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• What are some different careers in the fashion industry?

  
  Jobs at home - Legit work — Authority: 150
  While I have many other interests in life (particularly literature, social sciences, and astrophysics), I live, breath and eat fashion. Fashion is something I would consider being involved with for my whole life, but I don’t know where I should start. In fashion, other than being a model or designer (adore that ...
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• Galactic meal appears to take Millions of years to digest – Examiner.com

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 161
  Science CentricGalactic meal appears to take Millions of years to digestExaminer.com… and how gas clouds assist in the formation of new stars. For more information about this research head over to the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal.Watching a cannibal galaxy dineScienceBlog.com (blog)Watching a Cannibal Galaxy ...
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• NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Detects High-energy Gamma-rays From Cygnus X-3

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive star with a compact object — either a neutron star or a black hole — that blasts twin radio-emitting jets of matter into ...
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• Aktive Giant HD 12545 (XX Triangulum)

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 640
  Stars are sometimes also very asymmetrical inside; Pictures of the star HD 12545; (XX Triangulum) made by K. G. Strassmeier (University of Vienna) show the same phenomenon which we observe on the pictures of Uranus. It is a gas ball warmed from the inside by an asymmetrical heat source.
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• 24 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 107
  Origin Anniversary, Radio Brains, Rampaging Robot Vampires Need Lawyers Too, Life Mutations and Electricity, RNA Warmth, Biophotonic Communication, Life as a Carrot, Kiki Rants, TWi the End of the World, And Much, Much More!
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• The Beautiful Universe

  
  Red Tory v.3.0 — Authority: 480
  Wonderful images of our local galaxy courtesy of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the Smithsonian’s Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA. The Chandra Observatory is a telescope linked to an orbiting space satellite that’s specially designed to detect X-ray emissions from very “hot” regions of the ...
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• Splitting Time from Space--New Quantum Theory Topples Einsteins Spacetime

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Was Newton right and Einstein wrong? It seems that unzipping the fabric of spacetime and harking back to 19th-century notions of time could lead to a theory of quantum gravity. Physicists have struggled to marry quantum mechanics with gravity for decades. In contrast, the other forces of nature have obediently fallen ...
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• Learn Some Basic Astrophysics

  
  Astrocast.TV — Authority: 134
  If you have a hankering to learn some basic astrophysics, you may be interested in taking a look at a paper that was made available today, online now here , based upon a lecture given at a special summer school on nuclear astrophysics in Italy this past summer. Dr. Christian Iliadis of the University of North ...
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• Looking for planets? Its all about the lithium!

  
  Supernova Condensate — Authority: 415
  I have a lot of respect for planet hunters. Its not an easy job. Discovering and confirming the existence of a planet requires a lot of patience, and Id imagine it must be frustrating at times. So Im sure a few planet hunters are rejoicing at the news that knowing which stars to look at just became a lot easier. All ...
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• Lightning Holds Fingerprint of Antimatter

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 637
  Positrons, the antimatter equivalent to electrons, were detected in gamma ray bursts during lightning storms.
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• Watching a Cannibal Galaxy Dine

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 553
  This image of the central parts of Centaurus A reveals the parallelogram-shaped remains of a smaller galaxy that was gulped down about 200 to 700 million years ago.A new technique using near-infrared images, obtained with ESO’s 3.58-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT), allows astronomers to see through the opaque ...
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• A Universe of Marshmallows

  
  Supernova Condensate — Authority: 415
  I fear that even contemplating writing the tirade of geekery thats about to ensue might forever concrete my reputation as a mad scientist. Although I dont really have a reputation as a mad scientist. Yet. This started out as a slightly bizarre twitter conversation with @ Stellar190 and @ PenguinGalaxy . About ...
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• Dry winds to stoke O.C. wildfire danger

  
  Sciencedude — Authority: 128
  DARK ... FOR NOW: Scott ODonnell of Yorba Linda photographed the thick marine layer above Orange County today. The clouds are spitting some rain, but significant precipitation is not expected. The photo was taken southbound on the 5, near the intersection with the 405. There are isolated sprinkles this morning from ...
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• Professor Sam Okoye, Top Nigerian Scientist, Dies in London

  
  Thy Glory O Nigeria..! — Authority: 124
  (original story in www.saharareporters.com) It is good to celebrate great Nigerians like Prof Sam Okoye and to use people like him to project the good sides about Nigeria. It is so very unfortunate that our Politicians ruined our country and they ruined the lives of many to this day. Original post from ...
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• Circulation of LHC Beams Could Resume in Earnest over the Weekend

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  The Large Hadron Collider , the worlds most powerful particle accelerator, is drawing near to its long-awaited reboot. More than a year after the European colliders initial start-up was quashed by a helium leak caused by a faulty electrical connection , particle beams have been injected into the collider, known as ...
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• Novel Nova: Stellar Blast Powered by Helium May Leave a Tantalizing Remnant

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  A stellar explosion known as a nova that was detected in 2000 formed a two-lobed shell of material ejected from the star. Shaped like a bow tie, it continues to swell at great velocity. But, curiously, the coat of ejecta flowing outward from the star lacks hydrogen, the most common gas in the universe. [More]
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• 30 Breathtaking Fantasy and Space Artworks by Inga Nielsen

  
  Presidia Creative — Authority: 486
  Inga Nielsen is a digital artist and physics student from Hamburg, Germany.  Aside from studying astrophysics and geophysics, she is also a masterful digital artist and prolific writer.  She works frequently with Terragen, combined with digital painting to create some of the most stunning landscapes you’ll find.  ...
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• Watching a cannibal galaxy dine

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 640
  Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is the nearest giant, elliptical galaxy, at a distance of about 11 million light-years. One of the most studied objects in the southern sky, by 1847 the unique appearance of this galaxy had already caught the attention of the famous British astronomer John Herschel, who catalogued the southern ...
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• A chill stellar wind...

  
  Supernova Condensate — Authority: 415
  Thermodynamics may be very good at putting freshers to sleep during Monday morning lectures, but it really is a fundamental piece of modern physics. Bluntly, you dont argue with thermodynamics. Originally developed to increase the efficiency of steam engines, the laws of how energy is transferred between work and heat ...
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