There are advances being made almost daily in the disciplines required to make space and its contents accessible. This blog brings together a lot of that info, as it is reported, tracking the small steps into space that will make it just another place we carry out normal human economic, leisure and living activities.
Friday, 24 July 2015
NASA Unveils New Pluto Photographs
NASA released more photos taken by the New Horizons spacecraft on its flyby of Pluto, showing the dwarf planet in color and at a higher resolution.
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Nanospheres Safely Deliver High Chemotherapy Doses in Response to Tumor Secretions
Scientists have designed nanoparticles that release drugs in the presence of a class of proteins that enable cancers
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Vintage Astronomy, Map of Christian Constellations Poster
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Vintage illustration Renaissance era astronomy and celestial image featuring an antique star chart of the sky, Map of the Christian Constellations of the northern skies as depicted by Julius Schiller (c. 1580-1627), from The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe by Andreas Cellarius. Andreas Cellarius (c.1596-1665) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.
Julius Schiller was a lawyer from Augsburg, Germany, who like his fellow citizen and colleague Johann Bayer published a star atlas in celestial cartography.
In the year of his death, Schiller, with Bayer's assistance, published the star atlas Coelum Stellatum Christianum which replaced pagan constellations with biblical and early Christian figures. Specifically, Schiller replaced the zodiacal constellations with the twelve apostles, the northern constellations by figures from the New Testament and the southern constellations by figures from the Old Testament.
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A Bridge to Better Batteries
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original post »A major automaker came to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently wanting to better understand battery degradation. After many
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Red Supergiant Star V838 Monocerotis Square Sticker
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous astronomy picture featuring a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis, in the direction of the constellation of Monoceros on the outer edge of our Milky Way. The image shows the swirls of dust spiralling across trillions of miles of interstellar space, lit mainly from within by a pulse of light from the red supergiant, two years into its journey.
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Image credit: NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) and ESA
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Ultraviolet Rings of M31
A mere 2.5 million light-years away the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, really is just next door as large galaxies go. So close and spanning some 260,000 light-years, it took 11 different image fields from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite's telescope to produce this gorgeous portrait of the spiral galaxy in ultraviolet light. While its spiral arms stand out in visible light images of Andromeda, the arms look more like rings in the GALEX ultraviolet view, a view dominated by the energetic light from hot, young, massive stars. As sites of intense star formation, the rings have been interpreted as evidence Andromeda collided with its smaller neighboring elliptical galaxy M32 more than 200 million years ago. The large Andromeda galaxy and our own Milky Way are the most massive members of the local galaxy group.
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Star GL 490 Green Cluster Space Wall Decor
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This is a NASA space photograph from the GLIMPSE360 survey, showing the star GL 490 (the bright orange star in the centre-right of the photo) and its surroundings. The cloudy green gaseous area is the result of hydrogen and carbon compounds that are used in the formation of new stars. This is a composite image that uses data from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS).
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/2MASS/B. Whitney (SSI/University of Wisconsin)
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Orion Nebula Cover For iPad Mini
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A lovely image of the Orion Nebula thanks to NASA/Hubble Space Telescope.
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Scientists propose 3D graphene-like 'hyper-honeycomb' structures
(Phys.org)—Scientists have proposed a new family of structures that are three-dimensional (3D) variations of graphene, the simplest example of which is called a "hyper-honeycomb." If the proposed structures can be experimentally realized, the new ways to arrange carbon atoms would add to the ever-growing number of new carbon allotropes. The scientists also predict that, among its interesting properties, the hyper-honeycomb could potentially be even more stable than diamond.
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Nanoscale light-emitting device has big profile
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object
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Lab synthesizes new cancer-killing compound
Rice University scientists have achieved the total synthesis of a scarce natural marine product that may become a
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Vintage Astronomy, Hydra Snake Constellation Stars Poster
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Vintage illustration astronomy and antique celestial constellation Hydra the snake. Hydra is the largest of the 88 modern constellations, measuring 1303 square degrees. It has a long history, having been included among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy. It is commonly represented as a water snake.
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Tarantula Nebula Star Forming Gas Cloud Sculpture Rectangular Sticker
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series An awesome mobile phone shell featuring the Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way, our galactic home. This Hubble image shows old stars from the distant past and rich, interstellar gas clouds feeding the formation of new ones. The most massive and hottest stars are intense, high-energy radiation sources and this pushes away what remains of the gas and dust, compressing and sculpting it. As the whorls and eddies clump and stretch it, gravity takes over and the birth of the next generation of new stars is triggered.
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Pink Star Cluster Pacman Nebula Wall Decor
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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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Mystic Mountain - Carina Nebula iPad Folio Case
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A mountain of dust and gas rise in the Carina Nebula, captured by NASA's Hubble telescope.
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Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScl)
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