"It's almost like I feel I'm just moving there, and I'm not coming back." -Scott Kelly
On his 233rd day in space, ISS astronaut Scott Kelly took a photo that's since gone viral of the Earth at night, showing a number of cities in India and a star field above the planet's atmosphere and airglow.
Image credit: ISS astronaut Scott Kelly, via https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/666042034633883649/photo/1?r….
But in the upper right of the photo, a Star Destroyer-esque light looms. As I explain, however, this is simply light reflecting off of the ISS's HDEV module, nothing more complex or extraordinary than that.
Image credit: NASA, of ESA's Columbus module.
Go see how we know, and how easy it is to fool ourselves if we're not careful.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” -Albert Schweitzer
It was an action-packed week here at Starts With A Bang, where we took on all of the following:
How…
“Pluto was part of their mental landscape, the one they had constructed to organize their thinking about the solar system and their own place within it. Pluto seemed like the edge of existence. Ripping Pluto out of that landscape caused what felt like an inconceivably empty hole.” -Mike Brown
We…
"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen." -Larry Niven
Here on the solid ground of the Earth, the Sun and Moon rise and set on a daily basis. During the hours where the Sun is invisible, blocked by the solid Earth, the stars twirl overhead in the…
"In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show." -Wilfred Burchett
The news has been aflame with reports that…
I was going to berate you for using a picture of an Executor-class SUPER Star Destroyer but talked of a *Star Destroyer*, but then read the caption and you had already noted it.
I is geek...
That's what they WANT us to believe. :)
ahh.. the super start destroyer :)
one of lego's biggest sets..so wish I could blow 400$ on lego :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMGBoaCHXiI
Build it out of cobblestone in Minecraft.
Too BAD...here is what at stake: 1) People want to believe in UFO because it exists but no real official good picture. 2) Cylinder shape UFOs belong to a great civilization (that I think from past Earth, moved away due to ice age) and hence both combined as a story....
As to past Earth civilization: we shall know in about 75 years from Antarctica....due to super Ice Age still now.
We all know the picture is real. What is far more sensational is that ISIS already has astronauts. I hope they aren't planing a terror attack on our space station. Perhaps we can get the space aliens to protect our people in outer space. :)