The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) have successfully performed the world's first high-definition image taking by the lunar explorer KAGUYA, which was injected into a lunar orbit at an altitude of about 100 km on October 18, 2007. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The Japanese lunar orbiter "Kaguya" saw earth, moon and sun line up on April 6, 2008 and captured another "Earth-rise" and "Earth-set" HDTV video - this time when the Earth was full. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and public broadcaster NHK have succeeded in capturing their first high-definition video of Earth from the Kaguya lunar explorer. The video isn't available for download yet, but they do have a beautiful preview image. picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago

This is the first time that this phenomenon was shot from the moon.

Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter has beamed home a spectacular movie of Earth eclipsing the sun as seen from the moon. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Dr. Ariel Shamir demonstrates at SIGGRAPH an application that resizes images in such a way that the content of the image is preserved intelligently. When you resize the image, it will keep the key elements of the photo in sensible places while filling in less important areas. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Upload a photo, get a mosaic comprising of images from Flickr.

See what it made of the Plime Logo! picked by TheStep 3 years ago

The European Space Agency (Esa) has released a stunning image of the spiral galaxy M51, otherwise known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Next time you’re virtually roaming Google Earth, make sure you take a close look at any unusual landforms.

Geologist Arthur Hickman did just that, and is now the proud parent of the Hickman Crater, a meteorite crater in the Hamersley Ranges. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

HAL9000, an Italian group that specializes in art restoration, preservation and high-resolution art photography, has posted an 8.6 gigapixel stitched image of an Italian fresco. The group claims it's the highest resolution digital photograph in the world. Link goes to page that talks about the image and the method used to create it. Has a link for the actual image for those with plenty of bandwid... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

It might be a little out of focus, and need a bit of work on the composition.

But this image of a leaf has been hailed as 'priceless' by experts who believe it could be the world's first photograph. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Astronomers have obtained the first images of an asteroid on course to make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday, showing the space rock is lopsided. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Using a feature of CSS3, currently supported by Firefox but not IE7 or even Opera - yet, one can hide an image in plain site. When a block of text is highlighted the image will appear otherwise all you see is text. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Kate McCann wiped away a tear as she was shown the computer-aided image of her daughter Madeleine as she might look now. Her picture, produced using computer-assisted technology, shows a smiling Madeleine wearing a pink band in her shoulder-length hair and a blue dress with frilly white collar. picked by sharon22 7 months ago

An unexplained image in a hospital prayer garden window moved some people to tears and drew groups of people to a hallway before vanishing, according to witnesses. A crowd inside the Florida Hospital Medical Complex in Orlando snapped photos of the image apparently showing the profile of Jesus Christ crying. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

On Friday, the image appeared at 6:16 p.m. on a door of the three-car garage, and the crowd of nearly 400 people gathered in a tight semicircle to see for themselves. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

This was posted some time ago, but I see many are not aware of it. This is a great site for finding images based on an image instead of keywords. This is a great tool to find the source or higher resolution versions of images you submit to the image tab. There is also an extension avail to search while you're surfing. Check out other tools avail such as searching for music, color and more picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago

A spectacular new image shows how complex a star's afterlife can be. By studying the details of this image made from a long observation by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers can better understand how some stars die and disperse elements like oxygen into the next generation of stars and planets. Larger image. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

Anyone who has wondered what it might be like to dive into a pool of millions of distant galaxies of different shapes and colours, will enjoy the latest image released by ESO. Obtained in part with the Very Large Telescope, the image is the deepest ground-based U-band image of the Universe ever obtained. It contains more than 27 million pixels and is the result of 55 hours of observations with the... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A builder was stunned when he discovered a ghostly image of Michael Jackson on his car bonnet. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago