The remarkable image of the astronaut captures the Milky Way beyond Earth’s horizon

Recently, Astronaut filmed an image of Earth from the International Space Station, which offers a completely different view of our world and what lies beyond.

Astronaut Don Petit filmed the image when the ISS was about 265 miles above the Pacific on January 29, 2025. The image was made shortly before sunrise, so the parts of the world visible in the photo are still concealed in darkness.

In the background is gas, oblong Milky Way. The Milky Way is visible from the edge, which means that the photo looks through the diameter of the galaxy.

The photo is taken with a camera using low light and long duration settings, helping the five -stove to capture the blurring of the Earth’s rotation on the focused background of the stars of the Milky Way.

The photo is special in that our planet – such a famous blue and green with white cloud strands – is instead of a mossy green tint. A thin strip of white outlines the edge of the atmosphere of the planet and the border between our world and space.

Petit is part of the NASA 72 expedition team, a group that includes astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore and Nick Hag. Williams and Wilmore have participated in a prominent place in Recent titles Because they are stuck in space. Their situation recently turned into a flash when Spacex owner Elon Musk firm Astronauts were left on stuck political reasonsand traded Barbie with a former ISS commander who insisted on another. Williams and Wilmore are currently expected to return to Earth in March on SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

On the day after this photo was taken, Williams and Wilmore took a 5.5-hour space path. Thus, Williams broke the record For the total time for space expense from a woman, which led her to 62 hours and 6 minutes – exceeding the previous record of 60 hours and 21 minutes. So it’s not like astronauts to waste their time in the ISS while expecting their return.

Meanwhile, Petit’s photo enters a unique pantheon of images on our planet taken from orbit. Pettit is also the author of a remarkable shot On Earth with two satellite galaxies in the background in December. As Pettit reported the X (before Twitter), he took the photo using a “home -made tracking device that allows exposures in time required to photograph star fields” and “Follow more photos like this.”

In the appearance of this, the recent surreal frame on Earth uses the same technology. Petit managed to capture a clear view of the stars of the low -earth orbit.

Petit also made titles recently to share a video in which he jumped in his trousers two legs at a time. For the protocol, I can do it. And I don’t need zero gravity to do it – just ask my three pairs of torn pants.