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This is a photo of an aurora occurring two and a half billion miles away. It’s a composite image of atmospheric activity over Uranus.  So, not a direct shot, in the purest sense.  But, in its way, no less real than an Instagram shot, or even this: This being the original “Pale Blue Dot” photo, [...]
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In 1990, at the request of astronomer Carl Sagan, astronauts aboard the voyager 1 captured an image of Earth from a distance of around 4 billion miles away. In the photograph, the "Pale Blue Dot," the Earth appears as a tiny dot aga... Read Post

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft (launched 1977) when it reached 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from Earth in 1990. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a tiny ... Read Post

By Felix Clay Published: May 19th, 2013 Polka Dot Images/Polka Dot/Getty Images Everyone likes eating out at restaurants, except I guess people who have been shot in restaurants or agoraphobics. But assuming you can go outside and h... Read Post