Visual Astronomy Display: January 2016

Visual Astronomy Display for January 2016

Highlights…

  • NASA’s Marshall Center reviews the accomplishments of 2015 that will help make deep space exploration, and a journey to Mars, possible in the future;
  • Lenore Rasmussen is developing synthetic muscles, materials that can expand, contract, flex, and stretch in any direction. Eventually it can be used to develop humanoid robots that have the ability to mimic human dexterity and mobility;
  • A five minute time lapse video simulating the waxing and waning cycles of the Moon for the entire year 2016 by NASA Goddard;
  • Phil Plait’s continues his Astronomy Crash Course series with two videos on the outer Solar system covering Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune;
  • Danny Pudi and Robert Picardo explain how the Spitzer Space Telescope stays cold in the sunlight, even colder than the ambient temperature of space itself, with the help of a cheery talking postage stamp; and
  • In addition to the traditional larger space probes, JPL is also developing small machines about the size of a computer tower known as CubeSats that will be set into space, or even to other planets to conduct experiments and observations on the cheap.

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About Katie Frey

Katie Frey leads the development of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus, a community supported linked data vocabulary for sorting, filtering, and exploring astronomical literature, data sets, images, etc.

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