Yesterday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day was this timelapse video of the space shuttle Endeavour in the streets of Los Angeles, being transferred from the LAX airport to the California Space Center.
This post is a topic a bit different from the usual on this blog, but I thought the following video to be really worth sharing. Made back in 2003, it was featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day yesterday (if you want your daily delivery of stunning pictures, just subscribe to their feed) and shows a visualization of the DNA, including the incredible replication process.
I already mentioned the camera built by a team in the MIT Media Lab, allowing with its trillions of frame per second, to capture the propagation of light or to see around corners.
TED published a video of the talk given by Ramesh Raskar, where he presents this work and the new possibilities it opens.
So yesterday was the announcement of a massive breakthrough: CERN have discovered a new particle thought to be a Higgs boson. This is a milestone discovery future generations will have in their textbooks. Maybe it is a good time to remind the excellent animation Jorge Cham published a few months ago, explaining in simple words what the Higgs boson is. (it is also a good time to have a look at the photos taken soon before the launch of the Large Hadron Collider)
The MIT Media Lab, that I mentioned previously when they published their experiment consisting in filming the very propagation of light, strikes again by using their device to take pictures of objects hidden from the line of sight.
Update: there is now a TED talk presenting femto photography.
The MIT Media lab published some jaw dropping videos of experiments consisting in filming the very propagation of light. By repeatedly capturing a very short beam of light, they reconstruct images of its propagation.
Update: there is now a TED talk presenting femto photography.
When I was a child, astronomy was a big thing to me, and while I gave up on the idea of ever becoming an astronomer since then, I am still in love with that field. At the time, images would come from books, a scarce resource to a kiddie. But nowadays, high quality pictures are just a click away, on websites such as the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
One of the recent missions that most impresses me is the Cassini one. The images that spacecraft has provided over the last years on its journey to Saturn and its satellites are magnificent.
Chris Abbas made a video out of some of them, resulting in this mesmerizing two minutes film:
Here are a couple of photos taken by the Cassini spacecraft:
Also don’t miss the compilation published on the The Big Picture.