A NASA astronaut may have just taken the best photo from space—ever - “During his third stay in orbit, Pettit is absolutely killing it.”
@science@lemmy.world @science@beehaw.org @space@lemmy.world @space@newsmast.community #space #science #nasa #astronomy
This is aliens, right?
Musk. Ruining politics, social media, astronomy, and astrophotography simultaneously.
Some context for those of you who are confused as to why this picture is impressive.
The ISS rotates around the earth every 90 minutes, so before Don Pettit brought a custom built astrophotography rig up there this picture would have been impossible to take.
It’s weird that Eric Burger neglected to put this picture into perspective for people who aren’t 100% up to date on their space news.
@mipadaitu@lemmy.world Thank you for linking to this!
I reflexively hated the light streaks at first, but then I thought about it and realized I’ve never seen the speed of ISS orbit represented in a photo before and that’s kinda cool, especially juxtaposed with the Milky Way detail that was only possible with the very same long exposure that produce the streaks.
Idk. Space usually looks pretty still and tranquil, so having that and a sense of fast movement in the same shot is pretty cool I guess.
“Best ever” though? Hell, what does that even mean? It’s a cool photo, let’s just leave it at that.
best photo from space—ever
That’s really subjective.
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works Extremely subjective but that’s the title :P
That’s highly debatable
@admin @science@lemmy.world @science@beehaw.org @space
WOW! Amazing. Thank you for the explainer.
Obviously fake, the earth should be flat in this photo.
That orange line is the wall around it, man!
Yeah, the only thing we were wrong about was the ice wall, it turns out it’s an orange ice wall
Uhm…I’ma have to disagree on that.
What a dumbass it’s not even in focus.
@salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone Yep! Cheers
Link to the quoted article: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/a-nasa-astronaut-may-have-just-taken-the-best-photo-from-space-ever/
“In this image, one can see the core of the Milky Way galaxy, zodiacal light (sunlight diffused by interplanetary dust), streaks of SpaceX Starlink satellites, individual stars, an edge-on view of the atmosphere that appears in burnt umber due to hydroxide emissions, a near-sunrise just over the horizon, and nighttime cities appearing as streaks.”
@admin @science@lemmy.world @science@beehaw.org @space
What the hell IS that?
A long enough exposure to capture the movement of the earth underneath, without being long enough for the perspective on the stars to change.
tl; dr: one helluva exercise in juuuust the right exposure length.
