A fantastic time-lapse video put together by photographer Knate Myers based on photographs taken from the International Space Station. Every photo was taken from the International Space Station. Wow!
View from the ISS at Night from Knate Myers on Vimeo.
Music by John Murphy – Sunshine (Adagio In D Minor)
Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth.
(h/t mashable)
Alex Rivest’s beautiful timelapse of the stars from low earth orbit, as viewed from the International Space Station.
The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station. from AJRCLIPS on Vimeo.
(via wired)
From the upcoming Special Edition Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle DVD comes a dramatic new video of a space shuttle launch shot by cameras mounted on the solid rocket boosters (SRBs).
This striking high-definition video begins with the shuttle launch and ends with the spent boosters parachuting into the ocean.
(via io9.com)
A new NASA video follows the fiery evolution of the moon, showing how its craters were created by asteroids and blazing flows of magma. These new insights into the formation of the moon come via NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Astronomer’s Paradise is the first episode of a Atacama Starry Nights timelapse movie series. The footage is taken from Cerro Paranal located in the Atacama Desert of Chile and home to some of the world’s leading telescopes.
Operated by the European Southern Observatory the Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located on the Paranal mountain and composed of four 8 m telescopes which can combine their light to make a giant telescope by interferometry.
Music:
Carbon Based Lifeforms – Arecibo
Extract from the album [ Twentythree ]
(via broadsheet)
Raul Oaida created this LEGO tribute to the end of the space shuttle era. He explains:
The launch took place from central Germany (easy flight clearance) and reached a max altitude of 35000m. A 1600g meteo balloon filled with helium was used alongside a GoPro Hero, Spot GPS and of course Lego Space Shuttle model 3367.
We launched it on the 31st of December 2011, the equipment was recovered via GPS tracking 240 km S-E from a remote area.
Equipment used:
1600g Weather Ballon
Rocketmodel parachute – slowing things down on the descent
Spot GPS – for recovery
GoPro Hero – video camera
Kodak Zx1 – video camera which took shit images I couldn’t even use
New Trent – external battery for the GoPro (broke down before leaving for Germany)
Handwarmers – keepin’ it warm at -50 Celsius
40mm Sytrofoam – building the box
Fishingwire – attached the shuttle by 5 wires
LED Beacon – in case of night recovery
Balsa wood – made the camera arm from it to obtain that filming angle.
Music:
Radical Face – Welcome Home
Richard Strauss – Also Sprach Zarathustra
(via thejournal.ie)
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” This is his answer.
(via vint.sogeti.nl)
14 year-old twin brothers Cary and Michael Huang have created an superb interactive visualization of the scale of the Universe. It traces the relative scale of things – from quantum foam to the observable universe.
Music: Frozen Star by Kevin MacLeod
(via abcnews)
Two Canadian teenagers sent a flag-waving Lego man into the upper atmosphere using a weather balloon and crafted this amazing video from the footage.
The Register reports:
Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, spent 400 Canadian bucks putting together their high altitude package: three stills cameras, one video camera and a GPS-enabled mobile phone stuffed in a styrofoam box under a helium-filled meteorological balloon.
(via The Register)
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.
Beautiful Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011.
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