Stunning 360° Time-Lapse of the Milky Way
Astrophotographer Stéphane Guisard visited the Paranal Observatory in Chile with a Fisheye lens to shoot this stunning 360° x 200° view of the Milky Way galaxy rising over the horizon.
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Photographing Earth from the the International Space Station’s Cupola Module
NASA’s Image of the Day today is a photograph showing one of the best photo op spots to be found on the International Space Station: the Cupola module. The image (shown above) shows astronaut and flight engineer Chris Cassidy pointing a Nikon DSLR and 400mm lens out one of the Cupola’s windows to photograph some location on Earth 250 miles below him. The Cupola is a popular module to shoot Earth photos from due to its seven large windows that offer a fantastic view of the Earth spinning below. One of the 31-inch windows found in the Cupola is the largest window ever used in space. The fantastic photo site PetaPixel gives us an idea of what it looks like when astronauts are observing Earth from inside the Cupola:
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Interesting Things About Space As Shown By Chris Hadfield
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30 Stunning HQ Photos of Saturn
While we humans carry on with our daily lives down here on Earth, perhaps stuck in traffic or reading blogs, or just enjoying a Springtime stroll, a school-bus-sized spacecraft called Cassini continues to gather data and images for us – 1.4 billion kilometers (870 million miles) away. Since arriving at Saturn in 2004 NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has made several close flybys of Saturn’s moons, caught the Sun’s reflection glinting off a lake on Titan, and has brought us even more tantalizing images of ongoing cryovolcanism on Enceladus. Collected here are a handful of recent images from the Saturnian system.
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Ready To Have Your Mind Blown? The Material That Protects The Space Shuttle From Heat Is Amazing
Bring one of these bricks on a camping trip with your bros, throw it in the campfire for several hours then grab it barehanded out of the inferno like you’re Superman. Thanks to Business Insider for pointing out this video because even non-nerds would agree that it is incredible.
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Satellite Shoots Beautiful 6,000-Mile-Long Panoramic Photo from Orbit
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Mesmerizing “Ring of Fire” Eclipse Timelapse
On May 10th, 2013 an annular solar eclipse occurred at sunrise in Pilbara, Western Australia and photographer Colin Legg was on hand to capture this amazing time-lapse video.
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Commander Chris Hadfield Records Epic Version Of David Bowie’s Space Oddity IN SPACE!
This is definitely up near the top of the list of the most badass videos we’ve seen all year. Commander Chris Hadfield, best know for his awesome space photography and YouTube videos, recorded this amazing amazing amazing version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity while on the International Space Station. The views are spectacular and as if being a genius astronaut wasn’t enough, he also has a ton of musical and video production talent.
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Earth As Seen From Space [33 Photos]
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Photo of the Day: 1200 Mile Wide Hurricane Eye On Saturn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole. Scientists say the hurricane’s eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane are traveling 330 mph (150 meters per second). The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon. This image is among the first sunlit views of Saturn’s north pole captured by Cassini’s imaging cameras. When the spacecraft arrived in the Saturnian system in 2004, it was northern winter and the north pole was in darkness. Saturn’s north pole was last imaged under sunlight by NASA’s Voyager 2 in 1981; however, the observation geometry did not allow for detailed views of the poles. Consequently, it is not known how long this newly discovered north-polar hurricane has been active. [Source: NASA and Twisted Sifter]
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The Bahamas From Space [17 HQ Photos]
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Wait, NASA Drew A Giant What on the Surface of Mars?!
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50 Unbelievable Facts About Earth [Infographic]
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Photo of the Day: The Terminator Line
Explanation: No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night in this gorgeous view of ocean and clouds over our fair planet Earth. Instead, the shadow line or terminator is diffuse and shows the gradual transition to darkness we experience as twilight. With the Sun illuminating the scene from the right, the cloud tops reflect gently reddened sunlight filtered through the dusty troposphere, the lowest layer of the planet’s nurturing atmosphere. A clear high altitude layer, visible along the dayside’s upper edge, scatters blue sunlight and fades into the blackness of space. This picture actually is a single digital photograph taken in June of 2001 from the International Space Station orbiting at an altitude of 211 nautical miles. See the full size image here >> Additional photos:
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The Overview Effect: An Out-of-Planet Experience
The words “awe” and “awesome” tend to suffer from overuse, and people use them to refer to a television show, a pair of designer shoes or even a celebrity crush. Anyone who watches the 19-minute film “Overview,” from the terribly clever people at the Planetary Collective, will surely be reminded of the original definitions of those two words. The Planetary Collective released the film on the 40th anniversary of the iconic photograph of Earth taken from space referred to as the “Blue Marble.” Its intention was to explain the Overview Effect, a term first used in 1987 by space theorist and author Frank White to explain the life-changing and perspective-altering experiences that astronauts have upon seeing the Earth from space. The collective interviewed White, five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect and two philosophers. The astronauts describe looking down at the Earth and marveling at the colors and motion produced from shooting stars, dancing curtains of auroras, thunderstorms and lights from major cities, all of which render the blue marble “hanging there” on this star-covered black canvas alive and, well, awesome. Being outside of the planet and looking down on it is not only an overwhelming experience that reminds more »
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Another Great Time-Lapse Video of Earth Shot From The ISS
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Earth as seen from the International Space Station [HQ Photos + Video]
Astronaut Don Pettit spent more than a year on the International Space Station with a camera in his hand shooting some of the most imopressive visuals of Earth ever taken. Christoph Malin compiled the images taken from the station into time lapse video. You can watch it below and view screen shots from the video.
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99 Fascinating Vintage NASA Photos
Photo source: dailypicdump.com
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How Hubble Snaps Those Amazing Space Images
If you’ve seen an incredible image of deep space, chances are it was taken by the Hubble telescope. Here’s how it captures such amazing imagery.
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Photo of the Day: Getting Up Close And Personal With Jupiter
On February 27, 1979 Voyager 1 approached Jupiter and captured this double transit of Jupiter by moons Io and Europa. This photo was created from a 14-frame mosaic. Most of the data was captured in a 3-by-3 mosaic at around 11:00 on February 27, 1979, but gaps were filled with data taken an hour before and an hour later. Here’s a zoomable image to see the moons up close >> Photo via: BusinessInsider.com
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Aurora Borealis As Seen From Iceland [53 High Quality Photos]
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10 Brilliant HQ Photos of the Russian Meteor
Marat Akhmetaleyev, 31, was at the right place at the right time. Mr Akhmetaleyev had gone out to shoot some idyllic rural scenes when the meteorite blasted into view just where his camera was pointing. This incredible picture of the Russian meteorite was taken by the professional photographer who feared it was a nuclear bomb. Despite trembling with fear, Mr Akhmetaleyev instinctively started snapping away as the space rock lit up the sky. The 100,000-tonne space rock blitzes through the air before exploding with the force of 30 Hiroshima bombs.
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17 Mesmerizing HQ Photos of the Sun As You’ve Never Seen It Before
NASA created an extraordinary three minute video showing the results of their Solar Dynamics Observatory project. The observatory launched in 2010 and in those three years SDO’s data and imagery has blown everyone’s hopes and expectations out of the water. Here are images shot by the SDO that provide stunningly detailed views of the sun as we have never seen it before.
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CCTV Footage of Meteorite Flash and Shock Wave at the University of Chelyabinsk
Surveillance cameras in the university of Chelyabinsk captured various angles of meteoritic flashes and impacts of shock wave.
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Meteorite Explosion Sets Off A “Gold Rush” In Russia
On Friday, terror rained from the skies, blowing out windows and scaring people over an enormous swath of Siberia. But by Monday, for many people what fell from the sky had turned to pure gold, and it touched off a rush to retrieve the fragments, many buried in deep February snows.
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Heat Map Of Every Meteorite To Hit Earth Since 2300 BC
This is a nerd’s dream. The following map shows impact zones where scientists have found craters of meteorites, dating back as far as the year 2,300 BC. All of this is on one map that you can zoom in and interact with.
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Name That Space Rock
Very helpful with all your space questions. With the recent meteor/meteorite news, illustrator Tim Lillis of Narwhal Creative realized that he was confused about the differences between meteors, meteoroids, comets, and meteorites. So he designed “Name That Space Rock,” a handy chart that explains them all. Source: Laughing Squid Tips
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Time-Lapses of the Night Sky Over Death Valley
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Man Takes Stunning Photos of the Sun From His Backyard
Alan Friedman is a greeting card-maker by day and amateur astronomer once the night falls. These photos were taken right from Friedman’s backyard in Buffalo, NY using a small (3 ½” aperture) telescope with a Hydrogen Alpha filter and an industrial webcam to capture the surface of the Sun.
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Russian Meteorite Super Cut Compilation [RSVLTS Original]
You would have to be living under a rock to not have heard about the meteor impact in Russia this morning. Over 700 people were been injured in the sparsely-populated Chelyabinsk region from the impact. There are tons of videos floating around the web so we took the liberty of compiling the best of the best into this Russian Meteor Supercut.
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Photo of the Day: The Snow Covered Northeast From Space
The northeast got walloped by Nemo this past weekend which brought accumulations of at least 30 inches to five states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York. Now we can look at the record-breaking storm’s aftermath as a whole with this stunning image shot by NASA’s Tera satellite.
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Photo of the Day: Powerful Nor’easter ‘Nemo’ As Seen From Space
The U.S. East Coast is about to get romped by a massive winter storm comprised of two low pressure systems that are merging to create one large superstorm. The NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite captured this fascinating image at 9:01 a.m. EST, showing clouds associated with the western frontal system stretching from Canada through the Ohio and Tennessee valleys, into the Gulf of Mexico. The comma-shaped low pressure system located over the Atlantic, east of Virginia, is forecast to merge with the front and create a powerful nor’easter. The National Weather Service expects the merged storm to move northeast and drop between two to three feet of snow in parts of New England. See the full size image here >> Credit: NASA
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Earth To Receive Record-Setting Asteroid Fly On February 15th
Talk about a close shave. On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth only 17,200 miles above our planet’s surface. There’s no danger of a collision, but the space rock, designated 2012 DA14, has NASA’s attention. “This is a record-setting close approach,” says Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near Earth Object Program at JPL. “Since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s, we’ve never seen an object this big get so close to Earth.”
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111 Stunning Pictures from the International Space Station
About 205 miles over our heads is the International SPce Station flying by at about 17,239.2 mph. At this speed the ISS circles the globe once ever 92 minutes 50 seconds.
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22 Epic Images Of Earth Shot From Space
