Awesome Space

The Russian Federal Space Agency’s Elektro-L satellite captures astounding 121mp images of the Earth. In this video, we get a time-lapse comprised of color-enhanced shots. Hi-res pics here.

Constructed by Sander van den Berg entirely from images captured by NASA’s Cassini and Voyager missions, this hauntingly beautiful video is made even more perfect by its backing track, That Home.

What would happen if Star Trek were written by and for cats? Perhaps it would look something like this video clip starring Commander Titan and Security Officer Atlas. Beam me up some 9Lives!

NASA visualizes the events that led to the moon’s current state and appearance, with help from the data gathered by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Poor guy’s been through a lot.

Alex Rivest assembled publicly available videos and images gathered by the NASA Johnson Space Center to create this time-lapse video showing the lights both above and on our planet.

Saturn’s rings are beautiful – at least from a distance. But did you ever wonder what the Earth would look like if it had rings? Roy Prol decided to show us. Reminds us of Halo for some reason.

Physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson once again voices his passion for space travel, arguing that beyond acquiring knowledge, manned missions encourage us to dream. A wonderful mashup by Evan Schurr.

Rovio staged a fun game announcement for the soon to be released Angry Birds Space with astronaut Don Pettit demoing real life trajectories from the ISS. Gameplay at 3:00 (Thanks juanjoli!)

When ISS astronaut Don Pettit whips out a pair of needles in orbit, he’s not making a blanket, he’s demonstrating the strange forces at work when you combine static electricity, water and zero-gravity.

Alex Cherney waited two years for the perfect conditions to take images of the Southern lights. The stunning mass of stars and meteorites is a wonderful bonus. Music by Psychadelik Pedestrian.

Image enhancement engineer Brant Widgeon helps bring us awe-inspiring astronomical images. But he doesn’t just have to clean up dust and specks – he’s got a much bigger challenge on his hands.

Ryan McNaught (as in “astronaught”) built this incredible Saturn V rocket from over 120,000 LEGO bricks. The 19 foot-tall spaceship even has a tiny NASA Astrovan to deliver its flight crew.

We’ve been pretty impressed by the previous footage shot from the International Space Station orbiting the Earth, but this 5 minute edit by Michael König is truly the pièce de résistance.

Page Stephenson worked with Intel, Xact Trax and the OMPA to create a retrievable balloon camera rig that takes breathtaking footage up to the edge of space. A parachute helps it survive the landing.

Space cadets, load up your phone with classic moments in space exploration, including gems like “That’s one small step for man…“, “The Eagle has landed.” and “Houston, we’ve had a problem.“

An extraordinary view of the Northern and Southern Auroras captured from the ISS as it orbits the globe, making Earth look like some far-off alien planet. Another awesome clip here.

This time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station gives us a quick glimpse into what flying over the planet would be like. Full screen and HD are a must for this ride.

This adorable print is an homage to Strelka (“Little Arrow”), one of the animals sent into space by the Russians in 1960. Strelka and her partner Belka were the first ones to survive orbital flight.

The talented – and very diligent – Randy Halverson is back with another unbelievably amazing time lapse of the night sky, this time with bonus shots of storm clouds and lightning. Pictures here.

Discover how astronauts slept like zombies and more in this 1980s NASA video presentation by astronauts about the nuances of daily living in space. Edited and shared to us by NPR.

A loving tribute to NASA, the end of the Shuttle program and decades of space exploration, set to the words of Carl Sagan, along with incredible, moving imagery from Earth and beyond.

Thought up by Zero2Infinity, the helium filled Bloon Balloon plans on providing relatively cheap cruises of the upper stratosphere in a specially crafted pod that can be launched from anywhere on the planet.

Scott Benson’s beautiful illustrated constellation map of the northern hemisphere is also a glow in the dark screenprint. It was inspired by the Nat Geo star chart he had in his bedroom as a child.