Landscape

The Cauldron

Most Beautiful Picture October 17, 2020
The cauldron

The Plosky Tolbachik volcano – one of two volcanoes in the Tolbachik volcanic plateau in central Kamchatka, Russia – had begun to erupt again on 29 November 2012 after 36 […]

Buzludzha, Bulgaria

Most Beautiful Picture July 14, 2020
Buzludzha, Bulgaria

The Monument House of the Bulgarian Communist Party (also known as the Buzludzha Monument) was built on Buzludzha Peak in central Bulgaria by the Bulgarian government between 1971 and 1981. It commemorated the events of 1891, […]

Rocher Percé, Canada

Most Beautiful Picture April 19, 2020
Percé Rock, Canada

The Percé Rock (Rocher Percé in French) was named Percé (“pierced rock”) by Samuel de Champlain when he discovered it in 1607, in reference to the holes he had seen in the […]

Porpoise Bay, Antarctica

Most Beautiful Picture December 1, 2019
Porpoise Bay, Antarctica

The incredibly smooth surface of the sea ice indicates that it is topped with ample snow—possibly as much as tens of meters—which also drifted onto the berg’s left side. “That […]

Terkezi Oasis, Chad

Most Beautiful Picture November 1, 2019
Terkezi Oasis, Chad

A series of rocky outcroppings are a prominent feature of this Sahara Desert landscape near the Terkezi Oasis in the country of Chad. This image was acquired by Landsat 7 on […]

Love road

Most Beautiful Picture August 31, 2019
Love road

At a winery in Slovenia, the nearby road looks like a heart. “The owner says when the road was build, the workers drunk so much that they made the road […]

Pyrocumulonimbus

Most Beautiful Picture August 15, 2019
Pyrocumulonimbus

On August 8, 2019, a team of atmospheric scientists got an exceedingly rare look at these clouds as they were forming. NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory passed directly through a large […]

Cloudy Sulawesi, Indonesia

Most Beautiful Picture August 2, 2019
Cloudy Sulawesi, Indonesia

The International Space Station was crossing over the equator when an astronaut looked east and took this photograph just after sunrise. The strip of land outlined by morning sunglint is the northern […]

Ao Phang Nga, Thailand

Most Beautiful Picture February 28, 2019
Ao Phang Nga, Thailand

Ao Phang Nga National Park is located in Phang Nga Province, southern Thailand. Most of the park consists of an area of the Andaman Sea studded with numerous limestone tower karst islands. The best known of […]

Mount Rainier

Most Beautiful Picture February 27, 2019
Mount Rainier, Cascades Mountains

The Cascades in Washington, with Mount Rainier, the range’s highest mountain, standing at 4,392 m. Seen in the background (left to right) are Mount Adams, Mount Hood, and Mount St. […]

Lunar panorama

Most Beautiful Picture January 11, 2019
Chang’e-4 lunar mission panoramic picture

The Chinese lunar mission Chang’e-4 took this panoramic picture of the far side of the Moon. Amazing picture of a desolated landscape. Photo: CNSA/Thomas Appéré

Dizzy Namibia

Most Beautiful Picture June 29, 2018
Dizzy Namibia

The most incredible thing in Namibia is the night sky. Here are 700 frames combined into one image. Each frame is 25 s, f / 2.8, iso 5000, 2 s […]