NASA Wants to Send Your Artwork into Space

NASA is currently calling for artwork submissions to be carried along on its next space explorer, the OSIRIS-REx. They’re looking for any space-lover to send through an artistic expression of how the OSIRIS-REx’s mission of exploration is reflected in their own lives. Submissions will be saved on a chip aboard the spacecraft and will ride along as the craft travels to the asteroid Bennu to …

Students Build an Impressive Structure with a 3D-Printing Pen

Under the supervision of celebrated architect Kengo Kuma, a team of students from the University of Tokyo have built a series of complex structures using a specially-developed 3D printing pen. The pen binds larger acrylic rods with string-like filaments that are “drawn” in space. Unlike 3D printers, the pens allow for the construction of large-scale structures and the ability to adapt the design during the …

An Unprecedented Image of the Milky Way

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released the most detailed and expansive image of the Milky Way to date. It’s the culmination of two projects—the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL) and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)—and offers and unprecedented peek behind the space dust that usually blocks our view. Read more at the Washington Post and view the full, zoomable picture …