A NASA astronaut may have just taken the best photo from space—ever
During his third stay in orbit, Pettit is absolutely killing it.
Nah it's still the blue pale dot and will be for a while..
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.
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.
it has a lot of interesting stuff in it at once tho
The Enterprise starting her time-jump!
