Extraordinary thing to do with your Old Light Bulbs

So what do you do with your old light bulbs? Like most of us, just throw it off! But we are sure once you go through this post, you will definitely have a few options to choose from. Well what can be said, after all these are just too creative!

Light Bulb "Green" House: How about creating a 'green house' with these bulbs? These look quite impressive with small plants in them. If you want to make one, here are the details - link.

Light Bulb Aquarium: Who wouldn't like to give this one a try? It just looks cool, all you would need is a globe light bulb, a coat hanger………. And here are the steps to make one of this - link.

Concrete Light bulb Wallhook: We have seen quite a few of these in the past but this one is functional yet stylish, and sure to impress one and all. Here are details - link.

Salt And Pepper Shakers: How about taking an old light bulb and turning it into a saltshaker? Did you know that "plastic caps from 16 oz. soda bottles fit the threads of a standard light bulb?"

Awesome Night Light: We have here another interesting use, creating a night light. All you would need is a light bulb, candle wax and few more things, here are the details to make - link.

Light Bulb Lamps: Can you believe it, these 'Light Bulb Lamps' can cost $650? Well this is what we came to know: "Brooklyn Industrial Designer Sergio Silva, was selling these pair of Light Bulb Lamps for $650". If you aren't interested to pay and want to make one, here are the details - link.

Another Option: Here are the details - link.

Small Fish Bowl: 'Small fish bowl for a small fish out of a g40 lightbulb'.

Lightbulb Ship: A ship built in a regular 60w lightbulb.

Vessel To Boil Water: A more traditional use to the bulb. But before you get started what you need is to hollow out a light bulb. And here we have some good in depth tutorials how to do it - link.

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Lamps Made Out Of Light Bulbs: Bulbs Unlimited sells kits that creatively uses old light bulbs and transforms them into new light fixtures like the ones pictured here.

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Light Bulb Planters:

Another 'Green' House: The flower is growing in a 50-50 mix of inert media and potting soil. Here are the details - link.

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Light Bulb Lamp: This one looks quite good, once you hollow out the bulb, just follow the instructions given and you too can create one of this. Link.

Light Bulb Art Creation: Created by Datamancer, who was inspired to make something of his own from an old light bulb after reading the tutorial of how to hollow out a light bulb.

Ship In A Light Bulb: Another ship in a light bulb.

Light Bulb Vase: It looks simple yet an elegant vase. All you would need is a light bulb, a metal rod (around 3/16") and piece of wood. Here are the instructions to make one - link.

Light Bulb Planter: "It's been in there about 10 months now, and it's still not overgrown the bulb."

Light Bulb Window Vase: To create these you would need light bulbs and some wire. Here are details - link.

Light Bulb Ship: Yet another light bulb project with ship and for this one you have the instructions too to make one link.

Light Bulb Planter:

Light Bulb Vases: A project by Care2.com.

Pendant Lamp: This pendant is functional and economical.

Bulb Ornaments: How about creating cute light bulb characters, sculptures, or snowman? The cute light bulb characters "Delightful Creations" are the creation of Rita and G Monette. And if you want to make a cute snowman or bulb ornaments, here are the details to make one: link | link.

Scout Ornament: Here are details - link.

Light Bulb Turkey and Light Bulb Cow Ornament: Both of these look cool; here are the details to make these: Link | Link.




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Surprise Star Formation Establish Near Black Hole

This artist's concept shows young, blue stars encircling a supermassive black hole at the core of a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. The background stars are the typical older, redder population of stars that inhabit the cores of most galaxies (including our own). CfA astronomers caught two stars in the act of forming within a few light-years of the Milky Way's center. Their find demonstrates that stars can form at our galaxy's core despite the powerful gravitational tides generated by the black hole. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Schaller (for STScI)Two embryonic stars discovered just a few light years away from the Milky Way's center show that stars can form in the potentially destructive reach of the powerful black hole at our galaxy's center.

Astronomers have long known that young stars could be found near the center of the galaxy, but they had no idea how the stars got there.

The region wasn't thought to be conducive to star formation because of the powerful gravitational tides stirred up by the 4 million solar-mass black hole at the galaxy's center. Scientists had figured that the tides would rip apart any gas clouds that could act as stellar nurseries.

An alternative explanation, that the stars fell in toward the galaxy's center after forming elsewhere, was thought to be a rare event.

But the new discovery, presented here today at the 213th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, shows that the stars did form in place.

"We literally caught these stars in the act of forming," said Elizabeth Humphreys of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass.

Because the gas and dust between Earth and the galactic center blocks visible light from getting out, astronomers use infrared and radio wavelengths to peer into the region.

Humphreys and her colleagues (at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany) used the Very Large Array of radio telescopes to search for water masers — radio signals that signal proto-stars still embedded in their birth cocoons.

The team found the proto-stars at seven light-years and 10 light-years from the galactic center (a light-year is the distance light will travel in a year, about 6 trillion miles, or 10 trillion kilometers). Combined with one previously identified proto-star, the objects show that star formation is taking place near the Milky Way's center.

The finding suggests that the molecular gas at the center of the Milky Way from which the stars form is denser than previously thought. The higher density gas makes it easier for the self-gravity of the condensing cloud to overcome the strong pull of the black hole and to collapse to form new stars.

The discovery also supports recent supercomputer simulations that showed star formation within a few light years of the Milky Way's central black hole.


This 0.6 by 0.7-degree infrared photograph of the galactic center shows a large population of old, red stars. However, the discovery of two young protostars within a few light-years of the center of the Milky Way shows that stars can form there despite powerful gravitational tides due to the supermassive black hole. Credit: 2MASS/E. Kopan (IPAC/Caltech)
"We don't understand the environment at the galactic center very well yet," Humphreys said. "By combining observational studies like ours with theoretical work, we hope to get a better handle on what's happening at our galaxy's core. Then, we can extrapolate to more distant galaxies."