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For the first time ever, a spacecraft has touched the sun. NASA has announced that the Parker Solar probe flew through the sun’s upper atmosphere and captured “coronal streamers” up close, something only ever previously seen from afar. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to examine the Sun by traveling closer to it than any spacecraft had ever done previously. Three years…

Science fiction has repeatedly promised a future filled with holographic 3D displays, but that fantasy has always eluded reality — until now. A startup says it has created a new “solid light” display that renders photos and videos in three dimensions. Photography and filmmaking have historically only existed in two dimensions without the aid of specialized headwear and viewing angles, but a…

The US Navy has shared photos and videos of a powerful new laser weapon system that it has been testing to take down both drones and small crafts. The latest reddish photos were captured with a special camera equipped with a short wave infrared lens and an optical filter, and they show the amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland firing the laser on December 14th at a training target on…

It was my first year in college. I was going out every day to teach myself photography, Harry Potter had just come out in theaters, and Canon entered the digital photography world with its very first fully backed flagship, the Canon EOS 1D. At the time, I was shooting on the Canon EOS D30, and didn’t see any way in sight of affording the 1D, but also didn’t think I really needed it either.