Took me a while to track it down but for all the camera nerds asking the same question I did - high res version complete with EXIF data is here: images.nasa.gov/details/art0... It was taken with a Nikon D5 with 14-24mm f2.8 lens, 1/4 sec at f4, ISO 51200

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Stop what you're doing and look 🌍 The full globe? That is the NIGHT SIDE. I'm pretty sure I can see some satellites/debris glinting away on the periphery. Also the Aurora?! What a bonkers beautiful world that supports and holds everyone and everything you've ever known and loved, and so much more.

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

#NASA #ArtemisII - Good SRB separation confirmed

Liftoff!

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Another massive battery storage record in California (CAISO) yesterday, March 29 🔋 At 7pm, batteries reached 12.3 GW of output, meeting 42.8% of demand! And it's not just a short peak anymore. Batteries stayed above 20% of grid supply from 5.50pm to 9.35pm, almost four hours.

It's spring, time to get out the cherry blossom tree model again #blender3d #sakura

the thing about video games is its a terrible business, because they have to be made by a half dozen of the most elite creative professions working in harmony and they're priced worse than disposable single-person works

Heh. Just noticed my name is still in Blender OpenColorIO config header (it's part of the thank-yous in the Filmic credit block since I helped beta test it). Didn't know my little color science claim to fame was still out there!

One of the fascinating aspects of Trump 2.0 has been the way the media elites who engineered his 2024 victory by, basically, **lying** about his plans and fitness for office, seemed to expect that the **reality** of Trump 2.0 would be broadly popular.

i feel cheated learning this i thought we were all 38

Trump is like a human version of the One Ring. You cannot use him for good, or even really your own purpose. He's an inherently corrupting power that only ever serves his one master, himself. When you use him, you become bound to his will.

NVIDIA presents DLSS 5

I layered the screenshots and it's more than obvious that this is no "lighting enhancement". Her entire look changes, even the shape of her lips and her jawline.

thats a different woman

Every spring I break out the sakura tree asset again #blender3d #wip

"353 comments" This is gonna be good

This is where the real humiliation kink comes in. He asked. They lied out of vanity and we get to see how pathetic they all are.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

Um...is the SC2 league screen always broken these days? (according to some websites, this MMR is supposed to be about gold-1 or plat-3, which feels more like where I should be?)

All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!

Branch manager branching out

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

BROWT GANG

Jumped on Starcraft II ladder for the first time in a year and somehow won. Uh...ok. We'll see how long I keep playing this time (the first page of my match history goes back 5 years...)

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal

Dusted off an old sun model I made in Houdini years ago. Moved it into Blender, tidied up the materials a bit, rendered a card, then attached it to the world sun in Unreal engine! (yes, I have a plan for this, but haven't built the rest. Needed this working first!)

Exciting development that is specific to exactly my niche interests: Blender 5.2 nightlies now support saving AVIF images! Yes, including HDR AVIF! #b3d

Displaying Team USA Olympic figure skater Ilia Malnin on a CRT brings out a lot of the artist-intended details that get lost with pure pixels, this is why so many of us retain vintage hardware

So uh Ars Technica ran an article that had a bunch of fake quotes in it and now seems to have taken it down rather than issue a correction? web.archive.org/web/20260213... Page is now down: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/a...

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees. This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

"If someone can invent a new Olympic sport by stacking one guy on top of another guy, surely someone could invent another Olympic sport by stacking yet one more guy on top of the aforementioned guys." Important work from @sabs.bsky.social: [🎁]

McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man? LYONS: Yes mam McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?

As more Oregonians install small-scale home-based solar systems, state lawmakers are considering a proposal to establish guidelines for what’s known as “balcony solar.”

On Polymarket you can now bet on how many people in a different market on Polymarket think Jesus Christ will return in this calendar year. 29% of bets say that more than 5% of bets in the Jesus Christ return market will be a "yes" 9 days from now. Anyway everyone involved in this needs jailtime.

The drone on a luge run is awesome

These chase drone shots in the Olympics are so good. I wish they'd use them more

Trump's attempt to crush a religious uprising might be obvious if the press corps treated everyone’s faith as equally authentic, hence equally legitimate. It doesn’t.

The problem with social media is that you’re only allowed to hold opinions in batches. If you believe X and Y, you must also believe Z, which is atmospherically similar to X and Y and believed by all the same people. If you don’t do this, everyone hates you. It makes actual thinking impossible.

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/waste #smbc

Actually we’re also overindexed on “GOP just refusing to seat everyone” because it’s not a thing where there’s a mechanism for it to happen. The only version of it is “Republican congressmen-elect do not accept the legitimacy of Dem congressmen-elect” and then dueling congresses?

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.