Happy birthday, Margaret Hamilton!
Long before coining the term “software engineer”, Margaret Hamilton was a high school math teacher in Richmond, Indiana. Her career took a drastic turn, however, when she moved to Boston so her husband could study law. At the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT), Margaret worked in meteorology and defense before being tasked with developing guidance systems for the Apollo missions. Her work was crucial to the success of the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, which took Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon. Although she left NASA for the private sector in the 1970s, Margaret continued to innovate in her field. In 2016, President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A year later, she was honored with a mini figure from LEGO.
Image credit: NASA, LEGO
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La Factory come non è mai stata raccontata.
Nonostante la sua aura leggendaria, la Factory non rappresentava la stessa terra di libertà ed emancipazione per tutti quelli che la frequentavano. Andy Warhol la dominava, ne era il padre-padrone incontrastato. Le donne restavano ai margini: una a una passarono dall’adorazione per il loro “creatore” alla consapevolezza di essere state sfruttate. Per capirlo occorre ripercorrere le indagini di Ultra Violet, che raccontano un’altra versione della Factory e della controcultura newyorkese: quella di Edie Sedwick e delle altre ragazze, bollate per decenni come pazze e assassine, la cui voce è stata cancellata.
«Factory Girl» di Nadia Busato è il libro che presentiamo online su Scrittori a domicilio Giovedì 7 luglio alle ore 21.00 e Venerdì 8 Luglio live alla Rassegna Di Donne e di Libri in Oltretorrente... a Villa Ester, Casa del Quartiere in via Costituente alle ore 19.00
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Happy Fourth of July 🇺🇸
@NASAHubble's view of Jupiter in ultraviolet view gives researcher's new insights into the planet's atmosphere - in time for Independence day! The fifth planet from the Sun is by far the largest in our solar system, more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined.
A new storm churns up a lot of red, white, and blue on the gas giant. The red in this image is particles in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, the white spots are particles that absorb ultraviolet light, while the blue hue shows ultraviolet light reflecting from the planet’s surface.
Astronomers often look at celestial objects through various light spectrums to help study the chemical composition, atmospheric conditions, and elemental properties.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team
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Take in this ultra-spectacular ultraviolet Hubble view!
Thousands of galaxies shine here in ultraviolet light, in addition to visible and near-infrared.
These ultraviolet observations could help shine light on a mystery from our early universe known as reionization, in which the first stars and galaxies brought an end to the cosmic “dark ages” by ionizing a fog of hydrogen gas.
This split atoms into charged electrons and protons, and after the fog burned away, light could travel through the universe unobstructed. Astronomers aren’t sure exactly how this happened, but studying the ultraviolet light emitted by distant galaxies will give researchers new information.
Image credits: NASA/STScI/Harry Teplitz (Caltech/IPAC)
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