Technology & Innovation

Lee Weigt explains how he invented a solution that allows robotic arms of a submersible or ROV to deploy and retrieve ARMS (Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures). This greatly expands our ability to assess coastal biodiversity communities by .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Curator Andrew Meade McGee discusses the Cray-1A supercomputer and explores the connection between the history of computing and the history of aerospace.

In the 1970s, scientists Frank Drake and Carl Sagan worked together to create a map that would provide directions to our celestial neighborhood—the Solar System. But how do you make a map of space? Their solution was to use pulsars—spinning .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Season's Greetings from space! NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is sending you a holiday card with four new winter-themed images that contain X-rays from Chandra and data from other telescopes, including our friends at @NASAHubble and @NASAWebb.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

A new symphony based on data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, as well as the James Webb Space Telescope, transforms astronomical observations into music that traces the life cycle of stars.

WR124 is an extremely bright, short-lived massive star known as a Wolf-Rayet at a distance of about 28,000 light-years from Earth. These stars fling their outer layers out into space, creating spectacular arrangements seen in an image in infrared .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.