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    Photographing the same subjects from Earth and space! More details in comments.
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    Photographing the same subjects from Earth and space! More details in comments.

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    1. astro_pettit on

      Introducing From Above & Below, a mission to photograph the same subjects from Earth and space with National Geographic. NatGeo photographer Babak Tafreshi traveled the world while I orbited around it on the ISS, and together we created this perspective! Images show the Milky Way, high altitude auroras, Washington DC at night, and comet A3, with more to be posted soon.

      More photos from space can be found on my [twitter](https://x.com/astro_Pettit) and Instagram, astro_pettit

    2. xerkus on

      Ooh, so the bluish glow on the first one actually comes from atmosphere scattering? I assume both are color corrected here.

    3. Visocacas on

      I’ve never seen a space-based photo of the Zodiacal light, that’s super cool!

      My brain is having a hard time not interpreting it as a gas cloud. Same thing happened when I saw the sun’s corona during the 2024 eclipse; my brain was convinced it was a cloud in Earth’s sky and just couldn’t compute the distances between the sky, moon, and sun.