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"The Fall of Icarus" Andrew McCarthy, Cosmic Background

The Fall of Icarus

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured this stunning photo of skydiver Gabriel Brown’s dark silhouette against the Sun’s fiery chromosphere. The photo was shot through a telescope equipped with a special...

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The Story Behind The First Digital Camera

“I’ll just make one [a camera] with no moving parts, and that’ll annoy the hell out of them [mechanical engineers].” The story of how the first digital camera was conceived at Eastman Kodak by a...

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Frog Rides Fish Like a Horse

Don’t know if it’s amazing, smart of the frog or downright horrifying. I know it looks kinda cute and funny at first, but I would think the poor fish would eventually collapse out of sheer exhaustion...

Canon Teases Two New V Series Cameras

Canon is announcing two new V Series cameras next Wednesday March 26 for the North American market. One of them is probably the PowerShot V1 that it already announced in the Asia market, and that will be available late...