Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light\u2014a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is filled with stars and wonder.<\/p>\n
NASA Astronaut Don Pettit returned to Earth 10 days ago, landing in Kazakhstan. During his latest mission, his third long-duration on the International Space Station, Pettit brought his brand of wonderment to the assignment.<\/p>\n
During his time in microgravity, Pettit, an inveterate tinkerer, said he likes to spend his free time either doing experiments in microgravity he cannot do on Earth or taking images to bring the experience back home. At a news conference Monday, Pettit was asked why he took so many images\u2014670,000!\u2014during his most recent stay on the space station.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I\u2019m looking out the window, just enjoying the view, it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, wow, a meteor. Look at that. Man, there\u2019s a flash there. What\u2019s that? Oh, look at that volcano going off. Okay, where\u2019s my camera? I gotta record that.\u2019 And part of this drive for me is when your mission is over, it\u2019s photographs and memories. When you want to share the experience with people, you can share the memories through verbal communication, like we\u2019re doing now, but the photographs are just another dimension of sharing what it\u2019s like. It\u2019s an experience where most people on Earth right now can\u2019t share, and I can try to give them a glimpse through my imagery.\u201d<\/p>\n
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It would be almost impossible to pick just a single photo of Pettit\u2019s to share this week in the Tuesday Telescope, but I\u2019ve selected this one for several reasons. First, it\u2019s beautiful, and the framing through the Dragon spacecraft window is lovely. It also shows stars from the vantage point in space. Pettit built his own star tracker, of course, to make this happen. And finally, Earth\u2019s atmosphere is a showstopper by itself.<\/p>\n
Anyway, thank you, Don Pettit, for all of the beauty and wonderment you\u2019ve brought back from space. Most of us will, indeed, never go. But you\u2019ve brought us all that little bit closer.<\/p>\n
Source: Don Pettit\/NASA<\/p>\n
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