One doesn’t have to work at NASA or SpaceX to explore the heavens. Telescopes have been publicly available for decades and many kids and adults have explored space at night. Exploring during the day brings a distinct challenge; the Sun makes it hard to see anything other than blue skies and trying to look at the Sun itself through a telescope is optical suicide. Self-proclaimed “space cowboy” Alan Friedman uses very basic technology to check out the sun during the day from his backyard in Buffalo, NY, in a way that highlights the beauty of the solar system’s star. He then converts into art, adding…

One of our missions is to help to educate the world about technology and science falls into the category as something that we want the world to know. It’s not our core but it’s a part of what drives that core. The video below is relatively old but utterly amazing in the way it simplifies local space. Worthy of a 10-minute watch. …