Alcatraz Island and Treasure Island can be seen near the center of this image of the San Francisco Bay, photographed with an 800mm lens some 215 to 220 miles above Earth. The image was taken by an Expedition 22 crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS). San Francisco bay area structures including office buildings [...]

This is not a chromatic lens aberration. I saw this sunbeam, or what I think was a sunbeam, in the late afternoon. Quite interesting and strange. Maybe it’s a UFO breaking the speed of light? Or a starship’s warp signature for fellow Trekkie fans? Probably neither. By: dagnyg

The infamous East Gate found on the Rendlesham Forest UFO Trail. Creepy in the stillness of a Sunday morning. Although the USAF have long since gone, this is still an MOD site so I didn’t particularly want to go poking my lens around the perimeter fence too much. By: Draco2008

Parts of the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea are easily noted in this unusual circular shaped image exposed by one of the Expedition 25 crew members aboard the International Space Station 220 miles above Earth. A 16mm f/2.8D lens gives this image a fish-eye effect, and the frame of the Cupola window adds [...]

Editor’s Note: This is part of a larger Flickr set, "NASA Views Earth at Night," located here: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625188331491/ From 220 miles above Earth, one of the Expedition 26 crew members used a 32-mm lens to capture this night time image of much of the Florida peninsula. The picture needs to be rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise [...]

This nighttime nadir view of Kuwait City, the coastal city which serves as Kuwait’s political and economic capital, was photographed by one of the Expedition 32 crew members from the International Space Station. The metropolitan area has a population approaching two and a half million. A 200-mm lens was used to record the image. Image [...]