Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓13h ago
Ailantd Sikowsky🔻

Nasa just published this amazing picture.

This is a very high exposure picture of the nigh side of the world. City lights, auroras, starts and Venus can be seen.

Also, do you realize how thin our atmosphere really is? We’re all living in a small fish tank. Everything we release into that thin layer of air matters.

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Show threadAilantd Sikowsky🔻13h ago
It’s terrifying to think that this razor‑thin boundary is the only place in the entire universe where we can breathe and live.
Show threadCurt10h ago
@Ailantd and to think we are destroying it from the inside even with all those external threats (solar radiation, high energy particles).
Show threadInternational Astro Artists10h ago

@Ailantd

I often think this when I visit mountainous areas, like Switzerland.

If you go up, even if only a couple of kilometres, the number of living things drops so very fast.

By the time you reach the snow line, the vast majority of living things cannot survive.

Show threadOlga Lovick (she/her)12h ago
@Ailantd For those of us going nuts trying to figure out what we're looking at: the big landmass is (northwestern) Africa, you can see Gibraltar and Spain/Portugal in the low left area.
Show threadAilantd Sikowsky🔻12h ago
@transitionalaspect
That's right.
Show threadKevin Russell12h ago

@Ailantd

No tank.
Gossamer thin coating on a mass of boiling rock. All the life in the universe is a coating, thinner than blue paint on a basketball.

The ornament without a tree hanging in space.

Show threadAilantd Sikowsky🔻12h ago
@kevinrns Yep.
Show threadalster12h ago
@Ailantd High Resolution here:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/fd02_for-pao/

And yes, we need to protect this thin layer!
Hello, World - NASA

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window on April 2, 2026, after completing the translunar injection burn.

NASA
Show threadAilantd Sikowsky🔻12h ago
@alsternerd Thanks!
Show threadAdam Collins12h ago
@Ailantd Always fun to see the small, faint crowns of the aurorae
Show threadAilantd Sikowsky🔻11h ago
@m104 Indeed.
Show threadRealGene ☣️11h ago
@Ailantd
We survive thanks to the skin of an onion.
Show threadQuantium 4011h ago
@Ailantd I guess such an image worked well, because we currently have a full moon? Even with high exposure, the light for such a photo has to come from somewhere.
Show threadAilantd Sikowsky🔻11h ago
@Quantium40 Yes, I guess most of the light comes from the Moon in this picture.
Show threadJeff Mitchell9h ago
@Ailantd Group photo! Say cheese!
Show threadCris8h ago
@Ailantd that is an absolutely incredible image