NGC 602 bright stars Cover For The iPad Mini

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NGC 602 bright stars Cover For The iPad Mini

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NGC 602 is a young, bright open cluster of stars located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. Radiation and shock waves from the stars have pushed away much of the lighter surrounding gas and dust that compose the nebula known as N90, and this in turn has triggered new star formation in the ridges (or "elephant trunks") of the nebula.

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Nanoshaping method points to future manufacturing technology

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A new method that creates large-area patterns of three-dimensional nanoshapes from metal sheets represents a potential manufacturing system

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Vintage Astronomy Celestial Stars in the Night Sky Print

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Vintage Astronomy Celestial Stars in the Night Sky Print

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Vintage illustration astronomy and celestial star chart map by the Dutch cartographer family Frederik de Wit. Frederik de Wit can refer to any of three members (Father, son or grandson) of a family of Dutch engravers, cartographers and publishers. The senior de Wit opened a printing office in Amsterdam under the name "De Witte Pascaert".

Planisphæri cœleste, 1680, is a celestial planisphere featuring the constellations of the northern and southern hemispheres (with the signs of the zodiac), the earth, sun and phases of the moon.

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Early Rosetta data causes rethink of where Earth got its water

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During its early history, the Earth was struck by enough material falling from space to have boiled off its oceans—and that's ignoring the fact that the entire surface of the planet was vaporized by the collision that formed the Moon. This means that Earth wasn't in any condition to look like the blue marble we see today, with abundant oceans and an atmosphere.

So where did all the water come from? Once the pace of collisions slackened, each impact was able to deliver material to the Earth that wasn't immediately boiled off by the next one. Over time, objects returned the Earth to its watery state. But scientists have been debating over which objects for quite some time, with the pendulum swinging back and forth between asteroids and comets. Now, thanks to Rosetta's visit to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, asteroids are looking like a better bet.

Tracing the origin of water isn't as simple as running the numbers on a license plate. But the Solar System provides a helpful clue in the form of deuterium, a heavier isotope of hydrogen. Closer to the Sun, processes seem to have led to an exchange between deuterium and hydrogen, leaving those regions with a relatively low abundance of the heavier isotope. More distant bodies, which received less radiation from the Sun, have much more deuterium than bodies in the inner Solar System. In general, it appears that there was a nearly linear increase in deuterium as distance from the Sun increased.

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Researchers demonstrate new way to plug ‘leaky’ light cavities

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Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have demonstrated a new and more efficient way to trap

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The unexpected beauty of carbon nanotubes and graphene

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We all know engineering is useful, functional, even ingenious. But the engineering photography competition we hold each year provides us a chance to wander outside its merely utilitarian aspects into dimensions such as beauty, humor, and even humanity to find unexpected connections and poetic resonance.

As one of the judges, one quality I look for in the images is some added dimension, a richness, the capacity to trigger a cascade of unrelated ideas. Quite by accident this year a few of the photos shared an unplanned underwater theme.

The winner (above) appeared to be a starfish. There was...

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Carina Nebula - Breathtaking Universe Sticker

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Carina Nebula - Breathtaking Universe Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series

A gorgeous set of oval stickers showing the area surrounding the stellar cluster NGC 2467, located in the southern constellation of Puppis ("The Stern"). With an age of a few million years at most, it is a very active stellar nursery, where new stars are born continuously from large clouds of dust and gas.

The image, looking like a colourful cosmic ghost or a gigantic celestial Mandrill, contains the open clusters Haffner 18 (centre) and Haffner 19 (middle right: it is located inside the smaller pink region - the lower eye of the Mandrill), as well as vast areas of ionised gas.

The bright star at the centre of the largest pink region on the bottom of the image is HD 64315, a massive young star that is helping shaping the structure of the whole nebular region.

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Cetus Duo M77 and NGC 1055

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At the top right, large spiral galaxy NGC 1055 joins spiral Messier 77 in this sharp cosmic view toward the aquatic constellation Cetus. The narrowed, dusty appearance of edge-on spiral NGC 1055 contrasts nicely with the face-on view of M77's bright nucleus and spiral arms. Both over 100,000 light-years across, the pair are dominant members of a small galaxy group about 60 million light-years away. At that estimated distance, M77 is one of the most remote objects in Charles Messier's catalog and is separated from fellow island universe NGC 1055 by at least 500,000 light-years. The field of view is about the size of the full Moon on the sky and includes colorful foreground Milky Way stars (with diffraction spikes) along with more distant background galaxies. Tomorrow's picture: winter sky

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Orion Nebula Hubble Space Room Decals

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Orion Nebula Hubble Space Room Decals

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This Hubble photograph of the Orion Nebula is a great choice for astronomy lovers!

This space photograph shows the massive Orion Nebula, and was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Orion Nebula is the birthplace of many new stars, and over 3000 stars are present in this image, surrounded by swirling clouds of gas and dust. The colours of the original photo have been enhanced slightly, and include rich oranges, pinks and purples.

Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto ( Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

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Stellar Nursery R136 in the Tarantula Nebula iPad Cases

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Stellar Nursery R136 in the Tarantula Nebula iPad Cases

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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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Study confirms controversial nitrite hypothesis

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Understanding how nitrite can improve conditions such as hypertension, heart attack and stroke has been the object of

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Vintage Astronomy, Celestial Planisphere Map Poster

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Vintage Astronomy, Celestial Planisphere Map Poster

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Vintage illustration astronomy and celestial star chart map created in 1702 featuring the signs of the zodiac and other figures from Greek mythology. Planisphere Celeste featuring the constellations of the northern and southern night sky, planets (Mercury, Mars, Venus and Saturn), the phases of the moon and the sun. A mythological representation of our universe.

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Stellar Nurseries RCW120 Stickers

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Stellar Nurseries RCW120 Stickers

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A fantastic set of stickers, with a monogram for you to change, featuring a colour composite image of RCW120.

It reveals how an expanding bubble of ionised gas about ten light-years across is causing the surrounding material to collapse into dense clumps where new stars are then formed.

The 870-micron submillimetre-wavelength data were taken with the LABOCA camera on the 12-m Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope. Here, the submillimetre emission is shown as the blue clouds surrounding the reddish glow of the ionised gas (shown with data from the SuperCosmos H-alpha survey). The image also contains data from the Second Generation Digitized Sky Survey (I-band shown in blue, R-band shown in red).

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Pink Star Cluster Pacman Nebula Room Decal

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Pink Star Cluster Pacman Nebula Room Decal

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This is a NASA space photograph of the star cluster NGC 281, which is also known as the Pacman nebula. This infrared image was taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope, and has a bright pink appearance.

Image Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/S.Wolk; IR: NASA/JPL/CfA/S.Wolk

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