Tag: Space
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NASA-funded UW researchers develop kidney-stone zapping technology
Michael Bailey, the principal investigator of the research team, with the ultrasound system that will be sent to the International Space Station. Bailey’s team is incorporating technology that breaks up kidney stones into the machine. (Photo from HSNewsBeat) Imagine you are an astronaut, chosen for the first manned mission to Mars. After years of preparation,…
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30 years in the making, ‘Voyage of Time’ trailer sends you on a cosmic trip
The poster for “Voyage of Time” emphasizes the film’s cosmic subject matter. (Credit: IMAX) The video trailer for “Voyage of Time” provides a trippy taste of a movie that’s been more than 30 years in the making – and tells the story of a universe that’s been billions of years in the making. Make that…
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Hubble Space Telescope celebrates the Fourth of July with galactic fireworks
The tadpole galaxy Kiso 5639, also known as LEDA 36252, sparkles in this Hubble image. (Credit: D. Elmegreen et al. / Vassar / NASA / ESA) Kiso 5639 is just a tadpole when it comes to galaxies, but it’s a real firecracker in a picture unveiled by the Hubble Space Telescope’s science team just in…
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What’s next in space is beautifully animated in ‘Space Next,’ showing at The Museum of Flight
(Afterglow Studios via Via Museum of Flight) The line between “can we really do that?” and pure science fiction seems to blur more every day, especially when it comes to space exploration. A cutting-edge, digitally animated film called “Space Next” will further excite those intrigued by futuristic possibilities. The 3D film is showing Saturday at…
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Most of us can’t see the Milky Way – this dark sky atlas shows you where you can
A Google Earth visualization shows the effect of light pollution on night-sky viewing in North America. Darker colors indicate lower light pollution, while warmer colors indicate higher levels. (Credit: Falchi et al., Science Advances; Jakob Grothe / NPS; Matthew Price / CU-Boulder) Eighty percent of Americans can’t see the Milky Way from where they live,…
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The universe is expanding 5-9% faster than astronomers expected, Hubble team finds
Illustration shows the three steps astronomers used to measure the universe’s expansion rate to an unprecedented accuracy. (Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Feild (STScI), and A. Riess (STScI/JHU)) New research from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope team suggests that the universe is expanding significantly faster than astronomers originally thought. The latest measurements indicate an expansion rate five to nine…
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Astronauts do backflips, talk Mars and social media in Facebook Live chat from space with Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, right, speaks via Facebook Live with astronauts, from left, Tim Kopra, Jeff Williams and Tim Peake. (Via Facebook) There are plenty of billionaires racing to get us to space in one way or another, but Mark Zuckerberg sort of beat them to the punch Wednesday when he participated in the first-ever Facebook…
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Bayer partners with Planetary Resources to use space data to boost agriculture on Earth
The Planetary Resources sign at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash. German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer today inked a memorandum of understanding with Planetary Resources as part of a deal to utilize satellite images collected by the Redmond-based space startup. Bayer will use information from the crop-specific images to develop agricultural products as part of its Digital…
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Top 5 things to do at Museum of Flight’s ‘Above and Beyond’ aerospace exhibit
London visitor Letu Yang helps his 4-year-old son, Rafael Yang, fly a custom-built jet through a “Full Throttle” simulation at the “Above and Beyond” exhibit at the Museum of Flight. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) Most of the floor space at Seattle’s Museum of Flight is set aside to celebrate past glories of aerospace – but “Above…
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Video: ‘Star Trek’ shows its age – and agelessness – in EMP Museum’s 50th-anniversary exhibition
From several yards away, the bridge of the Starship Enterprise looks as if it was beamed down from the 23rd century into the “Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds” exhibition that opens Saturday at Seattle’s EMP Museum. But up close, you can tell it’s a 50-year-old movie prop, with rocker switches from the ’60s and bits of…