An amateur Australian astronomer who took a “perfect” photo of the International Space Station passing in front of the moon says it took him eight years to set up. Ken Lawson, from Geraldton in Western Australia, has been an avid astronomer and photographer since childhood. On 14 March he captured the shot of the space station passing between Earth and the moon, in perfect light, with a simple camera and telescope.

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Acrylics on canvas - 30*40 cm - Ghent (Belgium), 2019

HOW DID J.R.R. Tolkien create The Lord of the Rings? The simple answer is that he wrote it. He sat down in a chair in 1937 and spent more than a dozen years working on what remains a masterwork of fantasy literature and a genius stroke of immersive worldbuilding. The more complicated answer is that in addition to writing the story, he drew it. The many maps and sketches he made while drafting The Lord of the Rings informed his storytelling, allowing him to test narrative ideas and illustrate scenes he needed to capture in words. For Tolkien, the art of writing and the art of drawing were inextricably intertwined.

These mesmerising photos of nearly frozen waves look like they’ve been pulled straight out of the new Frozen 2 trailer. However, they were taken by photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh in Nantucket, Massachusetts. So, unless Elsa has recently moved to New England, this sub-zero phenomenon is entirely the work of Mother Nature. Nimerfroh first encountered the slushy waves back in February 2015, during his daily surf check.

See the funniest examples of medieval art where people are getting stabbed but just don’t give a damn.

The 20th century has graced us with moments of joy, moments of sorrow and everything in-between, but most people weren't there to see the greatest moments in history themselves. Luckily, photographers were there to capture the most powerful images in of the century for us – and often in the perfect shot. Just imagine how easy it is to literally shape the face of history – being there in the right place and at the exact right time to catch an iconic athlete in his moment of triumph, or a pensive president in crisis. Read on to see some of the most powerful images of the last century.

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Do you still have a lot of photographs in a free Flickr account? If you do, you'd better get them out of there, because the once popular photo-sharing site has started deleting them.

Connecticut got hit by quite a bit of snow and ice over the weekend; after the storm had passed, it left behind a lot of beautiful things.

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A natural limestone monolith located at the village of Katskhi in the western Georgian region of Imereti.

Knowledge and skills development is vital to the health of organizations. Here are some reasons why companies benefits program should include educational opportunities.

Geologist-Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 Lunar Module pilot, is photographed next to the American Flag during extravehicular activity (EVA) of NASA's final lunar landing mission in the Apollo series. The photo was taken at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The highest part of the flag appears to point toward our planet earth in the distant background.