Put a camera on a tripod, point at a dark starry sky, and hold the shutter open for about 10 minutes, and the image will show stars as circular arcs. But what happens if you do it in space? In 2012, Donald Roy Pettit, better known as Don Pettit, did just that, and made beautiful images from the […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope photographed stunning light shows on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. The extraordinary vivid glows shown in the photographs are known as auroras. They are created when high-energy particles, from solar wind or other sources, enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with […]