This light shall pass

Emmanuel Joly from Le Cannet-des-Maures, France Narrowband Hα, SII, and OIII filters were used to collect 31.6 hours of data with an 8-inch scope for this portrait of the Wizard Nebula, which surrounds the open cluster NGC 7380 in Cepheus. The star field comprises RGB exposure times of 45 minutes […]

NASA Kennedy Digs Latest Robot Test

NASA’s RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) undergoes testing to extract simulated regolith, or the loose, fragmental material on the Moon’s surface, inside of the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations Lab at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 27. Ben Burdess, mechanical engineer at NASA Kennedy, […]

Aerones, which makes robots that can service wind turbines in about half the time of humans, raised $62M led by Activate Capital and S2G Investments (Virginia Furness/Reuters)

Virginia Furness / Reuters: Aerones, which makes robots that can service wind turbines in about half the time of humans, raised $62M led by Activate Capital and S2G Investments  —  Latvian tech company Aerones, which counts GE and Enel among its customers, has raised $62 million to fund a global […]