From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!
On April 6, 2026, the Artemis II astronauts flew around the Moon, observing the far side – which we never see on Earth thanks to tidal locking – with their own eyes and with cameras.
See more of the Moon:
A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon’s horizon.
Earth setting behind the Moon as seen by the Artemis II crew. Over half the left side of the image is filled by the gray lunar surface, pocked with craters.
A close view of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the gray surface, fading to dark on the left side of the image.
A close view of the edge of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the dark gray lunar surface, which arcs across the image.
A close-up view of the Moon, filling most of the frame. Along the left side of the image, the terminator divides the illuminated and darkened sides of the Moon.
A close-up view of the Moon, filling most of the frame. Along the left side of the image, the terminator divides the illuminated and darkened sides of the Moon.
Earth just as it set behind the Moon, as seen by the Artemis II crew. The dark gray surface of the Moon, pocked with craters, arcs from the bottom left corner of the image to the top right.
Check out more photos from the lunar flyby, including astronaut selfies and the solar eclipse only they experienced.
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While we're looking up at the Artemis II astronauts journeying to the Moon, they're looking back home at us.
In this image, Earth peeks through the capsule window, reminding us that a view like this relies on the ingenuity and hard work of countless people back home.
In the second image, we see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere.
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So...This is cool. However, you can probably guess it's pretty inaccurate, probably old and from a book that was printed with limited color.
But there's a funny history for me with these because in the early days of the blow so many of the black and grey paintings photographed more blue (cool lights perhaps) or greenish (on the brown and grey stuff).
Lots of factors contribute to this, but one of them probably is that photographers wished to bring the dimensions of color out of some of the paintings that look very monochromatic. we've been through this over the years with the 1964 series as well as the 68-70 paintings. At times, I imagine. flash photography was also a culprit.
As far as i know, this painting is not out in public, but the dark paintings are hard even for me to keep track of , David Anfam expressed some consternation about their cataloging to me, and he had seen a lot a huge number in person.
One of the signs here about the old scan is the white space, which Rothko never used.
Two scans I have of this are more muted, but the contrasts of the pictures are interesting
This is a different painting but you can see here in some of the more translucent areas how poor photography or reproduction could lead to high contrasts in the backgrounds. I could go on but I won't bore you, feel free to ask any questions of course.
The NIST stone test wall is an experiment by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology to determine how different types of construction stone weather. It includes 2352 samples of stone from 47 US states and 16 countries.
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