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Lighting the Night in Southern Africa
Published December 8, 2024
An astronaut’s sweeping nighttime photograph of Namibia and South Africa reveals the region’s lighted communities, many of which are centered around mining.
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Western Australia’s Capital City
Published December 1, 2024
Perth, the only city along the country’s western coastline with more than 1 million people, displays widespread urban infrastructure alongside the Swan and Canning rivers.
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Windy City of Lights
Published November 24, 2024
Orange, yellow, and white lights span Chicago at night, illuminating its gridded downtown and tracing its sinuous rivers and parks.
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Tajikistan’s Fedchenko Glacier
Published November 17, 2024
The exceptionally long high-mountain glacier in Central Asia ranges from snowy white near the mountain peaks to dusty brown at lower elevations.
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Sandy Sculptures in Morocco’s Erg Chebbi
Published November 10, 2024
Windswept sand formations known as star dunes, or pyramid dunes, are a distinctive feature of the Sahara Desert in northern Africa.
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Crepuscular Rays and Cumulonimbus Clouds
Published November 3, 2024
Photographed from orbit at sunset, the rays of light penetrating gaps in the clouds span vast distances.
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Exploring Russia’s Krenitsyna Volcano
Published October 27, 2024
The volcano’s central peak, an island within an island, stands above a reflective, water-filled caldera.
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Madagascar’s Betsiboka River Delta
Published October 20, 2024
The growing network of channels and islands now spans more than half of the estuary that was once open to ships.
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Meanders of the Irrawaddy River
Published October 13, 2024
River channels old and new wind across a floodplain in Burma (Myanmar), mingling with areas of agriculture and aquaculture.
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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Arrives from Afar
Published October 12, 2024
A “dirty snowball” from the distant icy cloud encircling our solar system passed by the Sun and Earth in autumn 2024.
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Sprites, Camera, Action!
Published October 6, 2024
An astronaut photographed the atmospheric phenomenon, associated with lightning, during a stormy night over North America.
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Bends of the Alabama River
Published September 30, 2024
Reflected sunlight highlights the water’s surface and flooded zones near Gee’s Bend.
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