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.
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!
Oh damn, that is just gorgeous 🤤
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.
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.
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?
This is just a reminder that the current proposed budget cuts NASA’s budget (again) by 23%.
Yes they are!
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.
Well any diversion from the Epstein files is good for him
It feels like this is the prequel to WarHammer 40k and Trump is what eventually becomes the God Emperor.
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.
JET FUEL DOESN’T MELT 5G SIGNALS WAKE UP SHEEPLE
