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The world of light outside the space station
Fanciful colors of light are captured by astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS).
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Photos of melting ice are surprisingly beautiful but startling
Pictures as a warning of the melting of Antarctica are at an alarming level with the area of ice being rapidly declining.
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Polar bears learn to swim in the wild
A British photographer recorded images of a herd of Arctic white bears practicing long distance swimming.
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Photo 'hot': Geminid meteor shower 'visit' Earth
Update the images of the last meteor shower 2014 around the planet.
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Set of beautiful cloud images viewed from the International Space Station
The clouds are shaped like snow, when the waves are white on the ocean ... incredible images are only seen from the International Space Station (ISS).
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Bright light of aurora
Aurora is an optical phenomenon characterized by bright bands of different shapes but moving and changing continuously, looking like silk strips in the sky.
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Stunning photos taken from the ISS station
Please see the special photo, taken from the International Space Station (ISS) with the theme
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Set of brilliant photos showing off
Insects are the most widely distributed invertebrate on Earth, with more than 1 million species described.
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Photo: Manually watch the biggest moon in 20 years
On the night of 10/8, the Moon is closer to Earth than about 50,000km when it is at the farthest point from the Earth.
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Super moon shines all over the world
Astronomers all over the world admire the big and bright moon than usual, the so-called super moon phenomenon, on August 9 and 10.
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Watch meteor shower in the sky of Europe
The part of Swift-Tuttle's comet tail as it passes through the Earth collides with the atmosphere, forming bright meteor streaks in the meteor shower called Perseids.
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See the virtual aurora on the earth from the universe
The aurora is like giant and fanciful colored strips of silk dancing in the atmosphere as we look at them from the International Space Station.
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Earth through astronaut prism
Reid Wiseman, one of the three members of the new research team, was taken to the International Space Station (ISS), capturing images of Earth seen from space and images…
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The best photo of the earth and sky 2014
The international program of The World at Night project has just announced the winning photos in the 2014 global photo and sky photo contest.
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Earth through satellite images
The fertile corn fields, unstable land surface after landslides or tornado disasters are recorded faithfully and vividly through satellite images.