Tarantula Nebula Hubble Space iPad Folio Case

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Tarantula Nebula Hubble Space iPad Folio Case

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Cool space / astronomy photograph from NASA. This is a Hubble Space Telescope photograph showing a detailed area of the Tarantula nebula. This nebula is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, about 170,000 million light years away. This photo has shades of blue, green and orange, with sparkling stars.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA

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New technique for making graphene competitor, molybdenum disulfide

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Researchers have made an advance in manufacturing molybdenum disulphide, a 2-D material that could compete with graphene for replacing silicon in next-generation electronics. By growing flakes of the material around 'seeds' of molybdenum oxide, they have made it easier to control the size, thickness and location of the material.

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New catalyst uses light to convert nitrogen to ammonia

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Northwestern University scientists are the first to develop a catalyst that can perform a remarkable feat found only

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Hubble Gets Best View of a Circumstellar Debris Disk Distorted by a Planet

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Over a decade before planets were found orbiting normal stars, the astronomy world was intrigued by the discovery of a vast, edge-on, pancake-flat disk of dust and gas encircling the newborn star Beta Pictoris. It appeared to validate the hypothesis by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, 230 years ago, that our solar system was born when planets condensed from nebular material in the plane of such a disk. (This model was independently proposed by French scholar Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1796.) Kant regarded the coplanar obits of the planets a fossil skeleton of the long-ago disintegrated disk. Though nearly two dozen circumstellar debris disks have been viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope to date, Beta Pictoris is the first and best example of what a forming young planetary system looks like. That's because it can be seen edge on, and it is the only disk to date where a planet has also been imaged. Hubble has been used to intensively study the disk for the past two decades and this latest picture when compared to previous observations shows that the disk particles appear to smoothly revolve around the star like a majestic carousel. Ground-based telescopes found a Jupiter-sized world embedded in the disk in 2009, and future observations may yield more planetary objects.

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Hubble gets best view of a circumstellar debris disk distorted by a planet

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Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris. The new image traces the disk in closer to the star to within about 650 million miles of the star.

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A new view of the solar system: Astrophysical jets driven by the sun

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New research suggests that the sun's magnetic field controls the large-scale shape of the heliosphere much more than expected. The new model shows that the magnetic field squeezes the solar wind along the sun's north-south axis, producing two jets. These jets are then dragged downstream by the flow of the interstellar medium -- the gases and dust that lie between star systems.

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Semiconductor works better when hitched to graphene

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Graphene -- a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon with highly desirable electrical properties, flexibility and strength -- shows great promise for future electronics, advanced solar cells, protective coatings and other uses, and combining it with other materials could extend its range even further.

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New paper-like material could boost electric vehicle batteries

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Researchers have developed a novel paper-like material for lithium-ion batteries. It has the potential to boost by several times the specific energy, or amount of energy that can be delivered per unit weight of the battery.

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Atomically thin gas and chemical sensors

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The relatively recent discovery of graphene, a two-dimensional layered material with unusual and attractive electronic, optical and thermal properties, led scientists to search for other atomically thin materials with unique properties.

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Full Moon Poster Print

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Full Moon Poster Print

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High resolution Full Moon Photo from Robsastrophotography

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Classical nova explosions are major lithium factories in the universe

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Astronomers observed Nova Delphini 2013 which occurred on August 14, 2013. They discovered that the outburst is producing a large amount of lithium (Li). Lithium is a key element in the study of the chemical evolution of the universe because it likely was and is produced in several ways: through Big Bang nucleosynthesis, in collisions between energetic cosmic rays and the interstellar medium, inside stellar interiors, and as a result of novae and supernova explosions. This new observation provides the first direct evidence for the supply of Li from stellar objects to the galactic medium.

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Mars One narrows applicant pool to 100 potential dead Martians

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Will Australian teenager Teah survive the "Mars 100" round and find herself on a one-way rocket to the red planet? Tune in to find out.

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On Tuesday, the Mars One foundation took one small step closer to its mission of sending humans to Mars by announcing the "Mars 100," a group of 100 men and women who've moved on from the initial applicant pool of thousands. The private nonprofit reached that number, divided evenly between men and women, after narrowing down from last year's list of 705 hopefuls—all of whom paid an entry fee of roughly $38 to sign up for what's been clearly advertised as a one-way trip to their deaths.

The remaining 100 (which, if you're wondering, does not include the Ars forums' own Quisquis) will now be subjected to "group challenges that demonstrate their suitability to become one of the first humans on Mars, and will be interviewed," according to Mars One's website. The shape of those group challenges has not been clarified, but we don't expect much in the way of intensity, considering that a future selection round will contain the "first short-term training in a copy of the Mars outpost."

Whatever those challenges may be, they "could be aired" either on TV networks or online, which would finally fulfill the reality-TV angle that has long hovered over the project thanks to its founder Bas Lansdorp's ties to TV series Big Brother. As such, the roster of 100 contains some curious choices who seem better suited for reality TV than grueling outer-space missions, including squeaky-voiced Australian teen Teah, folk-loving "joke" teller Dan, and "wack" South African bushwhacker Edwin.

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Restoration Begins on NIST’s Million-Pound Deadweight Machine

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For the first time in half a century, NIST’s 4.45-million newton (equivalent to one million pounds-force) deadweight machine

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For the first time, spacecraft catch solar shockwave in the act: 'Ultrarelativistic, killer electrons made in 60 seconds

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On Oct. 8, 2013, an explosion on the sun's surface sent a supersonic blast wave of solar wind out into space. This shockwave tore past Mercury and Venus, blitzing by the moon before streaming toward Earth. The shockwave struck a massive blow to the Earth's magnetic field, setting off a magnetized sound pulse around the planet.

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Palomar 12

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Palomar 12 was not born here. The stars of the globular cluster, first identified in the Palomar Sky Survey, are younger than those in other globular star clusters that roam the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy. Palomar 12's position in our galaxy and measured motion suggest its home was once the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, a small satellite of the Milky Way. Disrupted by gravitational tides during close encounters the satellite galaxy has lost its stars to the larger Milky Way. Now part of the Milky Way's halo, the tidal capture of Palomar 12 likely took place some 1.7 billion years ago. Seen behind spiky foreground stars in the sharp Hubble image, Palomar 12 spans nearly 60 light-years. It lies about 60,000 light-years away, toward the constellation Capricornus. Tomorrow's picture: early evening skies

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Carina Nebula, Star Forming Gas-cloud Sculpture Rectangle Sticker

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Carina Nebula, Star Forming Gas-cloud Sculpture Rectangle Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A beautiful space photograph featuring the 7500 light year distant Carina Nebula. This Hubble image shows rich, interstellar gas clouds feeding the formation of new stars. As a proto star forms, the gas clouds get dragged to its surface and some gets emitted as tight jets of material travelling at hundreds of miles per second. These in turn help sculpt the gas clouds into weird and grotesque shapes, some looking like strange worms, swimming through space.

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

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Carina Nebula Hubble Space Wall Graphics

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Carina Nebula Hubble Space Wall Graphics

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Hubble telescope photograph of the Carina Nebula

This photo of the Carina Nebula was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is reminiscent of a sci-fi/fantasy illustration, and shows an enormous mountainous pillar of dust and gas in rich orange tones, against a starlit deep blue background.

Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

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Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Neb Powiscases iPad Mini Covers

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Thousands of stars are forming in the cloud of gas and dust known as the Orion nebula. More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. Credit: NASA,ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

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Mars hills hide icy past

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A complex network of isolated hills, ridges and small basins spanning 1400 km on Mars is thought to hide large quantities of water-ice.

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Microscopic Monitoring May Yield Big Advances in Production of Consumer Products & Pharmaceuticals

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A team of NYU physicists has developed a method to monitor the properties of microscopic particles as they

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Potassium Salt Outperforms Precious Metals As a Catalyst

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A team of Caltech chemists has discovered a method for producing a group of silicon-containing organic chemicals without

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Does dark matter cause mass extinctions and geologic upheavals?

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Research by New York University Biology Professor Michael Rampino concludes that Earth's infrequent but predictable path around and through our Galaxy's disc may have a direct and significant effect on geological and biological phenomena occurring on Earth. In a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, he concludes that movement through dark matter may perturb the orbits of comets and lead to additional heating in the Earth's core, both of which could be connected with mass extinction events.



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Name, The Swan, Constellation Cygnus space image Gift Wrapping Paper

Get your out-of-this-world gift wrap here! Perfect for Christmas gifts for anyone who is fascinated by what the universe holds in store for us!

Name, The Swan, Constellation Cygnus space image Gift Wrapping Paper

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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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