Justin Hall lands the Dryden Remotely Operated Integrated Drone 2 (DROID 2) aircraft at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Aug. 22, 2023. via NASA https://ift.tt/pMq1ncI
“I refuse to confide and don’t like it when people write about art.” – Balthus
“When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.” – E. O. Wilson
Galaxy NGC 4632 hides a secret from optical telescopes. It is surrounded by a ring of cool hydrogen gas orbiting at 90 degrees to its spiral disk. Such polar ring galaxies have previously been discovered using starlight. However, NGC 4632 is among the first in which a radio telescope survey revealed a polar ring. The […]
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In this image from July 24, 2023, astronaut Frank Rubio completes a session on the Surface Avatar Remote Control Terminal, which investigates how haptic controls, user interfaces, and virtual reality could command and control surface-bound robots from long distances. via NASA https://ift.tt/GCjy5uq
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” – H. G. Wells
“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.” – Michelangelo
Some 4 billion light-years away, massive galaxy cluster Abell 370 is captured in this sharp Hubble Space Telescope snapshot. The cluster of galaxies only appears to be dominated by two giant elliptical galaxies and infested with faint arcs. In reality, the fainter, scattered bluish arcs, along with the dramatic dragon arc below and left of […]
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