Dazzling night skies by eleven

These new Saturn messenger bags are now available in my Thinx Shop on Zazzle.

These Orion Nebula messenger bags can be found in my Thinx Shop on Zazzle.

A dazzling light show over Crater Lake, an ancient volcanic caldera in Oregon captured by Brad Goldpaint.

Goldpaint on his series:

I drove to Crater Lake National Park on the night of May 31, 2013 to photograph the Milky Way rising above the rim. I’ve waited months for the roads to open and spring storms to pass, so I could spend a solitude night with the stars. Near 11pm, I was staring upward towards a clear night sky when suddenly, without warning, an unmistakable faint glow of the aurora borealis began erupting in front of me. I quickly packed up my gear, hiked down to my truck, and sped to a north facing location. With adrenaline pumping, I raced to the edge of the caldera, set up a time-lapse sequence, and watched the northern lights dance until sunrise. The moon rose around 2am and blanketed the surrounding landscape with a faint glow, adding depth and texture to the shot. The last image in the sequence above shows the route of the International Space Station (ISS) which flew over at 2:35am.

Watch the video on the biggest screen you’ve got for some serious goosebumps:

A big dose of awe brought to you by photographer Goff Kitsawad 

La Lune 1 and 2 by Christian Chaize

Chaize on his project:

We know the moon well…through storybooks, werewolf films, telescopes, planetariums, NASA photographs, charcoal drawings, rounds of cheese, and of course, in the sky. It occupies its familiar place in space, in legends, in our daily lives. Yes, we know the moon, though it may affect us in ways we don’t even recognize. And like the beach I often visit, like so many things taken for granted, I wanted to see it anew. I wanted to see it in detail. And I wanted to see it in grand dimensions.

The route was long and filled with hard won introductions, visits to observatories, experiments with various telescopes, lenses and cameras…at one point, I thought this new series should be made up of all my failures. But the subject was far and, after all, I was trying to “shoot the moon”. Over a year later, I finally arrived at the vision I’d hoped for. Using an assemblage of over 4500 photographs. I faithfully composed and enlarged them to arrive at a single image over two meters wide. Technically, I reached the limit of what one can presently shoot photographically from the Earth. The scale, the detail, the cropping…here, the moon is not so much floating in space, but rather, it is the space. Maybe, like me, you can now see it again for the first time.

Beautiful night skies by Look Me Luck Photography

(Via Vurtual)

The HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) has been documenting Mars from above since 2006. It uses false-color images to see features of the planet’s surface more clearly. Check out its archives for a strangely beautiful tour of an exotic place.

These images are some of the new additions to the Cassini HD app for iPad from our most recent update (now available in the ITunes store). Check it out for many more beautiful photos and amazing discoveries from NASA’s Cassini orbiter. 

These false-color images of a hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole can now be found in our Cassini HD app for iPad. Download our newest update in the iTunes store for more stunning images of Saturn and its moons.

Some of the new views of Saturn’s moons now available in our Cassini HD for iPad update in iTunes.

Inspirational space prints from the hairbrainedschemes Etsy store.

Elegant star maps by Stellavie Design

We’ve just added new images to our Cassini HD for iPad app. Look for the new update in the ITunes store for these and many more beautiful photos of Saturn and its moons.

Another day at the beach with collage artist Lynn Skordal