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Image: Stellar Nursery in the Rosette Nebula

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory shows the cloud associated with the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the Monoceros, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 0

Zinc oxide gives green shine to new photoconductors

Photodetectors -- devices found in cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer gadgets that utilize photoconducting materials -- are a green technology in performance (converting light into electricity), but the manufacture ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0




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Raging storms sweep away galactic gas

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has detected raging winds of molecular gas streaming away from galaxies. Suspected for years, these outflows may have the power to strip galaxies ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Tuning the collective properties of artificial nanoparticle supercrystals

Precise ordering in two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) superlattices formed by the self-assembly of individual nanocrystals (NCs) allows for control of the magnetic, optical, and electronic ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Baby stars in the Rosette cloud

Herschel's latest image reveals the formation of previously unseen large stars, each one up to ten times the mass of our Sun. These are the stars that will influence where and how the next generation of stars ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Madly Mapping the Universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes special software to map the universe from noisy data. A Berkeley Lab code called MADmap does just that for the cosmic microwave background and has now been adapted by scientists probing ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Herschel Opens Its Infrared Eyes

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Herschel Space Observatory has snapped its first picture since blasting into space on May 14, 2009. The mission, led by the European Space Agency with important participation from NASA, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Herschel's daring test: A glimpse of things to come

Herschel opened its 'eyes' on 14 June and the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer obtained images of M51, 'the whirlpool galaxy' for a first test observation. Scientists obtained images in three colours ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 2

New superlattice structure enables high performance infrared imaging

Scientists at the Center for Quantum Devices (CQD) in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University have demonstrated for the first time a high-performance infrared imager, based on a Type II superlattice, ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 28, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 2

3-D photonic crystals will revolutionize telecommunications

Smaller, faster, more efficient: BASF research scientists are helping to revolutionize the future world of telecommunications – with the aid of three-dimensional photonic crystals.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 20, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (32) | comments 0

Tiny porphyrin tubes developed by Sandia may lead to new nanodevices

Research could result in clean, inexpensive hydrogen fuel Sunlight splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen using devices too small to be seen in a standard microscope. That's a goal of a research team from the Nationa ...

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