This very long exposure shot of the Earth was captured by astronaut Don Pettit, who spent time aboard the International Space Station during Expeditions 30 and 31. Numerous images of 30 second exposure were captured and stacked together to create this image, which presents a 15 minute exposure.
Personal hygiene doesn’t take a break in space, so you would have to put in quite some effort to maintain it. In this video, astronaut Karen Nyberg shows how she washes her long hair in space. It is seemingly quicker than the time earthlings might take, but then we don’t have the luxury of having hair stand straight while we wash them.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has done some amazing things on the International Space Station, and we have all enjoyed watching the simple experiments he did in space. This video is a revised version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and makes it the first ever music video in space. Commander Hadfield returned to Earth a few hours ago.
Space. It makes everything weird/awesome. Thankfully, we have astronaut Chris Hadfield to demonstrate the effects aboard the ISS.
Going on the trail of stars from space, astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station captured these beautiful long exposure shots of star trails as seen from the ISS. Don says the photographs represent a time exposure of 10 to 15 minutes, but since modern cameras allow at best a 30 second exposure, these images we see are a result of a stack of multiple 30-second exposure images stacked together.
Everything looks awesome in space. Here’s what an air bubble in a drop of water looks like aboard the International Space Station.
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A time lapse captured from the International Space Station as it orbits the Earth at night.
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While on Earth, it would be near impossible to play baseball against yourself unless you happen to be the Flash. At the International Space Station, this is just and added facility for astronauts, as demonstrated by Satoshi Furukawa in this video.
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These images captured by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoili aboard the International Space Station show the UK in a whole new light. It is enchanting to see how the isles look at night, and how well the cities shine through.
Via DailyMail
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station witnessed this unique and beautiful aurora australis over the southern Indian Ocean last month. Auroras occur when energetic ions from the sun collide with oxygen and nitrogen in the upper atmosphere, exciting these particles to an energy state where they emit light. The aurora borealis occurs near the north pole, while the aurora australis occurs near the south pole. This aurora is unique because it was relatively far from the southern pole. The green aurora probably occurred due to the large energy ejection from the sun on May 24.
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