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As of June 2020, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory – SDO – has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years. This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it influences the solar system. With a triad of instruments, SDO captures an image of the Sun every 0.75 seconds. The Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument alone captures images every 12 seconds at...

Early on this summer when I found myself down by Santa Rosa, AZ watching a gorgeous hail core fall on the stunning desert landscape, and then later that day staring at a haboob with a stacked shelf cloud above it near the border of Mexico, I had a feeling it would be a unique monsoon. It's funny how every year is different. That's the beauty of chasing the summer storm season out here in the desert southwest. You never know what's going to happen or what you might see.

To commemorate Veterans Day, the Michigan State Spartans and North Carolina Tar Heels played a college basketball game aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. The transformation of the flight deck of the nuclear-powered Nimitz-class super carrier in preparation for the basketball game was captured via time-lapse photography on Nov 11, 2011.

TEMPUS FUGIT 2 , the sequel of my first timelapse movie „Tempus Fugit“ (vimeo.com/69844748) took me three years to shoot. I was visiting a lot of popular and well known places around the world but quite remote and deserted spots, too, in the last three years. Sometimes I had to hike for hours with heavy equipment to come to the spots. You will find locations in Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and USA (California, Utah, Washington, Oregon). The final movie consists of roughly 6.500 frames and had been cut out of 100 timelapse sequences with more than 30.000 frames altogether....

Explanation: Sometimes, after your eyes adapt to the dark, a spectacular sky appears. Such was the case in 2011 March when one of the largest auroral displays in recent years appeared over northern locations like the border between Norway and Russia. Pictured in the above time-lapse movie, auroras flow over snow covered landscapes, trees, clouds, mountains and lakes found near Kirkenes, Norway. Many times the auroras are green, as high energy particles strike the Earth's atmosphere, causing the air to glow as electrons resettle into their oxygen hosts. Other colors are occasionally noticeable as atmospheric nitrogen also becomes affected. In...

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998. http://youtu.be/9U8CZAKSsNA Beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear). Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the...

"I filmed my daughter every week, from birth up until she turned 12 years old.." What a great idea.

Running through life at a frantic pace, living in the 'now', we often remain ignorant of those natural phenomena that take place over longer time scales (especially with the majority of our lives now also spent indoors). "The wheels of the cosmos turn too slowly for humans to watch", says José Francisco Salgado in the trailer to his upcoming feature Sidereal Motion. "Until now." With the advent of digital cameras, the art of time-lapse photography has risen to new heights. Through the lens of these artists we can see what the world might look like to a consciousness that perceives...

Tom Lowe has done it again: another jaw-dropping astronomy timelapse. Timescapes: Death is the Road to Awe from Tom Lowe @ Timescapes on Vimeo.

If you want to see a FABULOUS time-lapse video of the San Francisco Bay Area, you have got to see this video (you need to have broadband for it to stream properly). I'd recommend you play the video in full-screen mode so you can see the spectacular time-lapse video scenes of the fog rolling in from the west over the San Francisco hills and the lights of the planes landing and taking off from San Francisco International Airport at night.

A man watched the launch of the space shuttle Discovery in America from his allotment in England. Donald Lyven, 53, saw the spaceship lift off in Florida on his television just after 5am, then amazingly spotted it in the skies near his home just 20 minutes later. The decorator even captured the Nasa craft on camera as he saw it fly past overhead. The fainter trail from the spacecraft is from the main fuel tank, which is ditched during launch. 'It was an absolutely magnificent sight and I don't think many people would have known about it and seen it,'...

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party

Apple launched its latest flagship New York Apple retail store this month, and the moment became a scene for an unexpected wedding proposal. Apple offered time-lapse photography from the first 24-hours of the store opening. A love-struck bachelor called James saw the moment as a golden opportunity to propose marriage to his partner of four years, Uschi. He exploited the time-lapse sessions to hold a series of signs proposing marriage, signs which were soon spotted by eagle-eyed members of the Mac community. James explained: “The day before my proposal we went to the store opening where we queued for hours....

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 November 15 Night Trails of Africa Credit & Copyright: LeRoy Zimmerman Explanation: Spanning southern to northern skies, stars trail across this panoramic view of the African night from equatorial Kenya. The three hour long exposure was made on a clear, dark, mid November evening facing due west and covers just over 180 degrees along the horizon. So, the South Celestial Pole is at the center of the...

About Us - Project Rebirth at Ground Zero Project Rebirth, a cinematic landmark chronicling the rebirth of Ground Zero in New York City, will capture, through 35mm timelapse photography, the restoration of the entire area where the World Trade Center formerly stood. The project is being produced by Project Rebirth, Inc., a New York non-profit corporation dedicated to the film's creation, production, and distribution. The film is intended for installation in a memorial museum, where multiple screens will surround the audience giving the impression of the buildings rising around them as they hear the sounds of New York, and...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 July 30 A Star Cluster in Motion Credit: Adam Block (NOAO) Explanation: Star clusters are a swarm of complex motions. The stars that compose globular clusters and many open clusters all orbit the cluster center, occasionally interacting, gravitationally, with a close-passing star. The orbits of stars around the cluster are typically not as circular as the orbits of planets in our solar system. Cluster stars frequently fall...