Last week, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory marked its fifth year in space, generating one incredibly detailed image of the Sun every second, 24 hours a day.
Flare play, in flareness.
Last week, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory marked its fifth year in space, generating one incredibly detailed image of the Sun every second, 24 hours a day.
Flare play, in flareness.
A 10K (that’s right) timelapse of the favelas of Rio De Janiero, showing the frankly preposterous resolution of the 80MP PhaseOne IQ180 camera.
Each shot is composed of hundreds of 80MP still images.
Each individual frame measures 10,328 x 7760 pixels.
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A photo taken by Hubble and just published by NASA of the largest smiley face in the known Universe. The ‘eyes’ are galaxies, SDSSCGB 8842.3 and SDSSCGB 8842.4 and the ‘smile’ is actually an optical illusion caused by strong gravitational lensing.






Vincent LaForet’s extraordinary aerial shots of Las Vegas taken from a helicopter 2.7km above the city one dark evening late last month.
Previously: Gotham (La Foret’s night flight over Manhattan)

Dusky hammerheads by photographer Karen Glaser.

A 19 year old James Dean at Santa Monica City College in 1950.


Exodus by Marcus Lyon: globalisation, circumnavigation, the power of the individual versus states and corporations. That kind of thing.
Compare: the aerial work of Bernhard Lang, Klaus Liedorf and, well, Bernhard Lang.
Above: The World Trade Center in 1970; Sears Tower in 1970) Chrysler Building in 1929, New York Times Building in 1903, Manhattan Bridge in 1909; San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge in 1933; the Empire State Building in the early 1930s and Brooklyn Bridge in 1883.
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