Out of this world: incredible photographs taken from space
- The incredible images taken in space by orbiting Space Shuttle astronauts and those aboard the International Space Station reveal the Earth in astonishing clarity.
Countries and entire continents are captured in breathtaking detail. Cities sparkle like diamonds, while some of the planet's greatest natural wonders are brought into staggeringly sharp focus.
In other photographs, weather and atmospheric phenomenons appear in exceptional and sometimes alarming detail. And beyond our world, the sun and the moon appear in graceful close-up.
Click through the gallery to launch a spectacular collection of photographs taken out of this world.
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Winter weather - A winter storm affecting the US East Coast is seen in a NASA picture taken from the International Space Station, 2016.
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Hawaii - Hawaii's Big Island, anchored in a vivid blue Pacific Ocean.
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Diamond ring - The sun rises spectacularly over the edge of the Earth.
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The Northern Lights - Aurora borealis, better known as the Northern Lights, are one effect of energetic particles, which can speed out from the sun both in a steady stream called the solar wind, and due to giant eruptions known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
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Typhoon Maysak - Typhoon Maysak is seen as it strengthens into a Category 5 hurricane, 2015.
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Nightfall over Iberia - The Iberian Peninsula at night, showing Spain and Portugal in sparkling form.
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Above the Middle East - The River Nile and Sinai Peninsula revealed in breathtaking clarity.
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Dust storm - A panoramic view of most of the length of the Red Sea as a dust plume surges out from Egypt towards Saudi Arabia.
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Lake Ontario - Late summer plankton blooms across much of lake Ontario, 2013.
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Hurricane Patricia - Hurricane Patricia, a Category 5 storm, is seen approaching the coast of Mexico in 2015.
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Moonrise - A crescent moon rises over the cusp of the Earth's atmospshere.
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Seas and oceans - The sun reflects off the oceans. About 71% of the Earth's surface is water-covered.
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Chaparrastique volcano - Smoke pours from the Chaparrastique volcano in El Salvador, 2013.
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The aurora borealis over the US Midwest - The aurora borealis shimmers over the US Midwest as seen from the International Space Station as it passes over Nebraska, 2012.
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An atmospheric moon - The moon lends perspective to this image of the Earth as it transitions into the orange-colored troposphere, the lowest and most dense portion of the Earth's atmosphere. The troposphere ends abruptly at the tropopause, which appears in the image as the sharp boundary between the orange and blue colored atmosphere. The silvery-blue noctilucent clouds extend far above the Earth's troposphere.
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Mount Pavlof eruption - The 2016 eruption of Mount Pavlof. The stratovolcano is located on the Aleutian Range on the Alaska Peninsula, about 625 miles southwest of Anchorage.
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Scratching the surface - From this height Finger Lakes, in New York, appears like torn pieces of paper.
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Docked in space - The International Space Station is seen docked with the space shuttle Endeavour, 2011.
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Mount Etna eruption - Italy's Mount Etna, one of the world's most active volcanoes, streaming ash after it erupted in 2013.
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The moon and the International Space Station - The International Space Station flies past the moon in 2012.
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9/11 from space - A smoke plume rises from Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001.
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A social media star - A 2011 image by astronaut Ron Garan aboard the International Space Station features a shooting star.
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Frozen in time - A gyre (a large system of circulating ocean currents) frozen into the ice in Newfoundland, Canada.
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The US capital - Washington, D.C., with Andrews Air Force Base visible at the lower left of the image.
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Discovering Morocco - The space shuttle Discovery seen from the International Space Station with the southwestern coast of Morocco in the background, 2011.
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A Persian perspective - The city of Shiraz, located in southwest Iran.
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Remote Russia - The vastness of Lake Baikal, in Siberia, can be appreciated from this lofty perspective.
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The Bahamas - A collection of small island cays and the prominent tidal channels cutting between them appear like abstract artwork.
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Dawn of a new day - Sunrise over Earth, as seen from the International Space Station in 2016.
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Shuttle diplomacy - The space shuttle Atlantis seen over the Bahamas prior to docking with the International Space Station. Also visible is part of a Russian Progress spacecraft docked to the station, 2011.
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Sunspot - The International Space Station is seen in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly five miles per second.
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Zero gravity - Astronaut Stephen K. Robinson, anchored to a foot restraint on the International Space Station's Canadarm2, 2005.
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Out of this world - Earthrise. The famous view of the Earth appearing over the Lunar horizon as the Apollo 11 Command Module comes into view of the Moon, 1969.
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Goodnight! - A composite image released by NASA in 2017 showing the full western hemisphere at night.
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Out of this world: incredible photographs taken from space
Astronauts capture the Earth in extraordinary hi-res clarity
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14/05/18 | StarsInsider
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Countries and continents are captured in hi-res clarity, with cities and natural wonders brought into sharp focus. Weather and atmospheric phenomenons appear in extraordinary and sometimes alarming detail. And beyond our world, the sun and the moon are revealed in magnificent close-up.
Click through the gallery to launch a spectacular collection of photographs taken out of this world.
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