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This passenger jet over Newark, California, has become very strangely warped. I think this is something to do with the angles involved between the plane, the earth and the satellite, but trying to figure it out is making my head…

In 1947 a guy named Art Lacey decided he wanted to buy a surplus B-17G "Flying Fortress" WWII bomber, and with little prior experience, fly the plane from Kansas back to Milwaukie, Oregon. After an incredible (and highly improbable) sounding…

At first glance Hart Island in the Long Island Sound, New York, seems a rather inconspicuous little island. Dig a little deeper... and things get a little more disturbing. In 1869 Hart Island was established as the City's public cemetery…

(It's Island Week all this week at GGSS, which means we'll mostly be posting about Islands. Catchy name, huh?) The tiny volcanic island of Iwo Jima, part of the Ogasawara Islands, is just over 1000km south of Tokyo. It was…

There's nothing more Rock n Roll than a swimming pool in the shape of a guitar, so I wonder which rock god owns this pad near L'Estartit in Spain. Actually, I take that back - having your whole house built…

Lots of the DigitalGlobe satellite photos around the world have small lens flares like this one in Reykjavik which appear to be simply the sun reflecting off a shiny surface - no big deal there. But reader Andrew Grannis brought…