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If you have dreams of someday traveling into space, this video might make you drool with anticipation.

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst put together this amazing timelapse using 12,500 images taken during his six-month Blue Dot mission aboard the International Space Station.

During his time up there, he had a number of major accomplishments. According to the ESA, these included "installing ESA's furnace that can suspend and cool molten metal in mid-air, a spacewalk to maintain and improve the Space Station, and the docking of Europe's last Automated Transfer Vehicle – the largest spacecraft to supply the research centre."

Gerst would often set up cameras to take photos while he conducted his work, and you can check out his full feed of images on his Flickr page.

On Thursday, the Grand Canyon literally filled with clouds, and the National Park Service posted a time lapse video of the rare event.

This "total cloud inversion" occurs when cool, damp air gets trapped in the bottom by warm air.

The phenomenon typically only takes place every few years.

This time-lapse footage of the "Great Migration", showing thousands of Wildebeest crossing the Mara River in Northern Serengeti, Tanzania.

With record online sales and challenging winter weather, there have been a number of delayed Christmas deliveries that have put a number of courier services like UPS into overdrive. This time-lapse video shows the intricate ballet that occurs in the 24-truck truck lot in Manhattan.

Over 28 years of melting glaciers, depleted forests and expanding cities are shown in this Google time lapse project.

The Maui Space Surveillance Complex is a base ran by the Air Force Space Command and is responsible for keeping track of objects orbiting our planet such as weather satellites and space trash. Airman Magazine Online received exclusive rights to create this stunning time lapse video.

YouTuber EmperorTigerstar offers a sweeping look at the ebbs and flows of the front lines in the European theater during World War II, from the German invasion of Poland in 1939 to the surrender of the Nazis in 1945.

Location: Singapore Techniques: Time Lapse & Tilt Shift Photographer: Keith Loutit

YouTube filmmaker Andy Blalock presents a dynamic, up-and-close time lapse view of Cambodia's capital city.

All landings at San Diego International Airport on November 23, 2012 between 10:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., composited and time-lapsed into a 25 second clip by Cy Kuckenbaker.