Rockstar Photographers: Astronaut Andre Kuiper & The Flattened Moonbeam

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Supermoon sinking into the atmosphere.

Afgeplatte maanstralen.

De prachtige schakeringen blauw van onze dampkring komen mooi uit in contrast met de supermaan.

Supermoon vandaag. Volle maan op de kortste afstand van de Aarde.

Remember the Supermoon of 2012? The perigee full moon on May 5, 2012 was as much as 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons of 2012. Danish astronaut Andre Kuiper was on a mission at the International Space Station when he took these photos of the supermoon sinking into the earth’s atmosphere. These images taken high above earth from space were taken with a digital camera. The bottom of the moon seems distorted because its light is being refracted by Earth’s atmospheric layers – beautiful!

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