Water in smog may reveal pollution sources

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The chemical signature of water vapor emitted by combustion sources such as vehicles and furnaces has been found

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SLAC particle accelerator facility finds new ways to be cutting edge

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What do you do with the longest building in the world once it's fulfilled the purpose you've built it for? In the case of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, you find other ways of getting useful work out of it and the hardware it contains.

The main accelerator at SLAC was built to characterize the W and Z bosons, discovered earlier at CERN. By colliding electrons and their antiparticles (positrons) at a carefully chosen energy, SLAC produced these bosons in large numbers, allowing their detailed characterization. (The same approach is being planned for studying the Higgs Boson.)

SLAC has since been reinventing the giant accelerator. And the center itself has also diversified away from its roots as an accelerator facility, as we got to see in a recent visit.

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Improved fire detection with new ultra-sensitive, ultraviolet light sensor

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Researchers at the University of Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute manipulated zinc oxide, producing nanowires from this readily available

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A Total Eclipse at the End of the World

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Eagle Nebula, Messier 16 - Pillars of Creation Wall Skins

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A breathtaking outer space picture showing a spectacular three-colour composite mosaic image of the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16, or NGC 6611). It's based on images obtained with the Wide-Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory.

At the centre, the so-called “Pillars of Creation” can be seen and this wide-field image shows not only the central pillars, but also several others in the same star-forming region, as well as a huge number of stars in front of, in, or behind the Eagle Nebula.

The cluster of bright stars to the upper right is NGC 6611, home to the massive and hot stars that illuminate the pillars. The “Spire” - another large pillar - is in the middle left of the image.

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Large Magellanic Cloud Superbubble in Nebula N44 Wall Decal

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series An awesome photograph from deep space featuring a super bubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is a small satellite of our Milky Way galaxy around 160000 light years from us.
The massive stars of this nebula produce intense radiation, expelling matter at high speeds, and race through their main stage finally to explode as supernovas. The stellar winds of charged hydrogen and other particles and the supernova shock waves carve out huge cavities called superbubbles in the surrounding gas. Blue shows hot regions created by these winds and shocks, while red shows where the dust and cooler gas are found. Yellow regions show where ultraviolet radiation from hot, young stars is causing gas in the nebula to glow.

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This is a Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the star forming region NGC 346. This is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, about 210,000 light years from Earth. In this image, the gas clouds have a pink and purple appearance, and are studded with many sparkling stars.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Nota (ESA/STScI, STScI/AURA)

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The Hubble Space Telescope is released iPad Mini Cases

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Using electrospun nanofibers to counter NOx emission from heavy shipping

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Maritime shipping carries about 90 percent of global trade. The ever increasing demand for global trade has led

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Takyuddin and other astronomers print

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Turkish School's FY 1404 Takyuddin and other astronomers at the Galata observatory founded in 1557 by Sultan Suleyman, from the Sehinsahname of Murad III, c.1581 located at the Istanbul University Library, Istanbul, Turkey. The FY 1404 Takyuddin and other astronomers at the Galata observatory founded in 1557 by Sultan Suleyman, from the Sehinsahname of Murad III, c.1581 was created around the 16th century.

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Relax on Kepler 16b vacation advert space tourism Wrapping Paper

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A wonderful, retro-style advert in an art-nouveau tradition. Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren't good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice. But the discovery indicates that double-sunsets are anything but science fiction.
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Merging Galaxies - The Antennae Galaxies Star Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A stunning outer space picture featuring two merging galaxies, known as the Antennae Galaxies - NGC4038 and NGC4039. As these galaxies hurtle through each other, billions of new stars are forced to precipitate out of the gas and dust clouds by the bunching and heating that's caused by the massive gravitic interactions. These tend to occur in clusters, the brightest and most condensed of them being known as super star clusters.

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