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Weird Science Cool Pic of the Week

By Daniel Smith on Nov 27, 09 12:00 PM

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NASA has just released this spectacular image of the crab nebula.

X-ray data from the Chandra satellite has provided significant clues to the workings of this mighty cosmic 'generator,' which is producing energy at the rate of 100,000 Suns.

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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.

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