Microdomains set the stage for breakthroughs in study of human disease

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J. Andrew MacKay knows that the next big step to understanding and treating disease starts on an extremely

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The 100 Nearest Star Systems Poster

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The 100 Nearest Star Systems Poster

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A schematic representation of the nearest 100 star systems. Stellar data provided by RECONS. Resolution 7200x7200. (I don't know why it looks fuzzy in the zoom preview. The original image is very clear.)

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Carbon nanotubes grown in combustion flames

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An international research team’s theoretical simulation of the synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes has revealed important details of the mechanisms at play. This could lead to better ways to control the production of carbon nanotubes.
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Monogram Carina Nebula - Breathtaking Universe Oval Sticker

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Monogram Carina Nebula - Breathtaking Universe Oval Sticker

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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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Zany Dancers and Blue spot Alien - Happy Birthday! Gift Wrap

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Zany Dancers and Blue spot Alien - Happy Birthday! Gift Wrap

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Just Fun series Fun birthday wrapping paper featuring bright, zany, exuberant dancers in a variety of colourful poses to brighten the mood :) With a blue-spotted alien with droopy antennae, you can change the text from Happy Birthday to what you want - even the person's name.
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Messier Craters in Stereo

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Many bright nebulae and star clusters in planet Earth's sky are associated with the name of astronomer Charles Messier, from his famous 18th century catalog. His name is also given to these two large and remarkable craters on the Moon. Standouts in the dark, smooth lunar Sea of Fertility or Mare Fecunditatis, Messier (left) and Messier A have dimensions of 15 by 8 and 16 by 11 kilometers respectively. Their elongated shapes are explained by an extremely shallow-angle trajectory followed by the impactor, moving left to right, that gouged out the craters. The shallow impact also resulted in two bright rays of material extending along the surface to the right, beyond the picture. Intended to be viewed with red/blue glasses (red for the left eye), this striking stereo picture of the crater pair was recently created from high resolution scans of two images (AS11-42-6304, AS11-42-6305) taken during the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

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Hubble's Sharpest View of .. DODO iPad Folio Case

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Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula. 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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Gauging materials’ physical properties from video

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Last summer, MIT researchers published a paper describing an algorithm that can recover intelligible speech from the analysis

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Monogrammed Helix Nebula, Galaxies and Stars Oval Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A fantastic colour-composite image of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293). It was created from images obtained using the Wide Field Imager (WFI), an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2-metre Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope at the La Silla observatory in Chile.

The blue-green glow in the centre of the Helix comes from oxygen atoms shining under effects of the intense ultraviolet radiation of the 120 000 degree Celsius central star and the hot gas.

Further out from the star and beyond the ring of knots, the red colour from hydrogen and nitrogen is more prominent. A careful look at the central part of this object reveals not only the knots, but also many remote galaxies seen right through the thinly spread glowing gas.
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Purple Galaxy Cluster iPad Mini Covers

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Purple Galaxy Cluster iPad Mini Covers

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Galaxy Cluster MACS J0717 thanks to NASA and Hubble program.

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