NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this image from the Dragon Crew 9 vehicle port window on January 11, 2025. The Dragon is a reusable spacecraft developed, manufactured, and operated by SpaceX that flies to the International Space Station (ISS).
Peter sent this January 11, 2025, masterpiece to me. Please study the email, below, that Don sent to his followers. Here is a link to guide you to fully observe the image.
“One photo with: Milky Way, zodiacal light, satellites as streaks, stars as pinpoints, atmosphere on edge showing OH emission as burned umber (my favorite Crayon color), soon to rise sun, and cities at night as streaks,” Pettit writes on the post. Zodiacal light is a faint, white glow caused by sunlight reflecting off dust particles in the solar system. It’s also known as false dawn.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, photographed through a porthole by NASA astronaut Don Pettit in transit from the ISS. Exposure time around 15 seconds.
Backdropped by Earth’s horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by a [SpaceTransportationSystem] STS-130 crew member as space shuttle Endeavour and the station approach each other during rendezvous and docking activities. Docking occurred at 11:06 p.m. (CST) on Feb. 9, 2010, delivering the Tranquility node and its Cupola. NASA.“The station was designed between 1984 and 1993. Elements of the station were in construction throughout the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe beginning in the late 1980s. The International Space Station Program brings together international flight crews, multiple launch vehicles, globally distributed launch and flight operations, training, engineering, and development facilities, communications networks, and the international scientific research community.”
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Razom, which means “together” in Ukrainian, seemed to be a theme of the afternoon as attendees shared their hopes and prayers for the Ukrainian people, made all the more resonant by the bombing of Iran that morning.
