First Photo of Earth From the Moon
Photograph courtesy NASA/Lunar Orbiter 1
This photo reveals the first view of Earth from the moon, taken by Lunar Orbiter 1 on August 23, 1966. Shot from a distance of about 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers), this image shows half of Earth, from Istanbul to Cape Town and areas east, shrouded in night.
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Jillian Mitchell, Li River, Yangshuo
A stop motion based video about the northern lights. The video is shot in the northern parts of Norway, Finland and Sweden during autumn 2011, winter and spring 2012.
WOWOur buddy Cory Poole made this beautiful time-lapse of yesterday’s eclipse!
It’s made of 700 photos shot through a Coronado Solar Max 60 Double Stacked Hydrogen Alpha Solar Telescope — a fancy name for a solar telescope with a filter that lets you view the light from hydrogen atoms.
