International Space Station

Earthbound timelapses are a beautiful thing. But when you take the concept of capturing time itself in a series of photographs into orbit, the results are truly out-of-this-world.

We've long been fascinated by the beautiful videos that have been coming out of the International Space Station, most notably by astronaut/photographer Don Pettit. Here is a round-up of some we've come across lately.

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"The ISS Image Frontier" is a 16-minute-video from Christoph Malin which intercuts timelapses of photographs shot from the International Space Station by astronaut Don Pettit with animated images of Pettit himself and even his lectures. Watch below.

Filmmaker Giacomo Sardelli created this space time-lapse using not only images taking from the International Space System, but also audio messages of peace and harmony from the astronauts who have lived there over the past 11 years.

Sardelli explains, "Pictures were downloaded from the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center and edited with Photoshop CS6. Even if they were Hi-res images shot with Nikon D3S cameras, a lot of noise removal and color correction was needed, especially for those shots at ISO 3200, which was the highest ISO speed limit I’ve allowed myself to use, exception made for the last sequence of the spinning world, which comes from a sequenze of shots taken at ISO 12800. Daytime shots were taken at ISO 200. I’ve used Topaz Denoise 5 for noise removal, as it is very powerful and accurate when dealing with shadows and blacks."

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Thanks to Christoph Malin's method of "stacking" together images from the International Space Station, the Earth looks like one giant homage to Tron. He explains what we're looking at as, "This video was achieved by 'stacking' image sequences provided by NASA from the Crew at International Space Station. These Stacks create the Star Trails, but furthermore make interesting patterns visible.

NASA's latest time-lapse from the International Space Station begins with the following Galileo quote: "If you could see the Earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon."

Watch the "splendid" view below.

Can't get enough of those breathtaking time-lapse videos taken from the International Space Station? Now you can go through them based on geographic location.

NASA has created a clickable map that lets you see all of the available ISS time-lapses by region. You can even download the photographs used to create your own videos. Check it out here.

Want to create your own fancy outer space time-lapse video (like the one found below)? It's actually pretty simple to do and Vimeo user The Film Artist has a quick, easy-to-follow tutorial using publicly available International Space Station images from NASA's website and Quicktime Pro. Read it here.

In what could be a dramatic and epic opening to a sci-fi movie, "View from the ISS at Night" features only real photos taken from the International Space Station. Photographer Knate Myers strung together the photos to form the beautiful time-lapse found below.

The beauty of images captured from The International Space Station is not only innate -- it's also in the fact that they are in the public domain. Which lets people like photographer Alex Rivest compile time-lapses like "The Best View in the Solar System," starring our very own planet Earth.