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Astrophotography | Thierry Legault

They look just like specks of dust on the surface of the sun, but those black dots were the silhouettes…

13 years ago

Space Walks

It was one of the most famous images of the Space Age. What many people didn't realize was how far…

13 years ago

Space Shuttle Program (1981 – 2011)

After three decades, Atlantis which was launched on Saturday will be NASA's last space shuttle mission. For the next eleven days,…

13 years ago

Fukushima Nuclear Incident

When I saw conflicting reports over the exploding nuclear power plant in Japan that had been damaged by an earthquake…

13 years ago

The Completion of Transcontinental Railroad

Six years after work began in 1862, the laborers of the Central Pacific Railroad from the west and the Union…

14 years ago

Maurice Broomfield (1916-2010)

Maurice Broomfield started his career documenting the devastated cities of Europe. When he returned, Imperial Chemical Industries asked him to…

14 years ago

The Day of the Black Sea

You got to hand it to Chris Graythen of Getty -- he sure can make an oil spill look beautiful.…

14 years ago

Blown-Away Man, 1978

Rarely has an advertising image been hailed as a pop culture icon. In that rarified company of Marlboro Man and…

14 years ago

Climate v. Politicians

(Clockwise from left to right: Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of European Commission; German Chancellor Angela Merkel; Swedish PM Fredrik…

14 years ago

Krakatoa Explodes

Since Eyjafjallajökull is grounding me and providing thousands of people in Northern Hemisphere with the Icelandic volcano excuse for flaking…

14 years ago