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Photography

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Smile! A Satellite Around Saturn Is About To Take Your Picture

NASA is taking of Earth as seen from Saturn

We’re not lying. It’s really in this photo.

Can You Spot the Mars Rover in This Gorgeous Photo?

It’s in there somewhere, we swear!

Neptune’s new moon, S/2004 N 1, is the planet’s 14th.

In Archival Photos, Astronomer Discovers Neptune’s 14th Moon

The little moon had ignored detection until a veteran moon hunter spotted it in old photos

What do you see?

Fruits and Veggies Get a Close-Up

In the darkroom, photographer Ajay Malghan creates abstract art by casting light through thin slices of produce

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Contributors

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Two Faces, One Portrait

A collage artist combs through glamour shots of forgotten Hollywood actors to create compelling celebrity mashups

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The Big Bang: Enthralling Photos of Exploding Bullets

Houston photographer Deborah Bay captures the violent power of projectiles lodged in bulletproof plexiglass

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This Stunning, Six-and-a-Half Hour Video of the Night Sky Will Transport You to the Desert

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Check Out This Beautiful Gigapixel Panorama of Mars

This huge gigapixel panorama gives a stunning view of the red planet

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Watch New York City Come Alive in This Amazing Timelapse

Take a sped-up tour of Midtown Manhattan and its residents, non-stop traffic and historic landmarks

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This New Photo App Can Help Doctors Brainstorm What, Exactly, That Weird Thing Growing on Your Leg Is

It’s like Instagram but with rotting toes and tumors instead of filters

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San Francisco From the Air, 1938 and Today

This amazing composite photo gives a scrollable, zoomable high-resolution view of 1938 San Francisco

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The Vibrant Patterns of Portuguese Men-of-War

Beachgoers despise the stinging animals, but photographer Aaron Ansarov finds surreal beauty in them

The Amazing Grace of Underwater Portraits

Photographer Henrik Sorensen takes a fluid approach to the body in motion

Spotlight

What’s new at the Smithsonian in June

The shelled sea butterfly Hyalocylis striata can be found in the warm surface waters of the ocean around the world.

Amazing Sea Butterflies Are the Ocean’s Canary in the Coal Mine

These delicate and stunning creatures are offering Smithsonian scientists a warning sign for the world’s waters turning more acidic

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This App Uses Audio to Guide Blind Photographers

While blind people can’t enjoy photographs the same way sighted people do, that doesn’t mean they don’t want to take them

Over the past few decades Lake Urmia in Iran has steadily dried up.

28-Year Satellite Time-Lapse Shows Exactly What We’re Doing to Our Planet

28 years in just a few seconds, as seen from space

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Feel What It’s Like to Live on an Antarctic Icebreaker for Two Months

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This Camera Looks at the World Through an Insect’s Eyes

With 180 individual lenses, this new camera mimics an insect’s compound eye

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