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Saturn and its moons

Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898-1979) First woman to receive a PhD in physics from Cambridge University and inventor of "invisible" (low-reflectance) glass

New map of Shackleton crater false-coloured to emphasise height (Image: NASA/M. T. Zuber and colleagues, Nature, 2012)

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This artist's concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Atop a barge on Wednesday, June 6, 2012, the space shuttle Enterprise was towed on the Hudson River past the Statue of Liberty on its way to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, where it will be permanently displayed. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

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Project Mercury astronauts at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia: (top, left to right) Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper; (bottom left to right) Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn and Scott Carpenter. Ralph Morse—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Read more: http://life.time.com/history/magnificent-seven-nasas-mercury-astronauts/#ixzz1vsCsEDNm

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Expedition 30 Soyuz TMA-03M by NASA & Carla Cioffi

Nasa's Kepler Telescope has detected 1,235 possible extra-solar planets.

Photo credit: Nasa

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Snapshot of an imploding circular water wave with four cylindrical obstacles in its path

Image credit: A. Shchetinina & H.D. Ng (Concordia University, Montréal, Canada)

#circular wave #physics

Pierre and Marie Curie in their laboratory, circa 1906.

#physics #Marie Curie

This image shows the Optical Telescope Element Simulator, or OSIM, wrapped in a silver blanket on a platform, being lowered into the Space Environment Simulator vacuum chamber via crane to be tested to withstand the cold temperatures of space. Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

#NASA #telescope #physics

The ALICE Detector

Photograph: Saba, Antonio

#ALICE #physics

CryoSat reveals first map of Arctic ice thickness

image: Wired http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/22/cryosat-reveals-first-map-of-arctic-ice-thickness

#arctic thickness #physics

From CERN, neutrinos travel through around 732 kilometers of Earth, until they arrive at the OPERA detector, buried beneath the Italian mountain of Gran Sasso

#physics #CERN

Moscow at Night Moscow appears at the center of this nighttime image photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station, flying at an altitude of approximately 240 miles on March 28, 2012. A solar array panel for the space station is on the left side of the frame. The view is to the north-northwest from a nadir of approximately 49.4 degrees north latitude and 42.1 degrees east longitude, about 100 miles west-northwest of Volgograd. The Aurora Borealis, airglow and daybreak frame the horizon. Image Credit: NASA

#Moscow at night #physics #NASA

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Complete time-lapse video of the Sun, spanning the entire months of September, October and November 2011 as seen through the SWAP ultraviolet instrument onboard the European Space Agency spacecraft Proba-2.

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Hubble Spies a Spiral Galaxy Edge-on

Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

#NASA #Hubble #Glaxy #physics

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