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Motherboard's Spaced Out Explores Making Music With the Sun
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Spaced Out: 'The Space Composer' is Making Music With the Sun
To sonify is to make beauty available to our human senses through sound. And, through the work of artist and NASA fellow Robert Alexander, it's also a means to discovery.
The Space Composer
As we started planning the second season of our 'Spaced Out' series, we wanted to feature non-scientists thinking about the future of space. Enter composer Robert Alexander, who is helping NASA make new discoveries by turning raw data into music...
Open Source Outer Space
Anyone with enough brains and balls can build their own rocket and fly it to space. Or at least that’s what the nonprofit, open-source space-project Copenhagen Suborbitals wants the world to realize. They're determined to create the first homemade...
Spaced Out: Open Source Outer Space
Anyone with enough brains and balls can build their own rocket and fly it to space. Or at least that’s what Copenhagen Suborbitals wants to prove.
Patrick Moore Was the Forrest Gump of the Space Age: Watch His Greatest Hits
For over fifty years, Patrick Moore was the very British face of the space age – an eccentric, monocle-wearing, xylophone-playing mix of Carl Sagan, Jack Horkheimer and Walter Cronkite.
Spaced Out: The Satellite Hunter
Thierry Legault is not your average amateur astronomer, inviting the kids over and pointing a dinky backyard telescope at the Big Dipper.
The Satellite Hunter
Thierry Legault is not your average amateur astronomer. He’s a renowned astrophotographer, painstakingly chronicling the orbits of planets, distant galaxies, spaceships, and—to the chagrin of the intelligence community—the spy satellites we’re not...
The Giant Endangered Cosmic Ear Inside America's Cell Phone Black Hole
In the early 1930s, physicist Karl Jansky published "stunning results":http://cosmology.carnegiescience.edu/timeline/1964/karl-janskys-radio-antenna of a study in which he detected radio waves emanating from the center of the Milky Way. Jansky's work...
The Giant Endangered Cosmic Ear Inside America's Cell Phone Black Hole
In 1956, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) was formed in Green Bank, West Virginia, and became the hotbed of radio astronomy in the United States.
Space Bears' Revenge: Mike Shaw Responds to the Tardigrade Craze
Over the past two weeks, "our _Spaced Out_ episode":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/9/4/motherboard-tv-meet-the-guy-who-hunts-space-bears-in-rural-virginia about the naturalist Mike Shaw and his love for "tardigrades":http://serc.carleton.edu...
Meet the Guy Who Hunts Space Bears in Rural Virginia
_Episode 5 of our space show, Spaced Out. See other episodes "in the video room":http://motherboard.vice.com/video/series/spaced-out_Mike Shaw is a quiet, unassuming man in love with the wilderness. He also knows far more about tardigrades then almost...