Update: Both the thumbnail and the footage seen at 1:05 used in this video are from the Compliant Mechanisms Research group (CMR) at Brigham Young University. We apologize for not citing this correctly originally.
NASA is using origami to build a giant star blocker, in hopes of imaging distant worlds.
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