First View of Earth from Moon
The world’s first view of Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon. The photo was transmitted to Earth by the United States Lunar Orbiter I and received at the NASA tracking..
View ArticleYemen and Saudi Arabia from the ISS, photographed by astronaut Barry “Butch”...
Astronaut Butch Wilmore shares these spectacular images of Yemen and Saudi Arabia seen from the International Space Station. Tennessee native Barry “Butch” Wilmore has been aboard the International...
View ArticleThis Awe-Inspiring Time-Lapse Video Reveals Auroras and Earth From Space
Watch Earth roll by through the perspective of ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst in this six-minute timelapse video from space. Combining 12 500 images taken by Alexander during his six-month Blue Dot...
View ArticleWhat Holiday Lights Looks like From Space
Changes in light patterns during Christmas in the United States and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in the Middle East are visible from space. Satellite observations show that light intensity...
View ArticleFibrils Flower on the Sun
When does the Sun look like a flower? In a specific color of red light emitted by hydrogen, as featured here, some regions of the solar chromosphere may resemble a rose. The color-inverted image was...
View ArticleMillimeter-sized stones formed our planet
Fragments of asteroids regularly land on Earth as meteorites. If you examine such a find, you can see that it comprises millimetre-sized round stones, known as chondrules. These small particles are...
View ArticleLonely galaxy ‘lost in space’
This NASA/ESA HUbble Space Telescope image shows galaxy NGC 6503. The galaxy, which lies 30,000 light-years away is at the edge of a strangely empty patch of space called the Local Void. Credit: NASA,...
View ArticleThe Light, the Dark, and the Dusty
This colorful skyscape spans about three full moons (1.5 degrees) across nebula rich starfields along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy in the royal northern constellation Cepheus. Near the edge of the...
View ArticleWatch 60 years of space junk accumulate in 1 minute
There are about 20,000 known pieces of space debris are currently orbiting the Earth.It all begins in 1957 when the Soviet Union launches Sputnik, a 58.5-centimeter-wide ball emitting radio pulses. A...
View ArticleAntarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
Section of rock coloniszed by cryptoendolithic microorganisms and the Cryomyces fungi in quartz crystals under an electron microscope. Credit: S. Onofri et al. European scientists have gathered tiny...
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