2+ hour, 36+ min ago   (463+ words) Fstoppers Will Nikon Be Taken Over? Speculation is circulating again that the Ray-Ban owner's steadily growing position in Nikon could be a first step toward buying the camera maker outright. The latest round of chatter, flagged by Nikon Rumors citing…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (867+ words) The Photograph That Proved Einstein Right: The 1919 Eclipse Plates Fstoppers The stars had not moved, of course. Their light had. If Albert Einstein was right, the Sun's gravity should bend the path of starlight grazing its edge by about 1.75 arcseconds,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (278+ words) Miraflores isn't just visually striking. The roughly 20-foot butte is topped by a thick cap of sand and was left standing as the surrounding rock eroded away over time, deepening the broad valley Curiosity is climbing through. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (556+ words) Fstoppers Scientists just released the highest-resolution images of the Sun's visible surface ever captured, taken in violet light at 416 nanometers. The pictures resolve features as small as 19 kilometers across and reveal tiny, swirling, whirlpool-like patterns nobody had directly seen on…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (414+ words) No part of North America sees totality this time, but parts of the northern U.S. and most of Canada will see a partial eclipse. The amount of the sun obscured will depend on your precise location, so check a location-specific eclipse…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (352+ words) Fstoppers An Incredible Image of the Statue of Liberty Nebula Just Landed on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day The subject is NGC 3576, a luminous emission nebula found in the constellation Carina. On its Astronomy Picture of the Day page,…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (148+ words) The big deal with this tripod is that, combined, the head and tripod weigh just 2.2 lb (1 kg). This is very impressive indeed. The tripod itself weighs an insanely light 1.4 lb (641 g). Impressive weight aside, the Rocket Air is a masterclass in…...

4+ mon, 16+ hour ago   (211+ words) at 4 a.m. Fstoppers Why Light Pollution Killed This Comet Shot at 4 a.m. Comet PanSTARRS had a narrow visibility window, and Brent Hall had roughly 12 hours to pull together a shot. What followed was a scramble of location scouting, dead batteries, cactus needles…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (969+ words) We sat down with Madow to talk about the decade-long journey that led to this moment, the painstaking technical work behind his remote camera setups, and what it feels like to watch humanity head back to the Moon. A general…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (391+ words) Why Hyperspectral Satellites Can See Things RGB Cameras Physically Cannot Fstoppers Why Hyperspectral Satellites Can See Things RGB Cameras Physically Cannot Hyperspectral satellites are rewriting what "seeing from space" means. Instead of the three color channels your eyes use, a…...