This has to be the coolest one.
No stars! They haven’t learned from their stupid mistake 60 years ago! /s
Actually, now that you point it out, do you happen to know why there are no stars visible?
Is it day on the moon on that picture or whats the cause? O.o
Stars are dim. Earth and the Moon are bright. If you exposed the shot such that stars would be visible, the Earth and the Moon would be horrendously overexposed.
If you look at this one of the moonlit nightside of the Earth they took on the way out, you can see stars. The website has EXIF-data on the bottom with more info on the exposure.
To save people a click: ISO is 51200 (in layman’s terms: holy shit it goes this high?) and they still exposed for 1/4s (somewhat normal for low-light photography) at an aperture of f/2.8 (gaping hole).
Holy shit what a picture that is. I always think of Sagan’s pale blue dot speech when I see stuff like this. Perspective is a funny thing.
Nice try! I know the render job for this photo just wasn’t very good!
Just the light contrast. Stars are not as bright as the light from the sun reflecting off the Earth and the Moon. If they adjusted the exposure enough to see the stars, the Earth and Moon would look blindingly bright in comparison.
It truly needs to be very dark for stars to be easily visible, to the extent that the mere lights from a nearby city shining through the atmosphere are enough to render them invisible on a clear night.
That was quite qiick and well worded. Thank you!
Others have answered, but here’s an extra bit of trivia: space looks like a deep dark void with these two in frame…
…turn around, when the sun and planets aren’t interfering and you see the stars. An absolute sea of stars that space appears full of them. Apparently it’s pretty damn fantastic.
Edit: here’s one now: Starstruck
Oh damn, that is just gorgeous 🤤
New background aquired.
You got a link to the photo? Would like to know when it was shot. Can’t seem to find the exact pic on their site
Oh weird, I guess the photos cycle out on the “new” page.
Here are all the pics of just the lunar flyby, including the one I posted above:
Thanks!
This is just a reminder that the current proposed budget cuts NASA’s budget (again) by 23%.
Thanks for the reminder. I had just forgotten that I probably have to get a new job next year.
If you download their app it will change your phone background daily to picture of the day. It’s been awesome!
Google keep gang
If you’re okay with your data being effectively public, it is absolutely an amazing note to keeping software. By far the best UI of anything I’ve found.
Honestly I wish someone wrote an OS clone. The UI isn’t all that complex
It’s very useful plus my job requires sharing notes around so we use this.
Yes. I offload all my thoughts into my Keep. I can then use it to see what i was thinking about in the past
jfc you can do that with plain text and any file syncer, you don’t need the Ad Conglomerate Prime, Third Most Evil Corporation to store your literal internal thoughts
Might I ask what’s worse than Google? And then what’s worse than that?
Theyre mining your comments right now. If a person doesnt care thats fine let them be.
I’ve had the Astronomy Picture Of the Day set as my wallpaper source on KDE.
Almost every day I see something stunningly beautiful. Would recommend.
Ooh, I should look into this for GNOME.
It’s a big disappointment that Trump and his murderous rampage is overshadowing something so awesome and inspiring. The news doesn’t even care that we sent people to the other side of the moon.
It feels like this is the prequel to WarHammer 40k and Trump is what eventually becomes the God Emperor.
JET FUEL DOESN’T MELT 5G SIGNALS WAKE UP SHEEPLE
There’s an XKCD for everything. How do they know?!
It looks soo realistic though!
Yes they are!
Just wish I could be excited about space…
You aren’t? How does that work? As someone terminally excited by space it’s hard to comprehend someone not.
Same.
You might be depressed or something. Like legitimately. Not taking cheap shots and having a dig, but seriously.
I like the green screen fuck ups and when the plushie doesn’t leave a shadow
