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What If All of Kepler’s Exoplanets Orbited the Same Star?
That's exactly the scenario shown by a mesmerizing animation called "Worlds" by Alex Parker -- a single system containing 2299…
What Curiosity Looks Like From 200 Kilometers Up
Here's a look down at Curiosity from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, orbiting approximately 200 km (125…
An Orbital Adagio: Nighttime Views from the ISS
People keep making these videos from ISS photography, and we keep loving them. Here's the latest, assembled by photographer Knate…
CGI Movie From 1963 Shows Satellite Orbit
In what may very well be the world's first computer-generated animation, this video shows the motion of a box-like "satellite"…
Water Balloons in Space
As part of his ongoing (and always entertaining) "Science Off the Sphere" series, Expedition 31 flight engineer Don Pettit experiments…
Smoking Wildfires Seen From Space
Wildfires continue to rage across the western United States, burning forests and property alike, and even the most remote have…
Lightning From Space!
[/caption] Here's an amazing shot of a flash of lightning within storm clouds over west Africa, captured from orbit by…
The View From Freedom 7
51 years ago today, on May 5, 1961, NASA launched the Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket carrying Alan B. Shepard, Jr. aboard…
Sky Candy: Southern Lights Over The Indian Ocean
Time for your daily dose of awesomeness from the ISS! Here's a time-lapse video of the Aurora Australis photographed by…
What Does Space Look Like From Space?
Pretty impressive, I'd say! This video is a compilation of different time-lapses taken from the ISS over the past several…