You've no doubt seen string art before – it consists of images created by running thread between pins on a board. Well, scientists at Austria's Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) have recently created an algorithm that allows a robot to recreate existing images in string-art form.
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Astronomers have released one of the most comprehensive photos snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, combining ultraviolet, infrared and visible light into one image that shows thousands of galaxies spread across space and time.
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Saturn’s moon Titan is one of the most interesting bodies in the solar system – but at a glance it looks like a dull yellow ball, thanks to a soupy atmosphere. Now, using 13 years’ worth of infrared data from Cassini, astronomers have stitched together the clearest images yet of Titan’s surface.
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In a rare case of corporate awareness of social responsibility, Adobe has just revealed it is working on an artificial intelligence system that can quickly detect whether an image has been artificially manipulated.
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NASA has released a gallery of images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing celestial objects contained in the Messier catalog. The collection was compiled by renowned French astronomer Charles Messier to help colleagues differentiate wandering comets from other objects, like nebulae.
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On September 22, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully completed a gravity assist flyby with Earth, which has set the probe on a course to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu next year. At its closest point, OSIRIS-REx flew within 10,711 miles of Earth's surface.
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The ESO has released a three-gigapixel image that captures three beautiful astronomical objects – the famous Eagle Nebula, the Omega Nebula, and the lesser known Sharpless 2-54.
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The European Southern Observatory has unveiled a staggeringly detailed visible light image of the famous Cat’s Paw and Lobster nebulae, made up of around two billion pixels. The nebulae are located in the “tail” of the constellation Scorpius, and represent regions of intense star formation.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released the first batch of images taken by the GOES-16 satellite, including a breath-taking image of Earth's full disk.
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NASA has released images showing Saturn’s enormous hexagonal north polar jet stream. The jet stream is large enough to swallow two Earth-sized planets laid either side of the dark, central polar storm.
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