May 15 2009
The Best Images Taken In Space
This “The Best…” list is a companion to The Best Sites For Learning About Planets & Space and The Best Sites To Learn About The Hubble Telescope.
I’ve put it together pretty quickly because I wanted to connect it to the Hubble Telescope that my students learned about earlier this week, and we’re going to the computer lab today. Because of that, I’m sure I’ll be adding to it.
I’m including some collections of images taken by the Hubble, but you can go to that “The Best…” list to find more.
Here are my picks for The Best Images Taken In Space:
The Air and Space Smithsonian has a slideshow of what they consider the 50 Best Images Taken From Space.
Milestones In Space Photography comes from National Geographic.
National Geographic also offers the Top Ten Space Photos of 2008.
Here are Wired’s choices for The Best NASA Photos Ever.
Discover has The Best NASA Satellite Photos From The Last 50 Years.
The Discovery Channel has the Phoenix Mars Lander’s Best Photos.
The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture shares the Best Examples of Astronaut Photography.
View From Above: The Earth From Space is a series of photos from The Denver Post.
Mercury and Messenger are a series of images from The Big Picture.
LIFE has an amazing slideshow of “The 21 Greatest Space Photos Ever.” They have an automatic version of the same photos here.
Suggestions and feedback, as always, are welcome.
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I’m a huge fan of NASA’s Astronomy Pic of the Day: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
I look forward to checking out the sites you’ve listed here. Thanks!
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