This is amazing!

THIS:

“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress.” — Marcus Aurelius

I'm thrilled to share my deepest sky photo ever, with over 200 hours exposure in Taurus & Perseus. The famous Pleiades star cluster is visible, and Jupiter outshines all the stars in the bottom left. This was shortlisted for an award today! It's also my latest fine art print.

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe

Dad turns tv into a magical memory keeper

I’m proud of this one. I brought a solar telescope to Florida to capture a Falcon 9 rocket launch transiting the sun. While these have been captured before, never with the details of the sun’s chromosphere, which makes this one the first! See the video or get the print below 👇

What an awkward bug! There's no player input, no forces. I just made a liquid simulation algorithm, and it's trying to work. Yet the behavior somehow is so sophisticated, a combination of chaos and order. Like it's trying to self-organize into something, but fails.

یادت باشد ، همه شروع‌ها همینطورند

Comet C/2023 A3 on atmosphere's edge, as seen from the ISS.

Japan’s iSpace HAKUTO-R lander captured this stunning photo in orbit around our Moon while a solar eclipse was occurring on Earth. You can see the Moon’s dark shadow passing above Australia as a dark smudge.

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” - Carl Sagan

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Atmospheric distortion of the setting Moon, as seen from the ISS. An orbital mirage.

Clouds casting thousand-mile shadows around the Earth, seen by the International Space Station

Yeah the Apollo program has plenty of amazing photos of Earth, that are completely overlooked. In the words of Astronaut Bill Anders of Apollo 8: “We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.”