Earthlapse vs Skylob

Turn your iPad or iPhone into a window aboard the International Space Station. Experience stunning views of Earth captured by NASA astronauts. Touch the views and control the planet with your finger. A truly amazing one-of-a-kind experience. The app comes complete with 20 beautiful interactive views of Earth as well as NASA's live view from the Space Station. In addition, the app includes a live ISS tracker, 9 relaxing space soundtracks, a clock and worldwide weather from OpenWeather in 4 styles. Fully supports iPhone, iPhone Duo, and iPad. Please note that NASA's live feed is sometimes offline or otherwise unavailable. Even when online, the live view often shows black as the ISS is regularly on the dark side of Earth. Images courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. Created by the makers of Magic Window. For more beautiful views, check out Magic Window on iPad, iPhone, Mac, and Apple TV. Earthlapse 4K is also available on Apple TV (sold separately).

The observable universe stretches roughly 93 billion light-years across and holds an estimated one billion trillion stars. Yet the universe's expansion tells a stranger story: dark energy is accelerating galaxies away from one another at rates that exceed the speed of light, shrinking our cosmological horizon: The boundary beyond which no signal can ever reach us, to about 16 billion light-years. Beyond that threshold, the cosmos becomes permanently unknowable. And within all of that immensity, as Carl Sagan so movingly reminded us, we live on a pale blue dot. A single, fragile mote among countless heavenly bodies, most of which have never been named, let alone explored. That vastness isn't cause for despair, it's an invitation.