Category: space photography

NASA makes their entire media library publicly accessible and copyright free

Dunja Djudjic

No matter if you enjoy taking or just watching images of space, NASA has a treat for you. They have made their entire collection of images, sounds, and video available and publicly searchable online. It’s 140,000 photos and other resources available for you to see, or even download and use it any way you like. […]

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Apollo astronauts were darn good photographers

Dunja Djudjic

What do the names Walter Schirra, Walter Cunningham or Donn Eisele mean to you? Do you see them only as the astronauts from the Apollo 7 mission, or there’s something else? Other than being heroes and the makers of history – they also made great photos, some of which became iconic. Dutch designer Simon Phillipson issued a […]

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NASA’s new satellite offers stunningly high resolution images of earth

John Aldred

The GEOS-16 satellite lifted off in November last year. The satellite contains an Advanced Baseline Imager, which boasts images of earth at four times the resolution of any other satellite. Scientists, meteorologists and regular weather & science enthusiasts around the world have been itching to see those first images. Well, now they’re in and they […]

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How To Create The Cosmos in 8K with Practical Effects And A Canon 5DS

Udi Tirosh

If you see any visualization of the cosmos nowadays it is probably one of two: either computer generated effect or a stack of images from NASA public archive. Shanks FX took a different approach and created a bigger-than-8K cosmos creation sequence with practical effects, which is movie lingo for in-camera. I absolutely love the idea of creating […]

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NASA’s enhanced photo of Pluto shows rich color variations and crazy detail

Liron Samuels

You know how sometimes you take such an amazing photo that you have to share immediately, just to later realize that you have an ever more awesome version of it? That’s pretty much the case here with NASA’s insane surface photo of Pluto, taken by the interplanetary space probe New Horizons. NASA released the first […]

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Hasselblad Developed This Manual to Train Astronauts How To Take Photos in Space

Allen Mowery

We’ve seen a lot from NASA over the years, from original space exploration photos to intriguing experiments to some of the most incredible time-lapse footage you will ever watch.  Heck, we’ve even witnessed a moon landing Hasselblad go for three quarters of a million dollars!  But, we’re talking mere rocket scientists here, not esteemed photographers with […]

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