Aug 02
Woohoo! Party aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer! But wait, who invited MV-22 Osprey? Ugh… It’s not that I don’t like Ospreys, it’s just that sometimes they get so intense with the glow sticks. [Navy]
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Aug 02
If you want to get a good shot of lightning, it helps to have an amazing sense of timing. Barring that, you could just fake it by creating an entire miniature lightning storm that looks impossibly real, and shooting that instead. Same difference.
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Aug 01
Though most of us know that lightning bolts striking planes aren’t too much to worry about these days
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Aug 01
That beautiful image you see up there is our twin galaxy Andromeda. A neighbor that’s right next door, a mere 2.5 million light-years-away. And this new portrait was taken by an all-new telescope camera that’s got a whole life of stellar shots ahead of it.
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Jul 31
Ever visit Tokyo? No? No problem. Messing around in this ridiculous 180-gigapixel, 600,000-pixel wide panorama is practically the same thing, and you can do it right from this browser window.
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Jul 31
This is an awesome shot of a test F-35 zipping around California’s Edwards Air Force Base sent to us by a tipster. Can you imagine this buzzing by your window?
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Jul 31
Two Moons That Pass in the Night
Posted in: Today's Chili
This image shows the rare sight of Saturn’s moons Mimas and Pandora aligning in the night sky—and they couldn’t look more different.
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Jul 26
Being a human’s great, but sometimes it would be cool to experience the world from a different perspective. I’d love to be this little wasp, hitching a ride on the back of a damselfly.
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Jul 25
Every year the UK’s British Heart Foundation runs a competition to find the most interesting images produced by its researchers—and 2013 is a good, good year. Here are some of our favorites.
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Jul 24
And you thought your Hyundai had moves. This is the littoral combat ship USS Independence showing off its turning radius last week. Technically it’s a display of maneuvering prowess, but you can’t help but think it was also a chance for a bunch of able-bodied seamen to say wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
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