A NASA astronaut may have just taken the best photo from space—ever

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/a-nasa-astronaut-may-have-just-taken-the-best-photo-from-space-ever/

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Zachariah@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y

FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Nah it's still the blue pale dot and will be for a while..

AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Maybe most impactful, but this one sure has a lot of cool things about it as a photograph.

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

It would be cooler if it wasn't so blurry. I know that's hard to correct for, but still.

AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

The new one or the pale blue dot?

BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I was referring to the new one. My eyes actually hurt a bit trying to focus on the horizon.

AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Hmm, strange. Looked like a pretty clear pic to me. Remember that the pic in the article is almost certainly a compressed version of the original from the NASA site.

M137@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Seriously? This is not that good, it's universes away from being "the best photo from space - ever". It's not even close to the best from the ISS.

AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Aside from being a cool looking pic, I think it's because of what's in it. From the article:

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.

lurch@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

it has a lot of interesting stuff in it at once tho

JoeDyrt57@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y

The Enterprise starting her time-jump!