NASA announced plans today to return to the Hubble Space Telescope in 2008 (the fifth servicing mission thus far) to replace the observatory’s gyroscopes and batteries, install two new instruments: the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), and attempt to repair the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) which has been offline for two years.
Centripetal Notion// archive
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The United Stats of America
This month’s TIME magazine takes a look at “The United Stats of America” in the wake of the national population passing 300 million on October 17th.
Still Life
“In most Victorian post-mortem photography, the deceased was shown peacefully sleeping. In deaths involving children, post-mortem photography was especially precious since little or no pictures were taken before their death. (..) Most pictures were thought to be a keepsake rather than an alarming reminder of short mortality.”
Whitney Music Box Variations
The Whitney Music Box, a procedural music visualization derived from work by John Whitney, has been updated to include a number of variations on the original.
Spirit Contemplative in Old Age
For a crippled extraterrestrial rover past its prime*, the Martian winter is cold and unforgiving. Tucked away on a small hill with a view of the sun for the past four months, Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has been making do, using available solar energy to work on, among other things, the most detailed photograph of the Martian surface to date.
Si Scott
Si Scott’s beautiful, illustrative & typographic work has been circulating recently — is circulating, who am I to stop it.
Paul Laffoley
Laffoley’s paintings depict his vision of reality with geometric precision: theories of time, space, the universe, the soul, etc.
Jonathan Coulton @ PopTech
Last week I left a note on Laura’s desk
It said I love you signed anonymous friend
Turns out she’s smarter than I thought she was
She knows I wrote it, now the whole class does too
And I’m all alone during couple skate
When she skates by with some guy on her arm
But I know that I’ll forget the look of pity in her face
When I’m living in my solar dome on a platform in space (…)
Tim Fort’s Kinetic Art
Tim Fort’s work is a cross between domino wizardry and a Rube Goldberg machine, kind of like a living Domino Rally meets Honda Cog.
Navel-Gazing
High-res desktops made from satellite images of Earth courtesy Google Maps.
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