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NASA Has Revived Hubble’s Most Heavily Used Camera

NASA is making significant progress on reviving the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in safe mode since early November after the synchronization of messages that control its instruments were becoming lost. Hubble was brought offline on October 25 after NASA scientists and engineers detected a loff of specific data synchronization messages. The team was focusing its efforts on…
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Macro Photos Reveal the Hidden Beauty of Seeds

Macro photography provides a window into details of the world that often escape (or are invisible to) the naked eye. Photographer Levon Biss used close-up photos to capture the incredible diversity of embryonic plant in his project The Hidden Beauty of Seeds and Fruits. …
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How to Create and Capture Stunning Ink Flow Photos

Have you wanted to capture your own ink flow photographs at home? Below, I’ll explain a few easy tips that make use of an inexpensive fish tank and a pot of ink or paint. As the paint is poured into the water a multitude of incredible shapes form which, when photographed…
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NVIDIA GauGAN2 AI Turns Sentences into Realistic ‘Photos’

NVIDIA’s GauGAN2 artificial intelligence (AI) can now use simple written phrases to generate a fitting photorealistic image. The deep-learning model is able to craft different scenes in just three or four words. GauGAN is NVIDIA’s AI program that was used to turn simple doodles into photorealistic masterpieces in 2019, a technology that was eventually turned into the NVIDIA Canvas app…
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Fully Loaded: The Complex Connection Between Guns and Cameras

“Why are guns and cameras so closely connected?” This is what I set out to explore and investigate recently through my own experience in film. Between starting the production and finishing it, one major event made this connection a lot darker. On October 21st, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed by a firearm on the set of “Rust” while standing behind the camera for a shot.
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Canon USA is providing 120 EF 400mm F2.8 lenses to expand Dragonfly Telephoto Array

Canon USA has announced that the company will provide technical assistance to Project Dragonfly, an international research team from Yale University and the University of Toronto, in its plan to expand the Dragonfly Telephoto Array. The Dragonfly Telephoto Array is a telescope concept designed to capture images of extremely faint structures in the night sky. It is believed that the…
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