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Time-Lapse: Earth

May 7, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter If you couldn’t tell, we love time-lapse videos… whether they’re made of photos looking up at the sky from Earth or looking down at Earth from the sky! This latest assembly by photographer Bruce W. Berry takes us on a tour [...]

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Cassini Discovers Titan’s Glowing Atmosphere

November 5, 2012

A pair of images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show Titan glowing in the dark. Titan never ceases to amaze. Saturn’s largest moon, it’s wrapped in a complex, multi-layered nitrogen-and-methane atmosphere ten times thicker than Earth’s. It has seasons and weather, as evidenced by the occasional formation of large bright clouds and, more recently, an area [...]

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Moscow At Night

April 10, 2012

Tracing a bright star upon the Earth, the lights of Russia’s capital city blaze beyond the solar panels of the International Space Station in this photo, captured by the Expedition 30 crew on the night of March 28, 2012. Remove this ad

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What is Airglow?

October 8, 2011

In many of the photos that we have featured recently from astronauts aboard the International Space Station, a glowing greenish-yellow band can be seen just above Earth’s limb. I’ve been asked before what this is, so I thought I’d explain it here. This is a phenomenon known as “airglow”. Remove this ad

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