It's about a bilion times smaller than our actual closest star (140 cm, the artist made sure to make this exact), but Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has managed to recreate its glowing...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Thursday January 17th, 2013 12:00 PM
Categories: Science, Art & Design | 2 Comments
Quality cameras for microscope and telescope photography can run $500. But you can also use your family digital camera, attaching it to the eyepiece with a simple mount made from...
Posted by Peter Torrione
Categories: Photography & Video, Science | No Comments
Nearly 200 years ago, Joseph von Fraunhofer built the first spectroscope and saw dark lines in the spectrum of the sun. This led him to discover that you can determine...
Posted by Simon Quellen Field
Categories: Science | No Comments
One of my favorite things to do is talk with other ham radio operators through satellites or the International Space Station (ISS). To do this, I stand on a rooftop...
Posted by Diana Eng
Categories: Electronics, Science | No Comments
Professor Takushi Tanaka and his team at the Fukuoka Institute of Technology built a 10 centimeter cube-shaped micro-satellite called the FITSAT-1. It was deployed from the International Space Station on...
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder | Tuesday October 9th, 2012 12:30 PM
Categories: General, Science | 2 Comments
I first encountered this amazing infographic hanging on a professor's office wall when I was visiting law schools back in 1999. I've been trying, off and on, to run down...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday September 13th, 2012 5:00 PM
Categories: Science, Art & Design | 48 Comments
Laurent Laveder is a landscape astrophotographer. No, really. That's his job! OK, he's also an astronomy journalist, if that makes you feel any better. But it's his amazing astrophotography, especially...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday September 7th, 2011 9:00 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Photography & Video, Science | 4 Comments
Starting in 1995, Frank Kovac took ten years constructing amechanical globe planetarium of his own design despite having no prior engineering experience. The Kovac Planetarium in Monico Wisconsin is only...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Tuesday August 23rd, 2011 4:00 PM
Categories: Education, Makers, Science | 2 Comments
Instructables user and aerospace engineer maewert shows us how to turn a backyard shed into a personal astronomical observatory. By modding the roof of a shed so that it can...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Monday August 8th, 2011 4:00 AM
Categories: Science | No Comments
Time lapse video by Elias Politis, uppermost, and single image composite of same, immediately above. It's NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day for June 25.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday June 29th, 2011 9:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Computers & Mobile, Photography & Video, Science | 3 Comments
Both these remarkable shots were captured from the ground by French astrophotographer Thierry Legault. The first, showing the ISS passing in front of the full moon, was taken from Avranches,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday January 5th, 2011 4:14 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Photography & Video, Science | 7 Comments
Amongst other emerging tools the Arduino platform has made building cheap sensor platforms within the easy reach of amateurs, and professionals, alike. One of the projects I'll be talking about...
Posted by Brian Jepson | Monday October 18th, 2010 6:09 PM
Categories: Arduino, Computers & Mobile, Science | No Comments
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