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Feed Extreme Star Birth In The Carina Nebula To Celebrate Hubble's 17th Anniversary (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Tuesday April 24, 2007 @10:13AM

One of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's cameras has been released to celebrate the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image shows a 50 light-year-wide view of the tumultuous central region of the Carina Nebula where a maelstrom of star birth -- and death -- is taking place.

Submission + - Finnish politician communicates in Klingon

Submitted by

Fizzl

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @09:16AM

Fizzl writes: "
A Finnish member of parliament is aiming for re-election by campaigning with a translation of his Web site into Klingon, used in the TV series Star Trek.
Here are some links to the stories: CNN, Reuters and The Geek Beat.
And of course, the page in Klingon itself."

Submission + - Australian MacBook bursts into flames

Submitted by

Currawong

on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @04:03AM

Currawong writes: "MacTalk Australia reports that one of its users has had their MacBook burst into flames, awaking in the middle of the night to find the MacBook, along with some magazines adjacent to where the MacBook was sitting, alight. His housemate stated that, "she heard it hissing like a steam valve, then smoke started pouring out of it and a couple of seconds later, a very large flash fire started." The owner stated that available charge in the battery of the 11 month old MacBook had become suddenly poor in the 3 weeks leading up to the fire, the day of the fire almost completely failing to work properly at all. Apple last year issued a recall of over 1 million batteries after issues with Sony manufactured batteries caught fire in Dell laptops. Since contacting Apple Australia, they have offered to replace the MacBook with a MacBook Pro and possibly compensate the owner for the damage caused, once they have determined the cause of the fire."

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