Sunday, November 30, 2014
The Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud
It may look like a grazing seahorse, but the dark object toward the image right is actually a pillar of smoky dust about 20 light years long. The curiously-shaped dust structure occurs in our neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud, in a star forming region very near the expansive Tarantula Nebula. The energetic nebula is creating a star cluster, NGC 2074, whose center is visible just off the top of the image in the direction of the neck of the seahorse. The representative color image was taken in 2008 by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in honor of Hubble's 100,000th trip around the Earth. As young stars in the cluster form, their light and winds will slowly erode the dust pillars away over the next million years. via NASA http://ift.tt/1w9gQi8
Gold, Swiss Franc Fall After Swiss Referendum
By REUTERS from NYT Business Day http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/11/30/business/30reuters-markets-global.html
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Opaque Justice in China
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW from NYT Arts http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/arts/television/katie-leung-stars-in-one-child-by-guy-hibbert.html
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German Utility Company E.ON to Focus on Renewables
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Business Day http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/11/30/business/ap-eu-germany-eon.html
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Puerto Rico Braces for Public Transport Shutdown
By REUTERS from NYT Business Day http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/11/30/business/30reuters-usa-puertorico.html
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E.ON to Split in Two in Major Group Restructuring
By REUTERS from NYT Business Day http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/11/30/business/30reuters-e-on-divestiture.html
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Texas Towns Test Oil and Gas Supremacy on Fracking
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT U.S. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/11/30/us/ap-us-fracking-texas.html
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Iraq Says Failing Oil Prices Force Rethink of 2015 Budget
By REUTERS from NYT Business Day http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/11/30/business/30reuters-iraq-budget-oil.html
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Police Say Canadian Man in Saudi Arabia Stabbed
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/11/30/world/middleeast/ap-ml-saudi-arabia.html
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Russia Hopes Oil-For-Goods Deal With Iran Can Be Sealed Soon-Russian News Agencies
By REUTERS from NYT Business Day http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/11/30/business/30reuters-russia-iran.html
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Thousands Rally in Moscow Against Health Care Cuts
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/11/30/world/europe/ap-eu-russia-rebel-doctors.html
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Sudan to Develop, Import Gas for Power Generation-Bashir
By REUTERS from NYT World http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/11/30/world/africa/30reuters-sudan-gas.html
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Energy Efficiency May Be the Key to Saving Trillions
By BETH GARDINER from NYT Business Day http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/business/energy-environment/energy-efficiency-may-be-the-key-to-saving-trillions.html
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Solar as Industrial Revolution
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP from NYT Business Day http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/business/energy-environment/li-hejun-chairman-of-hanergy-holding-group-on-the-energy-source.html
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Family of Thai Princess Is Stripped of Royal Name
By THOMAS FULLER from NYT World http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/world/asia/family-of-thai-princess-srirasm-is-stripped-of-royal-name.html
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Iran: OPEC Decision Not Good for All Members but Won't Protest
By REUTERS from NYT Business Day http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/11/30/business/30reuters-iran-oil-opec.html
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Xi Tones Down Foreign Policy Rhetoric
By REUTERS from NYT Business Day http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/business/international/chinas-xi-jinping-tones-down-foreign-policy-rhetoric.html
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QE or Not QE? Spotlight on the ECB as Inflation Dips
By REUTERS from NYT Business Day http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/11/30/business/30reuters-global-economy-weekahead.html
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Qatar: US Couple Absolved in Child's Death
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/11/30/world/middleeast/ap-ml-qatar-adoption-case.html
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China's Xi Strikes Conciliatory Note, Broadens Diplomatic Focus
By REUTERS from NYT World http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/11/30/world/asia/30reuters-china-southchinasea.html
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Saturday, November 29, 2014
Corrections: November 30, 2014
By Unknown Author from NYT Corrections http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/pageoneplus/corrections-november-30-2014.html
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3D 67P
Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to a comet! The Rosetta mission lander Philae's ROLIS camera snapped the two frames used to create this stereo anaglyph for 3D viewing during its November 12 descent to the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The comet's curious double lobed nucleus is seen nearly end on from a distance of about 3 kilometers, about 1 hour before Philae arrived at the surface. Philae's initial landing site is near the center of the front facing lobe. Part of a landing gear foot cuts across the upper right corner, in the close foreground of the 3D-view. Philae bounced twice in the comet's weak gravity after its first contact with the surface. Using high resolution camera images from the Rosetta orbiter along with data from the lander's instruments, controllers have followed Philae's impromptu journey over the comet's surface and have identified a likely area for its final resting place. via NASA http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap141129.html
End of Texas School’s Book Ban Doesn’t Mark the Last Chapter
By MORGAN SMITH from NYT U.S. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/us/end-of-schools-book-ban-doesnt-mark-the-last-chapter.html
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As Mexico Addresses Climate Change, Critics Point to Shortcomings
By VICTORIA BURNETT from NYT World http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/world/americas/as-mexico-addresses-climate-change-critics-point-to-shortcomings-.html
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Oil Drills and Spills
By Unknown Author from NYT Opinion http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/oil-drills-and-spills.html
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Friday, November 28, 2014
Portrait of NGC 281
Look through the cosmic cloud cataloged as NGC 281 and you might miss the stars of open cluster IC 1590. But, formed within the nebula, that cluster's young, massive stars ultimately power the pervasive nebular glow. The eye-catching shapes looming in this portrait of NGC 281 are sculpted columns and dense dust globules seen in silhouette, eroded by intense, energetic winds and radiation from the hot cluster stars. If they survive long enough, the dusty structures could also be sites of future star formation. Playfully called the Pacman Nebula because of its overall shape, NGC 281 is about 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. This sharp composite image was made through narrow-band filters, combining emission from the nebula's hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen atoms in green, red, and blue hues. It spans over 80 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 281. via NASA http://ift.tt/1zBXmQP
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Galileo s Europa Remastered
Looping through the Jovian system in the late 1990s, the Galileo spacecraft recorded stunning views of Europa and uncovered evidence that the moon's icy surface likely hides a deep, global ocean. Galileo's Europa image data has been newly remastered here, using improved new calibrations to produce a color image approximating what the human eye might see. Europa's long curving fractures hint at the subsurface liquid water. The tidal flexing the large moon experiences in its elliptical orbit around Jupiter supplies the energy to keep the ocean liquid. But more tantalizing is the possibility that even in the absence of sunlight that process could also supply the energy to support life, making Europa one of the best places to look for life beyond Earth. What kind of life could thrive in a deep, dark, subsurface ocean? Consider planet Earth's own extreme shrimp. via NASA http://ift.tt/1vnilHS
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