Exhibitions – An experiment in paper cups

Vitra

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SDO: Year 6 Ultra-HD

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SDO: Year 6 Ultra-HD

Solar Flare

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On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3.

Picuted here is a lighten blended version of the 304 and 171 angstrom wavelengths. Cropped

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Supermassive Black Hole in the Smallest Known Galaxy

March 4, 2016 0 comments

Supermassive Black Hole in the Smallest Known Galaxy

The Heart Nebula

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The Heart Nebula

The Milky Way

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This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents the Arches Cluster, the densest known star cluster in the Milky Way. It is located about 25 000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer), close to the heart of our galaxy, the Milky Way. It is, like its neighbour the Quintuplet Cluster, a fairly young astronomical object at between two and four million years old. The Arches cluster is so dense that in a region with a radius equal to the distance between the Sun and its nearest star there would be over 100 000 stars! At least 150 stars within the cluster are among the brightest ever discovered in the the Milky Way. These stars are so bright and massive, that they will burn their fuel within a short time, on a cosmological scale, just a few million years, and die in spectacular supernova explosions. Due to the short lifetime of the stars in the cluster, the gas between the stars contains an unusually high amount of heavier elements, which were produced by earlier generations of stars. Despite its brightness the Arches Cluster cannot be seen with the naked eye. The visible light from the cluster is completely obscured by gigantic clouds of dust in this region. To make the cluster visible astronomers have to use detectors which can collect light from the X-ray, infrared, and radio bands, as these wavelengths can pass through the dust clouds. This observation shows the Arches Cluster in the infrared and demonstrates the leap in Hubble’s performance since its 1999 image of same object.

Auschwitz 70th anniversary: Nazi concentration camp survivors, in pictures

March 4, 2016 0 comments

Auschwitz 70th anniversary: Nazi concentration camp survivors, in pictures

Barbara Doniecka

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Barbara Doniecka

Bogdan Bartnikowski

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Bogdan Bartnikowski

Henryk Duszyk

March 3, 2016 0 comments