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Space Shuttle launch seen from a passing airliner

So that how a shuttle launch looks like from the air. Unfortunately, the video ends just short of the solid booster separation...

Lightning in slow motion

Balloon remains found on a southwest ranch

An object that just landed straight out from space:


And an image it took during its journey above our planet:



Done at the Oklahoma State University, see the rest of the images.

A drop in the void

All the water on Earth is claimed to fit in the small blue sphere on the left - and all the air in the sphere on the right.

From the Science Photo Library.

Futurama theme song from 1967 with dancing transistors

The original of the favourite series, Futurama's theme song is "Psyché Rock" by Pierre Henry.

Gamma error in picture scaling

Apparently there's a simple, hard to notice error in almost every image processing software. Its effects range from the slightly annoying, if you're just meddling with your holiday photographs, to the more serious, if you forget about it while trying to infer some science from images. That's why I note it here, as the author mentions NASA images as well - where the error was also present, although not necessarily in images used for science.

Gamma error in picture scaling by Eric Brasseur.