Mosaic

Robotics

Pixelbot 3000: A robot 'printer' made entirely out of Lego

Pixel art uses small blocky details to make a larger image. Proving there’s nothing blockier than Lego, a YouTuber has created the Pixelbot 3000. Made entirely of Lego parts, the bot ‘prints’ pixel art using input from an AI image generator.

A section of the southern sky mosaic flipped onto its side – the dark lines indicate areas of the sky that were not imaged by TESS's cameras

Space

New mosaic of southern sky was shot by an exoplanet-hunting satellite

NASA has released an enormous mosaic of the southern sky, stitched together from images captured by the agency’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) over the course of its first year of science observations.

NASA has released a 680-gigapixel interactive mosaic of the Moon's north polar region that covers an area over a quarter the size of the USA (Image:NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University)

Space

NASA releases 680-gigapixel interactive mosaic of Lunar North Pole

NASA, using images taken from its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released a 680 gigapixel interactive mosaic of the Moon's north polar region with a resolution of one pixel to 6.5 ft (2 m).