Met Museum Open Access Makes 375,000 Pieces Available for Free Claude Monet, Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies (1899) Renowned for its comprehensive collection of work that captures “5,000 years of art spanning all cultures and time periods,” New York City’s world famous Metropolitan Museum of Art has recently announced that 375,000 of its pieces in the public domain are now available without restrictions. As an update to a similar 2014 initiative, the new policy, called Open Access, allows individuals to easily access the images and use them for “any purpose, including commercial and noncommercial use, free of charge and without requiring permission from the Museum.” The available works represent a wide range of movements, styles, and mediums, and span iconic paintings by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh to centuries-old costumes and armor. You can access the unrestricted images through the Met’s website.
Boeing may have used a lobbying firm to plant an op-ed slamming SpaceX Boeing, the 102-year-old titan of the aerospace industry, is in a heated competition with SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket company, for billions of dollars in NASA contracts. As Boeing is seeking to secure that taxpayer funding — and the prestige of launching astronauts into space — the company might be secretly placing an opinion article that criticizes SpaceX in newspapers around the US. Both companies are trying to show NASA they can safely launch the agency's astronauts to and from the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, a roughly $8 billion competition the agency launched to spur private companies to build safe, cost-effective, American-made spaceships. Through that program, SpaceX won a $2.6 billion contract to develop its Crew Dragon space capsule, and Boeing has received $4.8 billion for its CST-100 Starliner space capsule. SpaceX/Flickr (public domain)
Networks of Genome Data Will Transform Medicine Breakthrough Technical standards that let DNA databases communicate. Why It Matters Your medical treatment could benefit from the experiences of millions of others. Key Players WorldWide Telescope - Microsoft Research Q. What is WorldWide Telescope? A. The WorldWide Telescope is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space-based telescopes to enable seamless, guided explorations of the universe. WorldWide Telescope, created with Microsoft’s high-performance Visual Experience Engine, enables seamless panning and zooming across the night sky blending terabytes of images, data and stories from multiple sources over the Internet into a media-rich, immersive experience. The WorldWide Telescope experience scales from a web browser all the way to multi-channel full dome in some of the world's most advanced planetariums.
For Kids and Families Latest Additions The Carbon Cycle Game: Travel along the marine carbon cycle and learn about the ocean. (Grades 9-12) James Webb Space Telescope deployment flipbook: Use paper and a binder clip to learn how the telescope will unfold like a Transformer once in space. The Trump Resistance Plan: A Timeline – Russia and President Trump Of the Jan. 6, 2017, meeting, when Comey told Trump about the infamous Steele dossier, Trump said: “He shared it so that I would think he had it out there” as leverage against Trump. Of the Feb. 14, 2017, meeting, when Trump said he hoped Comey could see his way to “letting Flynn go,” Trump said: “He said I said ‘hope’ — ‘I hope you can treat Flynn good’ or something like that. I didn’t say anything. But even if he did — like I said at the news conference on the, you know, Rose Garden — even if I did, that’s not — other people go a step further. I could have ended that whole thing just by saying — they say it can’t be obstruction because you can say: ‘It’s ended. It’s over.
SpaceX breaks record for commercial orbital rocket launches in a year This has been SpaceX's most incredible year yet for launching rockets. In 2018, Elon Musk's aerospace company achieved 20 successful launches. Those missions sent dozens of payloads into orbit, debuted two experimental Starlink internet satellites, and even shot a car past the orbit of Mars. The company still has one more launch planned for December. Musk was feeling good enough about SpaceX's 2018 progress in May that he said the company might "launch more rockets than any other country." We're More than Stardust — We're Made of the Big Bang Itself Transcript Anna Frebel: The work of stellar archaeology really goes to the heart of the "we are stardust" and "we are children of the stars" statement. You’ve probably heard it all but what does it actually mean? We are mostly made all humans and all life forms that we know of are made mostly of carbon and a bunch of other elements but in much lesser quantities.
NASA Posts a Huge Library of Space Sounds, And You're Free To Use Them Space is the place. Again. And SoundCloud is now a place you can find sounds from the US government space agency, NASA. In addition to the requisite vocal clips (“Houston, we’ve had a problem” and “The Eagle has landed”), you get a lot more.
Elementary GLOBE - GLOBE.gov Elementary GLOBE Elementary GLOBE is designed to introduce students in grades K-4 to the study of Earth system science. Each module of Elementary GLOBE includes: A science-based fictional storybook in which kids explore an aspect of the Earth system using their science skills.
Click y abre la ventana al extraordinario mundo del universo, donde las mentes inquietas dedican su energia para comprender los fenomenos del cosmos que despiertan la curiosidad de la humanidad desde sus inicios. Los adelantos cientificos y los nuevos sistemas de observacion permiten que paginas como The Space Place de manera sencilla, animada e interactiva logren atraer a los mas pequeños y se conviertan en intrumentos didacticos para la enseñanza de la ciencia y la astronomia. Este sitio web de la NASA que se encuentra disponible en dos idiomas: ingles y español; está lleno de multiples tareas, juegos, proyectos y una recopilacion de hechos asombrosos sobre la tierra, el espacio y la tecnologia que permiten la iniciacion en la explotacion del espacio exterior y el cosmos. Los proyectos más interesantes a explorar en esta página para quien desee iniciarse en la astronomía y que pueden ser de gran utilidad entre los 22 proyectos que ofrece el portal son: construye un habitat lunar y by zulyana83 Jun 15