wishing you all a cosmic New Year!

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wishing you all a cosmic New Year!

download this collage to fit your screen at super-collider.com/goodies

moon cushion by Loligo / limited edition of 12

hand screenprinted on grey cotton linen, this 30cm diameter cushion was lovingly created from a vintage astronomical image of the moon by Loren Filis of Loligo

£40 /buy now

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next event: Deep Future
join us on 22 February 2012 as we voyage to the year 3000 and beyond to see what the deep and distant future holds for humankind – or our descendents

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later today, researchers working at the Large Hadron Collider will host a seminar to (quote) provide an update on experimental progress over the last 12 months (end quote) at the Atlas and CERN experiments. and though the CERN press office says “we are told that there will be NO announcement confirming or refuting the existence of the Higgs boson” the rest of the world is buzzing about the possibility they’ve found hints of the elusive ‘God Particle’ read more

having explored the solar system with Björk, our favourite pop physicist Marcus Chown has turned his attention to the universe, neatly summarising everything you’ve ever wanted to know in 140 characters – well, kind of. originally written as a series of Tweets, the book takes on questions ranging from “What makes the sky blue?” to “What happened before the Big Bang?” and answers them in short, sharp summaries – perfect for those of us with short attention spans

all this week we’ll be retweeting excerpts from Tweeting the Universeand giving away five copies to the most prolific retweeters. click here to see the posts and retweet for your chance to win

with Dawn’s adventures in the asteroid field entering month five, amazing images and videos continue to arrive from deep space. first it was a close up view of Vesta, then a 3D tour of the asteroid, and now NASA have released these beautiful images of rocks from Vesta – found right here on earth

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despite the failure of Russia’s ambitious Phobos sample return mission, the next chapter in our exploration of Mars began over the weekend with the launch of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory read more

super/collider’s own John Hooper was involved in the making of this amazing promo for Another Earth, which tells the story of a second planet approaching ours. filmed at a school in West London, it shows the textbooks literally being re-written as a solar system forms inside the school and the earth’s climate changes. to make the video, John shot still images of the backgrounds, which were then animated by director Rupert Cresswell of Glint…

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Few people on earth can tell the kind of stories that Sylvia Earle can. We’re huddled around a speaker phone, leaning forward intently as the legendary oceanographer recounts one of the most memorable moments of her long career. The year was 1979, and Earle was about to attempt the deepest undersea walk ever attempted. At a depth of 381 metres beneath the surface, she stepped off the edge of a submersible – and into the abyss read more

handmade by the ever-crafty folks at Present&Correct, each of these one-of-a-kind envelopes is made using lovingly recycled 1960s science journals. each set contains six envelopes, blank notecards and address labels – ideal for invites, thank-yous and other essential correspondence of a scientific nature

£8 / buy now

photograph by John Hooper / edition of 12
20x16inch C-type Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper

£240 / buy now

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Linepithema humile
Argentine ant

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on distant moons and remote mountaintops, crystals slowly grow starwards, while lichens, mosses and funghi creep across the landscape. mushroom clouds bloom on the horizon, while planets and insects hover under orange skies. as strange figures dance on hilltops, expressways cut through canyons made of rock and cities

this is the strange and wonderful world of collage artist Seana Gavin’s mind and art: a surreal set of worlds composed of images from our world, but utterly different. with her first three dimensional work opening this week at b store, and being fans of a good diorama, we thought it high time we caught up her to talk all things cosmic…

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it’s taken us days and days and days to even start this post – possibly because we can’t actually bring ourselves to acknowledge that after almost sixty years of nature broadcasting, Sir David Attenborough might well have completed his last major TV epic read more

the world of particle physics is full of huge detectors and complicated machines searching for unimaginably small particles. the Particle Zoo – in contrast – is a colourful little workshop in LA created and run by self-taught physicist Julie Peasley. visiting the studio is like entering a subatomic world of stitching, sewing machines, buttons, zips, multi-coloured felts – and a few cats to keep Schrödinger happy. her immaculately-ordered shelves echo the grid-like standard model structure, with ‘boson eyes’ at one end, ‘beta decay zippers’ at the other. even every thread colour is ‘charm’ or ‘strange’, ‘truth’ or ‘beauty’

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gallium (Ga) read more

super/collider present an exclusive selection from the Particle Zoo collection:  this smiley gluon is the ‘glue’ of the strong nuclear force.  it is the boson that communicates the strong force – holding quarks together.  it is has no mass or electric charge.

made from acrylic felt with poly fill for minimum mass, approx 15cm across. (only suitable for ages 5 and up)

£10 / buy now

Sister Arrow is an artist and illustrator inspired by nature, metaphysics and primitive life. this beautiful five-colour Risograph print is part of her ‘vessel’ series, based on research into creating a homemade terrarium

£15 /buy now

details
A4 colour Risograph print on 200gsm stock
new colourway re-edition
hand-signed by the artist

photograph by John Hooper, edition of 12
25x20inch C-type Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper

£350 / buy now

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The world’s newest, largest and most complicated telescope is now official open for astronomy. Located high in the deserts of Chile, the European Southern Observatory’s Atacama Large Milllimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) is made up of a series of interlinked antennas stretching across an ultra-arid plain 5000m above sea level read more

28 September 2011

the first book in our new All About: Science series launches this Wednesday at The Landfill Library – a pop-up shop at Wiltons Café with new books by Landfill Editions and music from L-V-L and Burning Bush of TOP NICE.  read more

All About: Science is a new series from Landfill Editions and super/collider, exploring the myriad worlds of science through the eyes of contemporary image makers

our first book focuses on crystals – from Mexican caves and ancient rituals to solar panels and outer space. find out what makes a crystal grow, why they were worshipped and where to find the world’s largest specimens in this guide, illustrated by Nous Vous

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a 22.70g fragment of the Carancas meteorite, an H chondrite breccia containing clasts of petrologic types 4 to 5 read more

after nearly three decades of smashing particles together, physicists at America’s forerunner to the Large Hadron Collider will be raising a glass as the Tevatron is shut down for the final time later today. and while many are talking about the closure in the context of increasing international competition (like China’s recent space habitat launch), the team at Fermilab (whose amazing offices are pictured above) will probably be remembering the good times, like discovering the elusive top quark particle, and looking ahead to the mysteriously named Project X

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situated nearly 2400m above the surrounding ocean, the telescopes of the European Northern Observatory on La Palma offer astronomers some of the best night-sky views on earth. every evening, their giant optics open and begin tracking the sky, imaging hazy nebulas and distant galaxies. located on the western-most of the Canary Islands, the facility is perched on the rim of an ancient volcanic caldera, high above clouds that drift towards the coast of Africa. silent and remote, it is truly a world apart  read more

forty years ago this January, Apollo 14 blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, bound for the moon. six days later, the three-man crew landed in the Fra Mauro highlands, and spent nearly ten hours exploring the lunar surface. after the initial euphoria of Neil Armstrong’s first small steps and the drama of Apollo 13, this mission – along with the three subsequent landings – was largely forgotten by the general public, marking the beginning of the end of the Apollo program and mankind’s exploration of the lunar surface

as the 40th anniversaries of these final landings passes, super/collider invites you to delve into these lost missions by exploring the NASA photo archives to help us create an open-source exhibition based on mankind’s final days on the moon. building on our apollo77 exhibition, Apollo’s End will celebrate the thousands of images we rarely see: sun-streaked Hasselblad photographs, blurred motion shots and the grainy, gritty beauty of the lunar landscape itself – a world so long dreamed of, and so soon forgotten once we arrived read more

in July 2011, super/collider joined Unknown Fields and students from the Architecture Association School on an epic journey into the atomic and cosmic regions of the former Soviet Union: from the ruins of Chernobyl to Baikonur Cosmodrome and points between and beyond read more

photograph by John Hooper / edition of 12
16x12inch C-type Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper

£120 / buy now

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Monika is a 22 year-old student from Poland studying math, science and astronomy in New York City. Valerie Phillips is a renowned London-based photographer who spent a few years (on and off) documenting Monica’s life of studying, swimming, eating doughnuts, partying and just walking around. signed by the author, this unique book is printed on lovely matte stock with great commentary from Valerie and Monika about each other

£15 /buy now

carefully researched and beautifully laid-out poster by Present&Correct showing Britain’s endangered native species – from ‘Adder’ to ‘Zonate Tooth Fungi’. measuring 420x595mm, it comes printed on lovely recycled stock in a neatly-designed tube

£21 /buy now

a stunningly simple ceramic birdhouse inspired by the natural forms of birds nests, Birdball provides functional nesting for small garden visitors like blue tits, coal tits and marsh tits. the hole is large enough to allow them in, but small enough to keep out predators. made in Devon, each Birdball is supplied with stainless steel wire (1m long), a tree protector and detailed instructions. a perfect gift for the style-conscious orthnithologist in your life

£35 / buy now

photograph by John Hooper / edition of 12
20x16inch C-type Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper

£240 / buy now

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