Tag: Cosmos

Leo Villareal’s “Interstellar” Generates the Visual and Sensorial Beauty of Code

A seductive and serene feeling pervades the artist's lighting-based artworks on view at NYC's Pace Gallery

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In New York-based artist Leo Villareal‘s new exhibition, Interstellar, the light sculptor captures the cosmos through code as his abstract and ever-moving LED wall installations recall snapshots of the galaxy. Even more impressively, the artworks evoke sensations only felt when standing before something infinite. The show—on view now until 29 April at NYC’s Pace Gallery—continues the artist’s collection of LED displays devised by custom-built software, extending his …

Useful Secrets Within a 4.2-Billion-Year-Old Asteroid

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Three tiny fragments were collected by a Japanese spacecraft in 2005 from a 4.2-billion-year-old asteroid known as Itokawa. Smaller than the diameter of a hair, these components contain information that could help prevent an asteroid colliding with Earth. Itokawa, a rubble-pile asteroid (created when “solid asteroids collide and the resulting fragments assemble into new structures”), is almost as old as the solar system itself. Held …

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An Astrophysicist on Why We Haven’t Heard From Extraterrestrials, Yet

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In a recent paper penned by Amri Wandel, the astrophysicist aims to explain why extraterrestrials still haven’t made contact with us here on Earth. Wandel dives into numbers to illustrate “the size and scale of the universe as we understand it today, the probability that life exists on other worlds” and more. Essentially the Great Silence—as it’s known to SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute)—comes …

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