Astronomer Captures NASA’s Mysterious Green Laser Beams

A homemade motion detection camera has become the first instrument on Earth to capture NASA's enigmatic ICESat-2 satellite firing laser beams at Earth. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-4-18 21:58

Mysterious Green Laser Beams Over Hawaii Came from Chinese Satellite

Mysterious green laser beams that appeared over the night sky in Hawaii have been pinned on a Chinese satellite.

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2023-2-12 20:29

This Landscape Art Uses AR Projection to Show Beams of Light

Photographer Reuben Wu has released the final chapter of his groundbreaking Lux Noctis project, which involves lighting large-scale landscapes with drone-mounted lights. Titled “An Electric Storm,” the digital artwork has an incredible physical installation that combines a print with AR light projection. petapixel.com »

2021-7-4 20:03

X-ray Beams Can Recover Lost 19th-Century Photos

There’s a new photo recovery technique that may help humanity recover some of the world’s oldest photographs that were previously considered to be damaged beyond repair. Researchers at the University of Western Ontario in Canada led by Madalena Kozachuk employed synchrotron X-rays and fluorescence imaging to analyze old 19th-century daguerreotype plates, which used iodine-sensitized silver-coated […] petapixel.com »

2018-6-28 21:19