Attila Nagy, Author at Gizmodo

Helicopter Sparks Draw a Beautiful Galaxy on the Night Sky

It is always a pleasure to see the Kopps-Etchells Effect in such perfect form. The sparks from this U.S. Marines helicopter form a starry ring around the edge of the blades—a the result of static electricity created by friction between the dust and the metal blades moving through the air. From the official U.S. Marines…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 31 '15

These Pretty Vortices Make This Super Hercules a Magical Aircraft

Feeling dizzy? These amazing vortices were formed by the MC-130J Commando II Special Operations tanker aircraft during its flight to the Kadena Air Base in Japan on March 19th. Three variants of the C-130J Super Hercules aircraft were recently delivered to U.S. military operators from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. [Andrew McMurtrie/Lockheed Martin]

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 31 '15

Check Out Three Amazing Rocket Launches That All Happened in One Day

What a busy weekend for space exploration. There were three successful lift offs around the world, including two Soyuz launches from opposite sides of the Earth: Friday, 19:42 GMT (3:42 p.m. EDT): Liftoff of the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (pictured above and below), with Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko and Scott…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Mar 30 '15

The Dying Aral Sea Is Like an Abstract Depiction of Human Stupidity

This beautiful satellite image shows one of the most saddening long-term natural disasters on Earth. The black patch in the upper left corner is the remaining body of the Aral Sea, located on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia—which has lost around 90 percent of its water volume since 1960 because of…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 27 '15

These Are the Most Beautiful Science Labs in the World

Who said that laboratories, research centers and other science institutions have to be boring places? Believe me, architects are doing their bests when it comes to designing the headquarters of such facilities. The following 22 images prove that I am right. Technical Area 3 of Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is one of the largest…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 25 '15

We Is Here! Relive The Last Moon Mission In Its Entirety

If you are fond of the Apollo project, then you’ll love this site Ben Feist has been building for years—which is now online in its very early alpha stage. Apollo17.org is a highly addictive, interactive, real-time exploration of the entire Apollo 17 Mission, based upon official NASA footage and the transcription of radio transmissions. In…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Mar 25 '15

This Air Force Training Scene Could Be From a Dystopian Future

This photo of an emergency management technician in his hazmat suit gives me goosebumps. It looks like he’s the last survivor of a derelict spaceship, preparing for the last clash with the hostile alien life form that killed all his crewmates. Or maybe just an actor in a movie where that happens. What we see…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 24 '15

Check Out This Rare Smoke Ring Created By a Missile Launch

A US Air Force photographer captured a perfect smoke ring during a missile launch today, an awesome phenomenon I’ve never seen during a rocket launch before. The unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile was launched at 3:36 a.m. PDT, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The missile was randomly selected to test and evaluate…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 23 '15

These Huge Beer Keg Tanks Will Study Cosmic Explosions

Located 13,500 feet above sea level on the slopes of Mexico’s Volcán Sierra Negra, a new scientific tool comprised of 300 huge tanks holding 55 million liters of water, will soon detect the highest energy photons ever observed. The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory was inaugurated a few days ago, March 20, and…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 23 '15

Scientists Use This Laser Flower Instead of Nuclear Explosions

It might look like something out of a nightclub, but this so-called Wide-angle Optical Multi-channel Probe is straight from the research halls of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. You’d be entitled to ask why they were in possession of such a piece of kit. So here’s a brief explanation of what it can do: This…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 23 '15

A Badass Way To Kickstart a Hawaiian Weekend

This soldier is running off the back of a CH-47F Chinook helicopter during a simulated combat dive mission on the Hawaiian shoreline. Even if it’s hard work, I’d like to be him — and leave behind these screens, and keyboards, and Interwebz. [Lance Cpl. Brittney Vella/U.S. Marine Corps/DoD])

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 20 '15

Today’s Solar Eclipse in 22 Stellar Photos

This morning, a total solar eclipse was visible from the Faroe Islands and Svalbard, Norway, and a partial solar eclipse from many parts of Europe, Northern Africa and Northern Asia. These stellar photos shows the astronomical event that darkened the skies. View of the partial solar eclipse as viewed through the viewfinder of a digital…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Mar 20 '15

Spectacular Night Photos of the New Puma Helicopter

These night photos of an AF Puma Mk2 helicopter being loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, illuminated by runway lights at Brize Norton, the largest station of the Royal Air Force, are simply too good to handle. The RAF’s latest Puma helicopter is being deployed for the first time on operations in support of…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 18 '15

Why Don’t We All Just Stop Staring At Each Other’s Screens?

One of the more annoying things about public transportation is that you can rarely maintain any sense of privacy when using your gadgets. It can be maddening when you have to work or communicate and someone keeps looking at your notebook’s screen. Singer-songwriter James Grande had a particularly irksome traveller sitting beside him during one…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 18 '15

The Fantastic Wrist Gadgets That Came Way Before the Smartwatch

Humans have been putting technology on their wrists for a long time—and not just to tell the time. The Apple Watch and others are just the latest in a long line of wrist-borne devices, so here’s a brief history of “watches” that were smart for their time, too. An AK-39, a German pilot and navigator’s…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 17 '15

The Largest Spiral Escalator Ever Built Just Opened In Shanghai

Japanese firm Mitsubishi Electric is the only manufacturer of spiral escalators in the world—but there aren’t many. Now, a shopping mall in Shanghai has opened up two new iterations, each of which reach seven stories up into the building. Spiral escalators are still fairly rare. You can find a few in the U.S. at Caesars…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 17 '15

There’s a Slice of 70s Pop Music in This Photo From the ISS

If you look closely at this photo of U.S. Astronaut Terry Virts, you can discover a neat little phenomenon that looks like a slice of 70s pop in space. We see the flight engineer of Expedition 42 on the International Space Station in the multi-windowed Cupola on December 2nd 2014, with the sun rising over…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Mar 17 '15

This Photo of a Russian Cosmonaut Looks Like a Renaissance Painting

This photo of Cosmonaut Elena Serova taken by NASA’s Bill Ingalls on March 12th 2015 is a wonderful example of the so called Accidental Renaissance. What is Accidental Renaissance? When a press photograph’s remarkably well composed by using the Golden Ratio, and the figures, the poses and the lights are so beautiful, that the whole…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Mar 16 '15

Relive the Internet of the 1990s in 6 Gifs

Thirty years ago, on March 15, 1985, the first .com domain name—symbolics.com—was registered by the technology company Symbolics, marking the birth of the commercial internet. But things started heating up in the 1990s. Click back to those days with these nostalgic gifs. 1985. When Back to the Future opened in American theatres and ended up…

Tech News Attila Nagy Mar 14 '15

This Neat Map of ISS Shows Where AstroSamantha Takes Her Space Photos

Geotagging on the International Space Station? Almost! This interactive map collects and pins all of ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti‘s gorgeous orbital photos. Created by Thinglink user Massimo, it sorts AstroSamantha’s Twitpics into each of the segments and modules of the ISS to show you where each of them was taken. Just hover your mouse over…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy Mar 13 '15

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Helicopter Sparks Draw a Beautiful Galaxy on the Night Sky

These Pretty Vortices Make This Super Hercules a Magical Aircraft

Check Out Three Amazing Rocket Launches That All Happened in One Day

The Dying Aral Sea Is Like an Abstract Depiction of Human Stupidity

These Are the Most Beautiful Science Labs in the World

We Is Here! Relive The Last Moon Mission In Its Entirety

This Air Force Training Scene Could Be From a Dystopian Future

Check Out This Rare Smoke Ring Created By a Missile Launch

These Huge Beer Keg Tanks Will Study Cosmic Explosions

Scientists Use This Laser Flower Instead of Nuclear Explosions

A Badass Way To Kickstart a Hawaiian Weekend

Today’s Solar Eclipse in 22 Stellar Photos

Spectacular Night Photos of the New Puma Helicopter

Why Don’t We All Just Stop Staring At Each Other’s Screens?

The Fantastic Wrist Gadgets That Came Way Before the Smartwatch

The Largest Spiral Escalator Ever Built Just Opened In Shanghai

There’s a Slice of 70s Pop Music in This Photo From the ISS

This Photo of a Russian Cosmonaut Looks Like a Renaissance Painting

Relive the Internet of the 1990s in 6 Gifs

This Neat Map of ISS Shows Where AstroSamantha Takes Her Space Photos

Before ‘Witch Hat,’ Kamome Shirahama Blessed Us With a Hilarious Romp About Gals Being Pals

Meta Axes Contractors Who Had to Review Explicit Video From Smart Glasses

World’s Slowest Rocket Company Suddenly Wants to Churn Out 60 Rockets a Year

Lego’s May Releases Are Swooshing In

Buying Prescription Smart Glasses Might Not Be Such a Good Idea After All

Spirit Airlines Is Reportedly Moving Forward With Plan to Shut Down

Trump Resurrects Keystone Pipeline Killed Over Climate Concerns

The Old Republic Reigns Supreme in Hasbro’s New ‘Star Wars’ Figures

Everything You Missed From Elon Musk’s Testimony in the OpenAI Trial

New FCC Satellite Rules Could Improve Starlink Capacity to a Surprising Degree

The Best Tech Gifts for Mother’s Day 2026

Asus’ Dual-Display Gaming Laptop Will Ruin Your Single-Screen Lifestyle

Steam Controller Review: Trackpads Change Everything for PC Gaming

Soundcore Space 2 Review: A Shockingly Stellar Value for Budget ANC Wireless Headphones

Anker’s UV Printer Can Handle Almost Anything… If You Know What You’re Doing

HP’s EliteBoard Keyboard-Computer Proves We Can Stick a PC in Anything

Sleep-Tracking Earbuds Didn’t Fix Me, but They Did Open My Eyes

I’ve Tested a Lot of Bad Smart Glasses and These Are the Worst Yet

Roborock’s Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Is the Ultimate Robot Mop—If You Don’t Have Corners or Walls

Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen