Fix your camera to a tripod and you can record graceful trails traced by the stars as planet Earth rotates on its axis. If the
Flying over Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier in a DC-8 research plane, scientists participating in NASA’s IceBridge mission made a startling discovery on October 14: a
The images shows a huge plume of volcanic ash blowing about 800 kilometers east and then northeast over Argentina. The plume from the eruption of
What makes this time lapse particularly amazing–because we’ve all seen plenty of time lapse videos of the night sky–is the four telescopes in the foreground.
Licancabur Volcano is located on the border between Chile and Bolivia. Photograph H. Machado
Base jumper Julio Munoz decided to stage just such a stunt with his motocross bike, and the results are predictably stunning and insane, although very
ESO Photo Ambassador Gerhard Hüdepohl has captured a rare sight: a green flash from the Moon, instead of the Sun. The photographs are very probably
The stars rotate around the southern celestial pole during a night at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in northern Chile. The fuzzy parts in the trails
This picture of the star formation region NGC 3582 was taken using the Wide Field Imager at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The image
This image from the Gemini South telescope in Chile captures a pair of galaxies locked in a graceful waltz that will eventually bring the two
