NASA Amazing Views In Space: NGC 2903 and Omega Nebula as never seen before

NGC 2903 is a beautiful spiral galaxy. Yellowish stars are older, the spiral arms have younger stars that are blue and star forming regions have red-light emissions

Credit: Canada France Hawaii Telescope Coelum 

A colorful collection of 100,000 stars are displayed in this small region inside the Omega Centauri globular cluster, a dense group of nearly 10 million stars. Omega Centauri is one of the biggest star clusters in the Milky Way.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

Globular cluster Messier 70 experienced a cor collapse in the past meaning that even more stars squeeze into the object's core than usual. The brightness of the cluster increases steadily towards it\s center. Messier 70 orbits close to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, about 30,000 light years away from the solar system. 

Credit: ESA HUBBLE NASA

Mysteriously Bright Black Holes Revealed by NASA Telescope

Snapped a new view of two oddball black holes shining ultra-bright in X-ray light in a distant spiral galaxy. NASA’s NuSTAR X-ray observatory spotted the bright black holes while observing the galaxy Caldwell 5.

Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ DSSA NASA

Messier 83 of NGC 5236 located in the southern constellation Hydra. This is a beautiful photo of the central region taken by La Silla Observatory, Chile. About 15 million light-years away this spiral structure resembles that of the Milky Way Galaxy in which we live, but Messier 83 also has a bar like center.

Credit: ESO

Neat Light Casting Pic

IRAS 05437+2502, has a small star-forming region filled with dark dust that was first noted in images taken by IRAS satellite in infra-red light in 1983. This recently released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows many new details, but has not uncovered a clear cause of the bright sharp arc.

Credit: NASA ESA JPL

NGC 5189

The remains of a dying star are seem creating a dramatic work of art.

Credit: NASA ESA JPL



Stuck inside a cloud

A pre-stellar cloud found to contain water vapor in an amount 2000 times larger than all the earths oceans.

ESA's Herschel space observatory detected water vapor in a molecular cloud on the verge of star formation for the first time in this image of Lynds 1544, lower left. 450 Light-Years from earth lying in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, one of our nearest areas of mass star formation.

Credit: ESA HERSCHEL SPIRE

NGC 7008

Found by the Fera's at the Eagle Ridge Observatory California

NGC 1569

A Black hole is spotted in the middle of this cosmic storm.

Video How Linux is Built - Linux Distributors 2012

Short Video on how Linux is Built: for everyone

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There are many options for your linux distributor.

Some of these distros can come in 3d and others can be run by cd

or even off your keychain.

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Best Linux Desktop Distribution

Linux Mint 12   "Lisa"

 One of the most contended categories is for general desktop use. This year, the pick is back in the Ubuntu genus, though it's not something directly from Canonical.

Linux Mint is a downstream derivation of Ubuntu, which means that the code for Linux Mint is based on that found in Ubuntu. Linux Mint developers then add their own take to the distribution.

              Linux Mint Screenshots

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Best Linux Laptop Distribution

Ubuntu

 Not all laptops are the same, some laptops are taking cues from Apple Macbook Air line and are starting to conform to a sleeker aesthetic. Suited for the Linux distro with an interface that matches it: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Ubuntu has a superior laptop toolset, with excellent power management and drivers. Ubuntu's Unity interface is perfect for a mobile device that needs more streamlined usability.

As a laptop distribution, Ubuntu still reigns supreme.

                Ubuntu Screenshots

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Best Linux Enterprise Desktop

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.

Red Hat is  pushing into new territory within the virtualization and cloud spaces.

 It seems that the SUSE Enterprise Linux line is starting to fall behind for a minute.

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Best Linux LiveCD

KNOPPIX

 Really today every Linux distro is really a LiveCD that you can put a  physical CD or DVD into your optical drive, boot the system, and run a full Linux distribution without actually installing it.

One class of distros specializes in LiveCD only. These distributions offer users utilities and tools for repairing existing Linux and Windows installations. These distros are very useful to have regardless of what primary Linux distribution you like to use.

 Recommended KNOPPIX. This Debian based LiveCD uses a lightweight LXDE interface to
 deliver.

KNOPPIX  and Debian ScreenShots

Steve Jobs Digital Garden

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Known best as a visionary Steve Jobs amazed us with his innovation and devotion.

Our World today was grown in

Steve's Digital Garden.

He has been compared to some of the greatest minds in history like Galileo and Albert Einstein who have forever influenced our people and lifestyles.

Driven by opportunity and imagination Steve Jobs saw it possible what never was before at only 20 years old. An ambitious Steve Wonziak and Steve Jobs Co-Founded Apple Computers from their parents garage, they imagined our future to be as it is today.
This dynamic duo dreamed to take technology from laboratories to all people and all places.

Steve Jobs was best known for his Macintosh Computer and founding Apple in 1976. Since then Apple grew explosively with Steve's talent and imagination. In the 80's at 30 yrs old Apple's power struggle left Steve out of the company.

After Apple he was devastated, but nonetheless inspired. He moved on to start his new company Next and later developed Pixar Animation Studios. At Pixar he revolutionized our imaginations and dreams today. Later when Apple bought Next in 1996 Steve was back at Apple. He created artistic and powerful products and stores that no one had ever seen before. Impressive would be an understatement for a man so driven forth to change and move our worlds perceptions and aspirations. Simply said, Steve believed in possibilities.

Steve invented the first successful personal computer in 1977, the mac in 1984, the next computer 1985, the cube 2000, the iPod 2000, MacBook in 2006, the iPhone in 2007, and the iPad tablet. The iPad can be a TV, radio, camera, toy, cash register, notepad, book, or a million other things. To look at his early days, Steve was always reinventing what he had created. An innovator by nature Steve believed Apple's brightest days were ahead.

"People don't know what they want until you show it to them" - Steve Jobs

Steve invented 

the first successful 

personal computer (1977)

the mac (1984)

next computer (1985)

the cube (2000)

iPod (2001)

MacBook (2006)

So much of our world today was grown in

Steve's Digital Garden

Thanks Steve

JLC 

Amateur Scientists can now work with NASA and Keplar Data to Discover New Planets

NASA Kepler and Fermie Research

Exoplanets - NASA's search for other planets like earth, maybe even life. Making History is a first time opportunity for citizens to work with NASA and Kepler mission survey data. Aiding the search to find other planets like earth. This Opportunity is for looking a bit more fine-tuned into the mass of data from NASA's survey missions.

Your efforts are welcomed because of the overwhelming amount of data, and the fact that people are likely to discover planets that the technology used may sometimes overlook. Many discoveries have already happened, citizens scientists are welcomed to work with NASA and PlanetHunters.org

Astronomers now have some details of an exotic nearby alien planet.

The exoplanet, called 55 Cancri e, is 60 percent larger in diameter than Earth but eight times as massive, researchers revealed. That makes the alien world the densest solid planet known. NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope spotted light from the alien planet 55 Cancri e which orbits in a nearby solar system 41 light yrs away.

NASA pursuing space exploration and research makes history again. Until now scientists have never managed to detect the infrared light from the super-Earth world.

Spitzer program scientist Bill Danch of NASA headquarters in Washington in a statement "The spacecraft is pioneering the study of atmospheres of distant planets and paving the way for NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to apply a similar technique on
potentially habitable planets."

Spitzer first detected infrared light from an alien planet in 2005. But that world was a hot Jupiter a gas giant planet much larger than 55 Cancri e that orbited extremely close to its parent star. Spitzer's view of the 55 Cancri e is the first time the light from a rocky super-Earth type planet has been seen, researchers said. Since the discovery of 55 Cancri e, astronomers have pinned down increasingly strange features about the planet. The researchers already knew it was part of an alien solar system containing five exoplanets centered on the star 55 Cancri in the constellation Cancer (The Crab).



How to see our Universe through Gamma Rays 2012

NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope detected almost 500 sources of gamma ray emitting objects in its field of view. But the sources for more then 30% of them are completely unknown. Black holes and neutron stars emit gamma rays, the rest we've yet to imagine.

The Best Website Builders

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Moving fast in the web development space, Microsoft has introduced both a website building tool for neophytes and the third major version of its MVC (Model View Controller) technology.

Meteor Shower
Web Matrix is "a new tool to make it easier for people to build websites," said Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb, director of web platform and tools. Geared for students and new developers, WebMatrix is a text-based tool for writing code.
The free tool supports ASP.Net and PHP development. You can write applications like a Facebook Like button or a Twitter search capability, you can also start from the beginning and design your own.
http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/

Web Matrix however lacks more specialized capabilities of Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE, such as debugging. "People get started with WebMatrix, and when and if they're ready, they can begin using Visual Studio to take advantage of more advanced features," Goldfarb said.
Developers can start with an open source application, such as WordPress, Joomla or DotNetNuke, and use WebMatrix to download and configure these applications. Also, tools are provided for building a website, including a web server, database and framework.
http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform/tools-developer.aspx

Other recommended  Website Builders are

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NASA - Amazing Views In Space

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NGC 4038 and 4039
Amazing view of the Antennae Galaxies, taken by Alma radio telescope and Hubble space telescope.

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Galaxy IC342
Also called the hidden galaxy, this spiral beauty is often hidden behind the Milky Way. New stars burst and form here about 10 million light years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. It's 62000 light years across. Beautiful

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Soul Nebulas Heart Caught on Camera
NASA released this mosaic of the Soul Nebula. It is an open cluster of stars surrounded by dust and gas over 150 light years across and 6500 light years from Earth. In the constellation Cassiopeia.

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Many well known objects can be seen in and near the violent Carina Nebula in this wide field image. In the bottom left is one of the  most impressive binary stars in the universe,
Eta Carinae, with the fameous keyhole Nebula just adjacent. The collection of bright young stars to the right is open star cluster Trumpler14.

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The new Hubble image of the Orion Nebula shows dense pillars of gas and dust that are likely home to young stars. 

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The Hubble Space Telescope has caught the most detailed view of the Crab nebula. This is one of the largest images ever assembled by the space based observatory.  

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This Picture of NGC 6334 or Cats Paw Nebula was created with the wide field imager instrument a La Silla Observatory in Chile.

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Milky Way Imaging, Our Galaxies City Center

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To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers pointed Hubble's eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273

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The infrared vision of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that the Sombrero galaxy is in fact two galaxies in one. It is a large elliptical galaxy (blue-green) with a thin disk galaxy (partly seen in red) embedded within.

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Globular cluster Messier 70 experienced a core collapse in the past, meaning that even more stars squeeze into the object's core than on average. The brightness of the cluster increases steadily towards its center. Messier 70 orbits close to the center of the Milky Way, about 30 000 light-years away from the Solar System. Image released April 13, 2012.

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Supernova 1987A occured in the Large Magellanic Cloud a galaxy only 160,000 lights years from Earth. The Brightest know SuperNova in 400 years.

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The Hubble Space Telescope captures

The Hubble Space Telescopes striking image of curious panetary Nebula NGC 6210, which is located about 6500 light years from the constellation Hercules. Last Breath of a Dying Star.

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         Monday april 9 2012: Planetary Nebula Abell 33 lies in the constellation of Hydra.

          Abell 383 has such heavy gravitational distortion that it may actually mirrior images in or around it. Distant Galaxies seen by Hubble and NASA.

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