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Quadrocopters Light Show

50 Hummingbird Quadrocopters Used to Perform Unique Light Show

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50 Hummingbird Quadrocopters Used to Perform Unique Light ShowGuests and citizens of the Austrian city of Linz were able to witness 50 lights in the sky. Those were not aliens as some might think, but fifty quadrotors that were lifted into the air to present a synchronized light show. The...

Armed Telescope

Armed Telescope

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At the edges of the visible universe, 45 billion light-years away, sit some of the oldest known galaxies. How they formed and developed is a mystery, but a spectrograph installed on Chile’s Very Large Telescope—functional since March—should help astronomers find answers. The six-foot-wide, three-ton instrument contains 24 motorized robotic arms....