That iPhone video is the farthest a consumer smartphone has ever been from Earth. Roughly 250,000 miles away, handheld through a docking hatch window, at 8x zoom with no modifications.
Apollo 8's Earthrise was shot on a Hasselblad 500EL that NASA had torn apart and rebuilt. Custom lubricants that wouldn't off-gas in vacuum. 70mm Ektachrome film. A 250mm Zeiss Sonnar lens on a bespoke camera body with motorized film advance. 1968 peak-of-engineering, purpose-built for one job.
Reid shot his version on an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 200mm equivalent focal length at 8x. f/2.8. The same phone shipping to Apple stores this week.
The 8x view looks close to the human eye because the tetraprism folds the optical path inside a sensor the size of a fingernail. Apple spent a decade compressing what used to require a 250mm Zeiss barrel into 4mm of stacked glass plus computational denoising.
The four astronauts went 252,756 miles from Earth. The device that documented the view sits on your nightstand.
Earthset.
The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. The image is reminiscent of the iconic Earthrise image taken by astronaut Bill Anders 58 years earlier as the Apollo 8 crew flew around the Moon.
This photo of Earth is EXTRA spectacular for a good reason... let me explain. Most images you see of Earth from space are the daylight side of the Earth, and it's obviously very bright (see my last image), this means stars are too dim to be seen with that bright exposure setting (low ISO, high shutter and / or stopped down aperture).
BUT this image taken by the Orion crew looks so incredible because you can see the sun is BEHIND the earth, meaning it's night time on the side of the earth facing the crew in this image.
So how do you expose a night time earth from space? Same way you do on Earth! A mixture of opening up the aperture (F4 in this case), cranking the ISO (51,200 here), and using a relatively long exposure (1/4 of a second). We can see the settings used by looking at the exif data from the camera. What this means is our camera is also sensitive enough to see stars in the background of Earth, leading to an extraordinary image!!! GREAT WORK!!! These are the kind of images I've been so excited to see!
Dengue virus, which is spread by mosquitoes, is a serious health threat in Puerto Rico and a growing concern in parts of the mainland U.S.
Scientists are using @NASA data to track the environmental conditions linked to dengue and improve forecasts of dengue risk in Puerto Rico.
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A few days ago we covered the story that Jeffrey Epstein had an active World of Warcraft account.
While the extent of his activity was previously unclear, some media outlets are now reporting that in 2007 (during The Burning Crusade) he used the game to launder money in collaboration with one of his closest associates (Steve Bannon), who operated a Chinese gold farming operation.
via @MarioNawfal
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The couple that was in Bad Bunnyβs Super Bowl halftime show performance got MARRIED for real during the show.
The couple invited Bad Bunny to their wedding a couple months ago, so he decided to have them get married at his performance.
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