open star cluster Pismis 24 (the bright stars in the Hubble image) about 8,000 light-years away from Earth. Pismis 24-1 was thought to have an incredibly large mass of 200 to 300 solar masses. New NASA/ESA Hubble measurements of the star, have, however, resolved Pismis 24-1 into two separate stars, and, in doing so, have "halved" its mass to around 100 solar masses.

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