NASA told the world that, on July 19, 2013 a spacecraft would be photographing Earth from Saturn.
They published the exact time. They asked everyone on the planet to go outside and smile at the sky.
Thousands of people did.
This is the photo it took.
If you were alive in July 2013, you're somewhere in this picture.
From 898 million miles away, the universe waved back.
When you start a chess game, you have 20 possible moves available. After the first full move (White then Black), there are already over 400 possible positions. By the third move, that number jumps to around 8,900, and after the fourth it reaches nearly 200,000.
By the time you get to move #40, the total number of possible games explodes to roughly 10⁴⁰, a number comparable to the total number of atoms in the observable universe.
NASA has unveiled one of the closest images ever captured of Jupiter—and the detail is truly stunning.
Swirling cloud patterns, enormous storms, and chaotic bands sweep across the planet, each one far larger than Earth itself. These massive systems have been active for centuries, and many are likely to persist for generations.
A powerful reminder of how intense and ever-changing our Solar System truly is.
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It is a broken Christianity that says “God protected him!” when a president survives and “thoughts and prayers” when school kids die.
A god who only protects the powerful and not the vulnerable is an idol.
A comet and its faint tail blaze past Earth, the Milky Way rises like a river of stars, and vibrant auroras dance across the edge of our world. Every snapshot taken from the orbital outpost reminds us how breathtaking our cosmic neighborhood truly is.