Did you know that the Moon has color? 🌒 🎨
At first glance, it looks gray, but through the lens on the right, its full palette appears: blue from titanium, orange from ancient rocks, and more iron on the far side.
This image was captured by Orion, the Artemis II spacecraft, during a mission that also broke the record for the farthest distance humans have traveled from Earth.
And there’s something beautiful in that. The colors have always been there. We just needed the right way to see them.🌗🌖🌘🌓🌔
the chinese translation for Project Hail Mary seems to have gotten some attention, there're actually 3 different names and they all have different meanings
🇭🇰 Hong Kong - 末日聖母號 (Doomsday Holy Mother Ship)
🇹🇼 Taiwan - 極限返航 (Extreme Return Voyage)
🇨🇳 China - 挽救計劃 (Rescue Plan)
Project Hail Mary opened last week. Great film. But nobody is talking about the credits. They should be.
A guy with a telescope spent hundreds of hours collecting light from objects so distant that the photons hitting his sensor left their source before Rome was founded. His name is Rod Prazeres. His images ended up on 70-foot IMAX screens worldwide.
Look at what he captured. The Rosette Nebula is a cloud of gas 5,000 light-years away that has arranged itself into the shape of a human eye, ringed by fire. The Vela filaments are a stellar explosion still spreading outward through space – blue threads so fine they look like frost on glass. The dust pillar in the Pelican Nebula is manufacturing new suns right now. While you read this.
None of it was rendered. All of it is real.
Weir spent years getting the science right. The filmmakers felt the same way about the sky. When they needed something beautiful enough to close the film, they went looking for something that actually exists.
They found it. 5,000 light-years out.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1