Images courtesy of The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Talk about a dream gig…shooting Earth as an outside observer from space.
1. River in China.
2. Looks like a distant galaxy or some crazy star cluster, doesn’t it? Wrong…that’s London at night, from space.
3. The Adriatic Sea
4. Antarctica
5. A coal mine in the Philippines, found courtesy of this story.
[via Treehugger]
These long-exposures of fireworks are rad! And they are even cooler if you make sound effects out loud while looking at them. FWSHSHHHH
Create Great Light Painting Imagery Using Fireworks | DIYPhotography.net
HELL YES.
Photographer Tim Mantoani has photographed photographers with their photographs in a series entitled “Behind Photographs,” which is currently on exhibit at the ongoing Month of Photography Los Angeles event.
Go ahead, try to use photographer/photograph/photography more frequently in one sentence; I don’t think it’s possible.
[via NPR]
![Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar [via boston.com].
This object is a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. 7,000 light-years distant from us, the soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometers tall. Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighbourhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas. The tower may be a giant incubator for those newborn stars. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a band of massive, hot, young stars [off the top of the image] is eroding the pillar. The column is silhouetted against the background glow of more distant gas. The bumps and fingers of material in the center of the tower are examples of stellar birthing areas. These regions may look small but they are roughly the size of our solar system. The blue colour at the top is from glowing oxygen, the red color in the lower region is from glowing hydrogen. This image was taken in November 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA) More (see this on Google Sky) #](http://26.media.tumblr.com/mVgpnzDSyhmbpq7000VaXCMUo1_400.jpg)
Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar [via boston.com].
This object is a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. 7,000 light-years distant from us, the soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometers tall. Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighbourhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas. The tower may be a giant incubator for those newborn stars. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a band of massive, hot, young stars [off the top of the image] is eroding the pillar. The column is silhouetted against the background glow of more distant gas. The bumps and fingers of material in the center of the tower are examples of stellar birthing areas. These regions may look small but they are roughly the size of our solar system. The blue colour at the top is from glowing oxygen, the red color in the lower region is from glowing hydrogen. This image was taken in November 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA) More (see this on Google Sky) #
These are some of the most striking images I’ve ever seen [from Boston.com].
This is fantastic!
An amazing photo by Todd Heisler, for the NY Times.
New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly fired his service revolver at a target known as the “Thug” in a demonstration at One Police Plaza in connection with an announcement that the familiar target will be replaced by an updated version.
![“Dust”, a project by Ujin Lee and Tom Edwards.
[via Today & Tomorrow]](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq6twagBIF1qzocn7o1_400.jpg)
![The best photos of 2008 [via boston.com].](http://29.media.tumblr.com/mVgpnzDSyhmbkhkyVzV3MJJqo1_400.jpg)
