Yesterday, Google announced Project Glass, which has the purpose of creating glasses that can provide an augmented reality. These glasses, at least in the prototype shown by Google, are composed of a frame similar to the one of ordinary glasses with a display near the right eye. An operating system sends real-time various information to the users depending on what they’re doing.
Many astronomers have worked on the images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, yet only a fraction has received special attention and who knows how many others are very interesting but are virtually unknown. For this reason, two competitions were organized to involve the public in a kind of treasure hunt to search for the most beautiful space images.
The partners who sponsored the YouTube Space Lab Contest have announced the winners. At its start in September 2011, YouTube, NASA, ESA and other partners such as Lenovo asked students aged between 14 and 18 years to devise an experiment to be carried out in the International Space Station. Two experiments were chosen from over one thousand finalists to be carried out on the International Space Station and broadcast through a live streaming on the Internet.
