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This vessel can reach incredible speeds over long distance travels across space. Two ICF1 vessels got lost in the Nekromandéa nebula a couple of months ago, no one know where the freighters or cargo went, but some say space-pirates roam those nebulas...
Build time: couple of hours.
3I/ATLAS (interstellar object), HST/WFC3, Jul 21, 2025.
Comet-aligned stack (4×25–40 s, single F350LP), synthetic color from luminance.
Data (image): NASA/ESA/STScI – MAST, Program HST-17830, IDs IFKP01D1Q, IFKP01D2Q, IFKP02D4Q, IFKP02D5Q.
Crop
Data: NASA/ESA/STScI – MAST (IDs above).
Processing & colorization: Thomas Thomopoulos (2025).
Droplets of cooking oil in a glass of water. Camera on tripod and self-timer used. Old lens reversed for macro shots. Off camera flash used - bounced off of various coloured cards. Colours adjusted on computer.
Strange, silly or obscure science fictiony sounding title chosen without any good reason.
All of my oil droppy images are now slopping about on Youtube. See,
Or almost no edits, this is actually the final version of my work with the canvases (the light layers), I also had to rework colors and the human at the giant red feet.
The Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles was a location dressed to play NASA's rocket silo in the 2014 movie "Interstellar" (top). The shooting took place in the huge six level lobby of the hotel. Lucky me, I was attending a function at the hotel on one of the days the filming took place. This lobby is a maze of six levels of bridges, stairways, walkways, and elevators, so my knowledge of the exact areas that the shooting took place proved to be valuable for my photo hunt.
The hotel is located at 404 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles.
Hitches rides on to interstellar asteroids, studying both the asteroid as well as surrounding space.
Quickie build.
The distance from Earth to the nearest star is 6,250 times as great as the distance from Earth to Pluto. To make such astronomical differences comprehensible we can say that the difference between these two distances is like the difference between the circumference of Earth (25,000 miles) and 4 miles.
Conquering the Sun's Empire
Frederick I. Ordway, III
and Ronald C. Wakeford
Illustrations by Harry H-K Lange
E.P Dutton & Co., 1963
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Take a picture, it’ll last longer!
Webb recently observed interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS (now being referred to as a comet) with our Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument as it passes through our solar system, adding to the data collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the recently launched SPHEREx mission. This comet doesn’t pose a threat to Earth, but cataloging its journey before it disappears back into the cosmos allows us to better understand these interstellar objects. It is only the third confirmed interstellar object that we have observed passing through our solar system.
Read more: science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/2025/08/25/nasas-webb-spac...
Credit: NASA/James Webb Space Telescope
Image description: Three charts with the X axis labeled RA Offset and the Y axis labeled Decl. Offset. There is a blue diamond and on the middle height, to the left there is a red and yellow dot.