Nice picture. Fun fact. Brian May, of Queen fame, did his PhD on the Zodiacal dust. Its title is “A Survey of the Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud”.

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NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window after completing the translunar injection

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Attached: 1 image The Blue Marble imaged by Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman ~30 minutes after translunar injection yesterday, as Orion started its sprint to the moon. The image shows 2 auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right). This is the night side of Earth lit by moonlight. Camera: NIKON D5 (DSLR, 20.8 MP), 14-24mm f/2.8 FocalLength: 22.0 mm ISO 51200 ExposureTime: 1/4 s CreateDate: 2026:04:03 00:27:39 UTC Distance: 10,150 km Image and EXIF data at https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e000192 37/n

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@ianRobinson @AkaSci what an interesting rabbithole I fell into today! 😁