The astronauts who work on the International Space Station (ISS) have some of the best views of our planet that can be imagined. Thousands of photos of that view are captured every year, but which ones are NASA’s favorites? The folks at the Earth and Science Remote Sensing Unit at NASA’s Johnson Space Center selected […]
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Image credit: Caldwell 78 (NGC 6541). This is a star cluster roughly 22,000 light-years from Earth. It can be viewed from the southern hemisphere using binoculars. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and G. dpreview.com »
2020-12-21 17:22
NASA has used sonification, the process of turning data into audio in order to perceive it in a new way, to reveal the 'sounds' of our universe. A video containing the generated audio was recently published by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. dpreview.com »
2020-10-08 21:44
NASA has a new project that turns space photos into sounds. Using sonification, images obtained from telescopes are turned into “music” that sounds like what you’d hear when your operating system boots up. petapixel.com »
2020-10-06 22:10
Sotheby's auction house is holding an online Space Photography auction that includes multiple NASA 'Red Number' photographs, as well as vintage silver gelatin and other chromogenic prints featuring spacecraft, astronauts, and more. dpreview.com »
2019-11-27 22:03
The aging Hubble Space Telescope has produced a new full portrait image of Jupiter, our Solar System’s stormy gas giant. NASA shared the image earlier this month, though it was captured by the space telescope on June 27. dpreview.com »
2019-08-30 18:58
Photographers use tools called flags to block and control light. NASA has detailed a new technology called a starshade that’s essentially a gigantic flag in space for doing photo shoots with space telescopes. petapixel.com »
2019-06-18 20:49
NASA has published the first 8K footage from space on its YouTube channel. The three minute video, filmed aboard the International Space Station, details "the in-space experience and see how the international partnership-powered human spaceflight is improving lives on Earth, while enabling humanity to explore the universe. dpreview.com »
2018-11-07 01:26
Back in August, NASA's love affair with Nikon cameras made the news when the space agency ordered 53 unmodified Nikon D5 DSLRs that it would use on the International Space Station and for 'training purposes' here on Earth. dpreview.com »
2017-11-14 00:39
NASA's relationship with Nikon is as strong as ever, judging by the fact that the space agency just placed a massive order for 53 Nikon D5 DSLRs. According to Nikon, NASA ordered the cameras as-is (no hardware modifications) and plans to use them for photography on the International Space Station, as well as astronaut training on Earth. dpreview.com »
2017-08-25 21:46
Motion Designer Christian Stangl and his brother, composer Wolfgang Stangl, just created one of the most beautiful odes to space exploration we’ve seen… and they did it without ever taking a single photograph. petapixel.com »
2017-05-19 23:29
TIME Magazine has published its annual selection of the 100 best photos of the year. The publication’s selection of images paints a picture of a year of recovery after 2020 that may not quite be what many hoped for.
Get ready for a serious photo history lesson. Starting November 17th, TIME Magazine will begin what they’re calling “an unprecedented exploration” of the 100 most influential images of all time.