So I'm browsing my photography feed on Google+. There are the usual charming street photos, some gorgeous birds, plenty of bugs on flowers. A sunset or two.
Then, unexpectedly, a moonrise from somewhere high above the earth. Some guy is posting photos from space.
Not photographs of space, from a telescope, like we mere mortals might do. No. These images are actually captured from orbit, looking down. Wow.
The source is NASA astronaut Ron Garan, who recently spent half a year in the international space station and started his G+ account from low earth orbit. Lucky for us, Garan remembered to pack a camera. Feast your eyes on these!
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Alex Wild is Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books and media outlets. Follow Alex Wild on Twitter
