This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
// That’s home. That’s us.
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Alternative references of better image quality mentioned in comments by @baguette@piefed.social:
- https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000192;
- https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/art002e000192/art002e000192~orig.jpg [5568 x 3712]
Top: the aurora australis.
Actually, now that I look closer, if you look even more down left, there’s also some aurora borealis!
Aurora Borealis!?
At this time of year?
At this time of day?
In this economy?
Entirely localized on the hemispheres of this planet?
Yes!
In this time of the year?!
top right also
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Behind: Things that are very very very very very very very far away.
At this time of year?