TagsTagsNASA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite, launched about 90 days ago, has produced an absolutely amazing super high resolution full-disc image of the Earth, produced in several passes over Central America. Click to enlarge You can also download a giant, incredibly detailed image (8,000 x 8,000 pixels) from NASA.
Nikon's new high-end DSLR camera, the D4 (successor to, oddly enough, the D3) is causing me to salivate, and I'm not even a pro photographer -- its target market. Check out the specs on this awesome state of the art imaging device: Digital SLR camera Nikon D4. (And yes, it's ...
This is the age of miracles and wonders. Tonight's case in point: the MIT Media Lab's new imaging system that takes exposures at a trillion frames per second, allowing researchers to actually visualize light traveling through space. Human beings are now looking at photons in motion. Unbelievable. This video shows a ...
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Here's a Sunday afternoon insanity break with gorgeous photography of Northern California's redwood forests, from Jesse Rosten. [Video]
Video, Short Film, Vimeo, Redwoods, California, Photography, Nature
Here's a video to watch if you find yourself getting too relaxed, by Nathan Mauger at Vimeo. [Video]
Hat tip to Phil Plait for pointing out this great video of last night's lunar eclipse by William Castleman, composed of individual telescopic photographs set to the music of Debussy. [Video]
Here's some exceptional Friday afternoon photography: the winners and runners up in the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. Ichneumon wasp compound eye and antenna base (40x). Credit: Charles Krebs Photography.
Washington DC's Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has announced that they set a new record for the highest Saturday Metrorail ridership last weekend, due to the Jon Stewart-Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear. Metro set a new record for highest Saturday Metrorail ridership on Saturday, October 30. Officials estimate ...
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Photography, Science
Quite a difference from the signs we usually see at Tea Party events, courtesy of LGF reader Carl Hoffman. Click the picture to start the slideshow... %%SLIDESHOW=/slideshows/20 101030RallyToRestoreSanity|http://little greenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/ZZ1FC D1E90.jpg%%
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Tea Parties, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Mongering, Photography
Some candy for your eyes to kick off a Friday evening open thread. According to the description at Vimeo, this was shot with a Canon 5D in South America, Europe and New Zealand. [Video]
An awesome iPhone hack that I'm definitely going to try, via Gizmodo: How To Turn Your iPhone Into A Microscope For Only $10. These odd images were all taken using an iPhone cleverly equipped with a 45x microscope. The best part though? You can add such an upgrade to your ...
Apple, Computers, iPhone, Cell Phones, Microscope, Photography
The ESA-NASA Planck spacecraft recently completed a year-long imaging project, surveying the entire sky in a range of microwave light frequencies from 30 to 857 gigahertz, and here’s the result — an oval projection, with the Milky Way as the bright center area. The cosmic microwave background left over from ...
Astronomy, Planck Telescope, Photography, Universe, Microwave
Amazon has terrific deals today on point and shoot digital cameras, with big discounts on little cameras. One of the best cameras on sale (50% off!) is the Canon PowerShot G11 10MP. I have the earlier G10 model and highly recommend it; it’s a great small camera that works well as ...
This astounding new photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a gigantic brain-like formation of gas clouds and star clusters in our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Phil Plait has an analysis of the photo with a bit of a surprise at the end: A vast, cosmic cloudy brain ...
Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, Space Brain, Photography, Universe
NASA’s Earth Observatory has released a high resolution image (10MB) of the Gulf of Mexico, showing the frighteningly gigantic scale of the oil spill disaster. Click for enlarged detail (Hat tip: Thanos.)
Oil, Offshore Drilling, disaster, Deepwater Horizon, BP, NASA, Photography
During the Gaza flotilla incident, there was a deluge of propaganda from pro-Palestinian sources claiming that Israel’s blockade was causing poverty and starvation in Gaza. But here’s an article and photo essay from noted pro-Israel shill the New York Times (ahem) with a perspective that might surprise you: Gaza, Through ...
Phil Plait points out some incredible super-high resolution photos from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing evidence for the presence of liquid water on Mars. The “gullies” in these images are only a few meters across. (More photos are here.) Click to embiggen…
Mars, Astronomy, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, HiRISE, Photography
Here’s video of Rachel Maddow interviewing NYPD Detective Greg Semendinger, who shot the newly released aerial photographs of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. [Video]
9/11, World Trade Center, Terrorism, 9/11 Attacks, Photography, NYPD
Here’s a midday open thread featuring some excellent high definition aerial photography by Leif Holand. (Looks great in full-screen mode.) [Video]
A great piece at the New York Times by Dennis Overbye looks at the latest research from the Hubble Space Telescope’s new Wide Field Camera 3, which is recording images from a time ever closer to the beginning of the universe itself: With Updated Hubble Telescope, Reaching Farther Back in ...
Astronomy, Milky Way, Galaxies, Photography, Space, Hubble Space Telescope
It’s a wonderful feeling to be able to inspire creativity in people, and this tribute by some right wing admirers is a great example. This must have taken some time and effort to produce! Truly I am blessed, to be such a large influence on their lives. [Video] Thanks for the plug, ...
Little Green Footballs, Calendar, Photographs, Photography, 2010
This really is the new golden age of astronomy. Now the three telescopic stars in this new age (Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer) have been joined by another awesome new tool: VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy). And the VISTA team is now releasing their first images, including this ...
Now available at Lulu.com in time for Christmas and the New Year — the Little Green Footballs 2010 Calendar, featuring 13 beautiful high resolution versions of photographs I’ve posted at LGF. It's $24.99, Lulu.com handles all the printing and shipping, I get 10 bucks, and they get the difference. Not ...
Little Green Footballs, Calendar, Photographs, Photography, 2010