• Amazing aurora borealis over Iceland

    Because sometimes you just need to see it… "On September 27, 2017, a G3 class solar storm sparked beautiful auroras but I was way too far north to get a very good show. Instead, Lady Aurora decided to show her best colors the next night on September 28th,…

  • Partial lunar eclipse and full moon rise of August 7, 2017

    On Monday, July 7, 2017, a partial lunar eclipse was visible at moonrise before the shadow shrank into the penumbral area, and eventually faded. "I went up the Jura mountain in France to have a clear view of the full moon rising over the Alps. As cumulus and…

  • Breathtaking structure of noctilucent clouds

    As the PoSSUM noctilucent cloud airborne campaign unfolds in High Level, Alberta, Canada, the PoSSUM team gets valuable scientific data using PMC-turbo cameras. As part of the science communication and outreach effort, photographer Adrien Mauduit is helping the…

  • Metamorphosis by Adrien Mauduit

    In nature, there is nothing more spectacular than the Spring. Funny enough, animals and plants are way quicker to get back to being active than to fall into dormancy in the Fall. It sometimes takes months for deciduous plants to lose all their leaves, whereas they…

  • Spring night sky phenomena in 4K (UHD)

    This amazing time-lapse was produced by Adrien Maudit from Denmark. In less than 3 minutes, Adrien shows us spring night sky phenomena as seen this month through his lens. From northern lights to Milky Way core, meteorites, iridium flares, zodiacal lights and…

  • Lavalapse – 61G Ocean Entry

    This amazing timelapse of Kilauea's 61g ocean entry lava flow was made by Jack Fusco just a few days before the Kamokuna lava delta collapsed into the ocean on December 31, 2016. To capture 1.3 TB, Fusco and Mark Jacobs flew over 8 000 km (5 000 miles) to…

  • Interactively explorable Earth’s topographic changes since 1984

    In a global, zoomable and interactively explorable timelapse, Google's Earth Engine has finally made available over 5 million satellite images acquired over the past three decades by 5 different satellites. You can search, pan, or zoom around to begin exploring…

  • Metropolis: Cityscape Timelapse in 4K by Michael Shainblum

    Metropolis is a collection of Michael Shainblum's favorite urban timelapses from his travels in the past few years. The cities included in the film are Dubai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, and Las Vegas. Video…