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[WATCH] Visual Effects Artist Shows What Space X Rockets Look Like Compared to NYC Landmarks

2022-01-12T16:00:00-05:00

In this interesting video from YouTube channel Corridor Crew, watch as a visual effects artist renders models of Space X rockets alongside New York City landmarks in order to help get a grasp on how large they actually are. Check it out!

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[WATCH] Time Lapse Video Shows the Overnight Starscape Moving Over Manhattan

2019-10-14T16:00:00-04:00

This great time lapse video from local photographer Scott Segler shows the New York City starscape seen over Manhattan on a clear night in August. Check it out!

Planet and star gazing over Manhattan the evening of Aug 31 - Sep 1, 2019

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Time Lapse Video Shows 2019 Perseid Meteor Shower Over New York City

2019-08-16T12:30:00-04:00

The Perseid Meteor Shower is one of the most popular annual meteor events that we can observe on Earth. This year's shower is now over, taking place on Monday-Tuesday of this week, but you can still see it over New York City if you missed it live. Local pro photographer Scott Segler captured the 2-day event in this great sweeping time lapse video taken on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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Peek Inside This $85M Manhattan Penthouse That Comes With 2 Tickets to Space

2019-06-25T12:30:00-04:00

There are luxury apartments and then there is this. The 45th floor duplex at the Atelier building on its own may be worth the $85M price tag, but the additional perks may be what seals the deal. The Midtown Manhattan apartment features 10 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and 15K square feet of interior space, but why stop there? It also includes a private chef for a year, a private butler, three exotic super cars (2 Rolls-Royce and a Lamborghini), a $1M yacht, floor seats at Nets games at the Barclays Center, dinner for a year at the Michelin star restaurant Daniel, a summer house in the Hamptons and perhaps most impressively, two tickets to outer space.

Check out the listing page for more info on this incredible $85M luxury Manhattan penthouse that includes 2 tickets to space.

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This Astronaut Captured 9/11 Destruction From the International Space Station

2018-09-11T17:00:00-04:00

On September 11th, 2001, U.S. astronaut Frank Lee Culbertson Jr. was orbiting earth 150 miles above the surface aboard the International Space Station. While the footage quality reflects camera abilities at the time, he was able to capture the billowing smoke from space. Check out the video and listen as he shares his sentiments on the day of the attack.

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Check Out This Recent Photo of New York City... From SPACE

2018-08-24T13:00:00-04:00

NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold is currently stationed on the International Space Station orbiting 254 miles above the earth, traveling at 4.76 miles per second. Recently, the astro-photographer snapped this epic photo showing most of New York City from way up there. See almost all of Manhattan, most of Brooklyn, a lot of Queens, and a tiny bit of The Bronx.

"The city seen from the #QueensboroBridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald #NYC #Manhattan

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Visual Effects Artist Shows What Space X Rockets Look Like Compared to NYC Landmarks

2018-06-21T10:30:00-04:00

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Here is a Unique Photograph of 9/11 Attacks That Was Captured From Space

2018-04-17T10:30:00-04:00

U.S. Astronaut Frank Culbertson was the only American in the International Space Station during the World Trade Center attacks of September 11th, 2001. He captured this photograph from the station as it passed over lower Manhattan. Check out this NASA article to hear what it was like that day from more than 200 miles up in space.

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Check Out This Vintage Map of New York City From 1860 Overlaid With a NASA Satellite Image

2017-11-08T10:30:00-05:00

The Landsat Science team at N.A.S.A. recently combined a vintage map of New York City from 1860 with a satellite image of the City from 2013, allowing you to compare and contrast with a flick of the blue slider.

Comparing the 1860 map with the Landsat scene, clearly the general configuration of the area has not changed in 165 years, but wharfs and other structures have been added along the Hudson River, Newark Bay and elsewhere. Urban areas have expanded dramatically, exemplified by the cities of Newark and Elizabeth in New Jersey. The two cities appear as darkened areas on the left side of the 1860 map (Newark larger than Elizabeth), and in the Landsat scene they are represented by light gray colors that show an almost unbroken area of urbanization. Brown colors in the Hudson River show sediment being carried to New York Bay. Green areas indicate open spaces and small forests.

Check out the full article to play with the image, and to read more analysis about what has happened over the past 150 years.

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[WATCH] Meet Jupiter Joe, the New York City Subway Astronomer

2017-10-06T11:30:00-04:00

Jupiter Joe is an astronomer who takes to the New York City subway to help teach kids and adults about the planets and stars, for free. With his tracking telescope, Joe sets up on above-ground subway platforms, bus stops, and other public transit areas in the City, allowing anybody to take a look at what's above.

Most of us spend most of the time looking down at our phones. But Jupiter Joe wants to change that - in NYC, he’s drawing people’s eyes to the sky. And right from the convenience of the subway.

Learn more about Jupiter Joe in this well-produced profile from Function.

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