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Photographs of Dried Whisky Residue on the Bottom of Scotch Glasses
Photographer Ernie Button has a unique project called Vanishing Spirits in which he photographs the bottom of Scotch glasses once the whisky has evaporated way. The residue creates textures and colors...
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Time-Lapse Shows What Earth Looks Like to Astronauts on the ISS
We shared this time-lapse by photographer Bruce W. Berry yesterday in a post about NASA astronaut photography from the International Space Station, but we’d like to share about it a little more about...
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Underwater Volcano Photo Wins NASA’s March Madness-style Photo Tourney
March Madness 2013 came to a thrilling end yesterday with Louisville beating Michigan in the college men’s basketball national championship game. Another (less publicized) tournament selected a winner...
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A Glimpse at Where Camera Gear is Kept on the International Space Station
If you’re a photography enthusiast and ever have the good fortune of finding yourself floating around on the International Space Station, here are two words you should know: service module. Formally...
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Scientists May Do Quantum Entanglement Test with a 400mm Nikon Lens on the ISS
Albert Einstein once described quantum entanglement as “spooky action at distance.” The basic idea behind it is that certain things (e.g. particles, molecules) can interact with each other instantly...
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Time-Lapse Shows Three Years in the Life of Our Sun in Three Minutes
This beautiful video shows three years in the life of the Sun in three minutes. The photographs are shown at a pace of two photos for each day. Thus, there are a little over 2000 photos in this video...
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News Helicopter Camera Snaps Photo of Saturn While in the Air
If you’ve ever watched the evening news on television, you’ve probably seen photos and video captured by the powerful cameras on the station’s helicopter. Here’s something interesting: on a clear...
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Beautiful Photograph of a Hurricane… On the North Pole of Saturn
Photographs of storm systems as seen from airplanes or satellites aren’t too uncommon these days, but have you ever seen one that looks like this? Probably not, because this photograph is out of this...
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NASA’s Android-Powered Satellites Beam Down Smartphone Snaps from Orbit
Late last month, NASA launched Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket into space, and with it a trio of satellites powered, get this, by Android Phones. Part of the NASA project “PhoneSats,” the three...
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Satellite Photos Show What the Oklahoma Tornado Looked Like From Space
NASA has today released a series of images along with a video following Monday’s devastating thunderstorms that produced an F-4 tornado (winds between 166 and 200 miles per hour) that touched down in...
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$25 Space Camera: Raspberry Pi Camera Snaps Photos of Earth on a Balloon
Raspberry Pi‘s new Camera Module is starting to hit store shelves, and we’re starting to see some interesting photo experiments being done with the simple programmable camera kit. High altitude...
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A Mind-Bending Look at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Photo of the Universe
Check out this mind-bending video that talks about the “Hubble Ultra Deep Field” image captured by NASA astronomers nearly a decade ago — a photograph that some call “the most important image ever...
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Photographing Earth from the Cupola on the International Space Station
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...
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$25 Could Soon Buy You a Photograph of Your Face in Space
Up until now, the use of multibillion-dollar orbiting satellites has been extremely limited to space agencies and companies that, well, require satellites. But here’s a radical idea that could change...
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Company Plans to Send 28 Tiny Satellites Into Space to Collect Aerial Photos
There are a couple of different types of imaging satellites currently orbiting our planet. On one end of the spectrum are specialized satellites that gather very high-resolution imagery in which you...
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In Saturn’s Rings: A 4K Film Made Entirely from Real NASA Photographs
The tagline for the 2014 IMAX movie In Saturn’s Rings simply states: “This is Real.” And it’s a tagline that bears repeating to yourself over and over again as you watch the preview footage above. A...
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The Pale Blue Dot: A Portrait of Earth Shot From More Than 4 Billion Miles Away
Seeing as the Voyager-1 spacecraft has been in the news recently, here’s the story of a very special photograph that it took 23 years ago known as “The Pale Blue Dot”. In 1990, 13 years after...
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Photographs of Dried Whisky Residue on the Bottom of Scotch Glasses
Photographer Ernie Button has a unique project called Vanishing Spirits in which he photographs the bottom of Scotch glasses once the whisky has evaporated way. The residue creates textures and colors...
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Time-Lapse Shows What Earth Looks Like to Astronauts on the ISS
We shared this time-lapse by photographer Bruce W. Berry yesterday in a post about NASA astronaut photography from the International Space Station, but we’d like to share about it a little more about...
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Underwater Volcano Photo Wins NASA’s March Madness-style Photo Tourney
March Madness 2013 came to a thrilling end yesterday with Louisville beating Michigan in the college men’s basketball national championship game. Another (less publicized) tournament selected a winner...
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