How do we put that data into a format so we can interpret it and use it?" "We're a culture of data we have so much data. "This is their tool for visualizing the data," McCarthy said. The large display offers viewers the ability to see these incredible details without having to lose the wide view. The screens show images of the sun captured at "twice the resolution of a standard high-definition television," according to the exhibit catalog.
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The images show the sun's turbulent surface, full of dark spots and twisting magnetic-field lines. "This is their tool for learning about the sun in real time." "We came in, and we saw a professor with some students - and they were watching this live feed of the sun," McCarty said. (Image credit: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)Īt the Smithsonian's Center for Astrophysics at Harvard, the pair found one of the most eye-catching pieces new featured in the exhibit: a wall-size display that plays continuous video footage of the sun, taken from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The images come from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. To cultivate a collection of unique tools for the exhibit, McCarty and her co-curator, Matilda McQuaid, head of textiles at the museum, visited different Smithsonian Institutes, and asked the people there about the tools they kept and the tools they used.Īt the Cooper Hewitt Museum, curators recreated a wall-size display of video of the sun, similar to one found at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "We keep getting more and more tools to fill it." She later noted that people "get very personal about tools there's an aspect of identity in them." "This is our toolbox," McCarty said, pulling out her own smartphone. There is a traveling dressing table from 1875 with tools for personal grooming writing-tool boxes from the mid- to late 1700s that contain quill pens and ink a sewing box a lithotomy surgical set from the 1830's, containing instruments designed specifically for removing and crushing stones from the kidney or bladder and finally, a MacBook Pro. There is also a tool kit used by astronauts aboard Skylab, the United States' first space station, adapted for a microgravity environment. A few of the boxes contain hammers, screwdrivers, saws and and wrenches. In the entrance to the exhibit is a collection of toolboxes. The box is similar to those used on Earth, but with some adjustments, like Velcro, to keep the tools in place in micro gravity. A toolbox used by astronauts aboard Skylab.
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