Space Photo Saturday! Since it launched in 1977, 

Voyager 1 has traveled more than 11 billion miles at 

39,000 miles-per-hour through space. LEARN 

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This jacket was made by a company called BioCouture, using a symbiotic mix of yeast and bacteria. These living creatures produce bacterial cellulose, which is kind of like a vegetable leather. The clothing is 100% compostable, which means when you're done with it, you can throw it on the compost heap and it'll release nutrients into the soil just like your vegetable scraps.

A new species of stripy reef fish has been found in the southern Red Sea in Africa. Described by an Australian scientist, it was named by school students at a science expo in Sydney. The genus was named Gymnoxenisthmus, which means 'naked', because the fish has no gills, and the species name is tigrellus, which means 'little tiger'.

Known as 'frozen smoke', aerogel is made by extracting the liquid component of alumina, chromia, tin oxide, or carbon gels through supercritical drying. Around 99.8% of aerogel is just empty space, but this incredible material can singlehandedly shield you from a flamethrower attack.

Taken by Hinode on Jan 12 2007 this image reveals the filamentary nature of the corona.

Filament erupting during a solar flare, seen at EUV wavelengths (TRACE).

On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the Sun's atmosphere, the Corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT

TRACE 171Å coronal loops.

During a total solar eclipse, the solar corona can be seen by the naked eye.

Montage of Jupiter's four Galilean moons, in a composite image comparing their sizes and the size of Jupiter. From top to bottom: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto.

The Voyager spacecraft.

Titan in natural color. The thick atmosphere is orange due to a dense organonitrogen haze.

Titan in false color showing surface details and atmosphere with Xanadu in the bright region at the center-right.

Hubble Space Telescope image of a small region of the Crab Nebula, showing Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities in its intricate filamentary structure. Credit: NASA/ESA.

The Crab Nebula seen in infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope.

Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer image NGC 1952.

Plutonium pyrophoricity can cause it to look like a glowing ember under certain conditions.

The DNA of a rare, sexually transmissible cancer has been decoded. It arose in a single, husky-like dog 11,000 years ago and has survived through millions of genetic changes. The only other known transmissible cancer is the facial cancer currently devastating our Tasmanian devils.

A newly discovered species of Brazilian river dolphin is the first new river species found since 1918. Named the Araguaia river dolphin, it's estimated that there are about 1,000 of these creatures living in the river that flows northward for more than 2,600km to join the Amazon.

Good news for all those caffeine-addicted students out there, new research has suggested that drinking two cups of coffee after learning could boost your memory. A team of US scientists found that 200 mg of caffeine can enhance certain memories for at least a day after they're formed. But before you start overdosing on coffee, remember too much caffeine can be toxic, and some researchers are pointing out that more work needs to be done before these results can be confirmed.

Lions are now critically endangered in West Africa. Although they once ranged continuously from Senegal to Nigeria, new research has revealed only around 250 adult lions survive in the region, and only one of the four isolated populations contains more than 50 individuals. 

A female Halictus ligatus bee covered in pollen, photographed by Sam Droege, head of the US Geological Survey Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory in Maryland. 

The furthest object we can see with the naked eye is the Andromeda galaxy 2.6 million light years away.

A glowing cylinder of 238PuO2

The Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy in infrared light.

DEM L 159 and two clusters KMHK 840 (top left) and KMHK 831 (bottom right).

N44 region in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

SNR 0543-689 in the LMC. 

LHA 120-N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The star formation region NGC 2035 imaged by the ESO VLT

Two very different glowing gas clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

 
M1-67 is the youngest wind-nebula around a Wolf-Rayet star, called WR124, in our Galaxy.

HD 184738, also known as Campbell’s Star. This is actually a planetary nebula and the central star is an old low mass star unlike the main class of young massive Wolf-Rayet stars.

The nebula around Wolf–Rayet star WR124, which is located at a distance of about 21,000 light years.

Supernova remnant N 63A lies within a clumpy region of gas and dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The pulsar in the Crab nebula is travelling at 375 km/s relative to the nebula.

The atypical subluminous type II SN 1997D

Multiwavelength composite image of the supernova remnant N49 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Multiwavelength composite image of the remnant of Tycho's supernova, SN 1572.

Multiwavelength X-ray, infrared, and optical compilation image of Kepler's supernova remnant, SN 1604.

Eta Carinae, in the constellation of Carina, one of the nearer candidates for a future hypernova.

Wavemeter for measuring in the Ku band.

Magnetron with section removed to exhibit the cavities. The cathode in the center is not visible. The waveguide emitting microwaves is at the left. The magnet producing a field parallel to the long axis of the device is not shown.

 
Cutaway view inside a cavity magnetron as used in a microwave oven

This is the streamlined, two-person watercraft that breaches and submerges just like the Orcinus orca after which it is designed. A pilot protected beneath its watertight 1/2″-thick acrylic canopy pushes and pulls twin control levers to articulate the whale’s pectoral fins for rolls and stealthy dives. With a finger on the right lever’s throttle trigger, steering is provided by dual foot pedals that control the vectored thrust of the craft’s 255-hp supercharged Rotax axial flow engine, enabling realistic behaviors such as porpoising or skyhopping.

It turns out snails can move pretty quickly when threatened. Unfortunately, these conch snails will lose their extraordinary jumping ability as a result of rising carbon dioxide emissions, new research involving James Cook University has revealed. The international researchers found that the snail either stops jumping or takes longer to jump when exposed to the levels of CO2 projected for the end of this century.

Fish glow in the dark! A new study has shown that 180 species of fish, such eels and lizardfishes, have fluorescent coatings. The researchers found that these fish emit bright green, orange and red colours, discovering new fluorescent proteins that could help scientists in the development of better medical techniques.

Thousands of bats rained down on Queensland’s residents over the weekend. Apparently the poor creatures couldn’t survive the recent heatwave that hit the region.

Mexican scientists found a recently deceased conjoined grey whale calves. The specimen, which measures 2.1 m, was discovered in Laguna Ojo de Liebre, near Baja California, and it’s now being analysed. This may be the first documented discovery of conjoined grey whales.