Posts tagged sun

Ontario, Canada-based photographer Matt Molloy recently created a gorgeous series of sky images by stacking multiple photos onto one. The individual photos are most often taken from the timelapses he shoots. The final photo has a stunning painterly effect, almost as if someone had taken a paintbrush to the sky and smeared its beautiful colors.

When asked at 500px how many photos it took to create the one seen above, he replied, “I’m not exactly sure, but I used hundreds of photos to create this one image.”

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Learn something while having a tune stuck in your head all day.

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It almost looks fake.

It almost looks fake.

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People keep reblogging this comparison, noting that the top photo (allegedly taken by the Curiosity rover currently on Mars) is really similar to the twin suns of Tatooine. Well, it’s fake, kids. Dramatically so. It’s pretty obvious when you consider that THERE AREN’T TWO SUNS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. Also: the positioning, shades, and colors of the two suns in both photos are identical — they’re just a bit more saturated and stretched out horizontally to be more circular in the Mars photo.So, someone clearly just copied and pasted the screenshot from Star Wars into a photo from the Martian surface. The Martian surface photo used is probably this one:  And that was taken by the Spirit rover in 2005 (notice the landscape and horizon details in it are identical to the top “twin sun” photo above, meaning either Mars had two suns for like 12 hours in 2005 and the rover documented both in that span or this is nonsense).Also: this image is not from Curiosity because Curiosity has not taken any photos of any sunrise/sunset on Mars. Derr. If it had, don’t you think this photo or any similar ones would’ve been all over the news rather than just Tumblr?Note: that legitimate NASA Martian sunset photo above was released on May 19, 2005. The same day on which this movie was released. The final shot of that movie? Pow! 

People keep reblogging this comparison, noting that the top photo (allegedly taken by the Curiosity rover currently on Mars) is really similar to the twin suns of Tatooine.

Well, it’s fake, kids. Dramatically so. It’s pretty obvious when you consider that THERE AREN’T TWO SUNS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. Also: the positioning, shades, and colors of the two suns in both photos are identical — they’re just a bit more saturated and stretched out horizontally to be more circular in the Mars photo.

So, someone clearly just copied and pasted the screenshot from Star Wars into a photo from the Martian surface. The Martian surface photo used is probably this one: 

And that was taken by the Spirit rover in 2005 (notice the landscape and horizon details in it are identical to the top “twin sun” photo above, meaning either Mars had two suns for like 12 hours in 2005 and the rover documented both in that span or this is nonsense).

Also: this image is not from Curiosity because Curiosity has not taken any photos of any sunrise/sunset on Mars. Derr. If it had, don’t you think this photo or any similar ones would’ve been all over the news rather than just Tumblr?

Note: that legitimate NASA Martian sunset photo above was released on May 19, 2005. The same day on which this movie was released. The final shot of that movie?



Pow! 

phytos: Anton Makeev I like to believe any village/city founded at the foot of a mountain was erected in the spirit of enough people in the pioneer group looking at that huge mountain in front of them, exhaling, and saying “…screw this noise, I’m stopping here”.

phytos:

Anton Makeev

I like to believe any village/city founded at the foot of a mountain was erected in the spirit of enough people in the pioneer group looking at that huge mountain in front of them, exhaling, and saying “…screw this noise, I’m stopping here”.

Yeah, sure — I’ll take some summer on the side.

Yeah, sure — I’ll take some summer on the side.

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SDO’s Ultra-High Definition View of the 2012 Venus Transit by NASA

I’m not a huge fan of the KMart brand knockoff Clint Mansell soundtrack used here* but this is positively beautiful and mind-blowing in fullscreen HD.

(Just mute the video and then play this instead, while watching. It works.)

Sunday: the personification of perspiration. The glasses are not prescription.(Note: I look so unhappy here. I couldn’t tell when I reviewed the photo, because of the sunshine, or I would’ve gone for another take. Whatevz. It was positively sweltering and I was drenched in sweat.)

Sunday: the personification of perspiration. The glasses are not prescription.

(Note: I look so unhappy here. I couldn’t tell when I reviewed the photo, because of the sunshine, or I would’ve gone for another take. Whatevz. It was positively sweltering and I was drenched in sweat.)