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This is the first InSight lander’s photo from Mars

Nov 27, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

On 26 November, NASA’s InSight lander arrived successfully on Mars. It landed, opened its solar panels to recharge the batteries – and sent in the…



NASA releases satellite imagery showing massive scale of the “Camp Fire” in California

Nov 15, 2018 John Aldred

The Camp Fire, named after the Camp Creek Road where it originated, is the most devastating wildfire in California’s history. Beginning on November 8th, Camp…



It costs over $130,000 to deliver this $23,000 Nikon kit to the ISS

Nov 15, 2018 John Aldred

The International Space Station holds a whole lot of camera gear. Especially Nikon camera gear, as a recent tweet from astronaut Alexander Gerst illustrates while…



NASA releases the first 8K video from space

Nov 6, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

We’ve already seen some stunning footage and photos from the International Space Station (ISS). But now, NASA’s had the science “scaled up” and has published…



This photo of the solar coronal mass ejection shows just how small the Earth is

Aug 15, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

Photos of space and from space never cease to amaze us. And more often than not, they remind us just how small we are. In…



What’s it like to take photos from space? Let the astronaut tell you more about it

Jul 30, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

Chris Hadfield is a retired Canadian astronaut who was on three spaceflights and is now back on Earth. As if that weren’t cool enough, he…



The longest total lunar eclipse of the century is coming this month to turn the moon red

Jul 13, 2018 John Aldred

We’ve seen some pretty cool lunar events already this year, with two supermoons, a blue moon and one total eclipse back in January. Now we’re…



This is how (no longer a planet) Pluto looks like in infrared

Jun 14, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

It was three years ago when NASA shared the first image of Pluto taken with a camera named Ralph. An enhanced image showed us rich…



This is what the setting moon looks like through telescopic lens

Jun 6, 2018 Dunja Đuđić

Some photographers use lens compression to make the Moon look huge (this photo by Eric Paré came to my mind). But with a giant telescopic…



Weather satellite releases incredible time-lapse photos of the Earth

Jun 2, 2018 Chad Verzosa

Looking at pictures of our own planet isn’t really a big deal anymore. But witnessing high-definition timelapse of clouds and even wildfires from space? Now that’s…