Month: May 2022

On May 19, 2000, the space shuttle Atlantis launched with the very first “glass cockpit.” This was one of several big upgrades that were made to the space shuttle before the mission STS-101. NASA called this new and improved version of Atlantis “the most updated space shuttle ever.” The new glass cockpit had 11 flat-panel, full-color display screens. These replaced four old-school, cathode-ray tube displays and 32 different gauges and indicators. Not only did the cockpit look way cooler than it did before, but the new displays also made it…

Aspiring astronauts rejoice, Bethesda’s long-awaited odyssey into space is finally just a few months away. While many of the details are nebulous at best, we’ve collected everything we know about Starfield to help you gain a better understanding of what you can expect from one of this year’s most eagerly anticipated games. First of all, if you’re a fan of Bethesda’s flagship series The Elder Scrolls and Fallout then you’re in luck. While this is the first new IP the company has unveiled in over two decades, Bethesda boss Todd…

We would love to be able to get kids into astronomy just by giving them a pair of binoculars and pointing them at the night sky. However, not every pair of binoculars is suitable for them to use and could make for a frustrating experience if they’re not quite right. Most binoculars are typically sized for adult hands and faces and they can be pretty weighty so not practical for an enjoyable evening of stargazing with small children. Many top manufacturers now have models tailored for kids, including Celestron, Nikon…

Astronomers used a perhaps unlikely tool to understand what they saw in their historic first image of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole: a library of computer simulations that mimic the black hole with millions of variations. Taking an image of a black hole, such as Sagittarius A* in the center of our galaxy, with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is one of the most complicated feats that any astronomer will ever undertake. The new image combines petabytes of data from eight radio telescopes distributed all over the world; advanced…

Anycubic is back again, this time with the Anycubic M3. This is the entry-level model in the new M3 lineup from the 3D printing veterans, and it offers a lot of bang for your buck. Given the size of this printer, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it might in some way be limited with its ability to produce brilliant quality 3D models, but that isn’t the case.  Anycubic started out with FDM printers back in the now ancient year of 2015, and have slowly, over the years, built up…