This mouth-watering image of Saturn was captured by the Cassini spacecraft at a distance of 750,000 miles. That's enough to get it all in the frame. Actually, this is a composite of pictures taken over a four-hour period...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/13/Beautiful-Saturn/MIT physics professor Edward Pickering was an earl... ...ofessor Edward Pickering was an early advocate of astrophotography and also had a relatively enlightened (for the ti...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/23/The-Women-Who-Mapped-the-Universe-And-Still-Couldnt-Get-Any-Respect/(YouTube link) PBS's Off Book series looks at the many ways science and technology allow us to see things we aren't going to see naturally. What's more, those things can be amazingly beautiful! This video was produced...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/29/seeing-beyond-the-human-eye/Did you see the transit of Venus this week? Even if you did, you didn't see it like the joint US-Japanese Hinode space mission did! But we can see the amazing picture it took. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/08/the-transit-of-venus-close-up/This spiral galaxy is named M101, but those who live there probably have a better name for it (after all, we call our galaxy the Milky Way). The lovely picture is a composite of images taken by the Hubble, Spitzer, Chand...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/30/rainbow-pinwheel-galaxy/(YouTube link) An "image enhancement engineer" explains how he cleans up images of outer space so we can make out the details. His most common challenge? Photobombers. -via Buzzfeed...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/02/01/fixing-astronomy-pictures/
