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Black Hole ‘Bonanza’: Millions Found by NASA Space Telescope

A jackpot of previously unknown black holes across the universe has been discovered by the infrared eyes of a prolific NASA sky-mapping telescope.

The cosmic find comes from data collected by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey (WISE) telescope, which scanned the entire sky in infrared light from December 2009 to February 2011. The full catalog of observations by WISE during its mission was publicly released in March, and astronomers are still poring through this celestrial trove for discoveries.

“WISE has found a bonanza of black holes in the universe,” astronomer Daniel Stern of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., said during a news briefing today (Aug. 29). WISE turned up about three times as many black holes as have been found by comparable surveys in visible light, offering up a total of 2.5 million new sources across the sky.

buttonmeupbuttons:

SCIENCE!!! Here are some buttons for all you science lovers. I was a bio major in college and I’m still a big science geek. ;) I tried to get creative with the hearts, it was difficult but fun.

The biology button has a strand of DNA for the “I” a diagram of blood flow in the heart, and paramecium spelling out “biology”.

The chemistry one is pretty self explanatory, I used the chemical symbols to spell “love” (well, luv anyway).

The formula under the graph on the math button actually will make that heart shape on graph. I got the formula from here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HeartCurve.html

The physics button has the equation equation for the gravitational force between two objects (attraction, get it?)

The biochemistry button has an oxytocin molecule, the “love hormone”.

For the astronomy one I drew the heart nebula, which is a real nebula located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. Space stuff is really hard to draw. D:

Send me a note if you’d like to buy one. :)

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biocanvas:

Saccharin, an artificial sweetener, that has been recrystallized.

Image by Stefan Eberhard, University of Georgia.

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subatomiconsciousness:

Particle Physics by Rob Colvin, Morgan

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experimentsinmotion:

America’s wind flow patterns mapped

Wind is an invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future.

holymoleculesbatman:

Meissner Effect