NASA’s photos are so fascinating. I had no idea a black hole looked like that!
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Did you generate this with AI? If so, what was your prompt?
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They don’t, or at least we don’t know. The best image NASA has of a black hole is a fuzzy red donut looking thing.
If anything that’s a tiny bit of a star factory.
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That is much better than the others. In general I try and use Gimp to spread the grays as much as possible so some things are almost white and full black at the other end.
In this example I have both extremes and not much in the middle.
So I create one area for the flowers and another for the leaves etc. So I spread the flower area from almost white darker to almost black. Then the leaves spread out lighter to almost white in the process passing each other.
Now as a photo, it is a bit less striking but as an engraving, it has much better detail.
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One could not sell the image but worked on a bit to bring out the dragons, this could be a stunning piece.
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Yeah, the NASA credited images off that site are public domain, but there are a lot of agencies with telescopes pointed at the sky!
I used part of Hubble’s visible light image of the Pillars of Creation on the cover of one of my sister’s books.
Probably why it was instantly recognizeable to me in the edge lit 
Hmmm, make me wonder if the Webb one would actually do a better edge lit since there’s more passthrough for the light?
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The APOD images are not Public Domain for the reason that they are private submissions, often created with many hours of work, and not created by NASA.
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Some of the APOD images are not created by NASA, that’s why you gotta check 'em individually
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no, it’s a NASA image
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If you followed the link the Dragons is not a NASA image and that was what I was referring to and not the Pillars where APOD was not the origin and all I saw were not NASA.
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What a great visual reference, thank you!
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I assume you this is not a nasa image or at the least the caption is lying. It says it’s from James Webb but we know it isn’t because Webb images have distinctive 8-point diffraction patterns on star points.
https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/diffraction-spikes-jwst
This is a meme photoshop/AI picture, a reverse image search will show it all over Reddit and other meme sharing sites. I’d call it nsfw, whether it’s sf-forum is not my call.
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Thanks!
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i appreciate that. i am too trusting!
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By only using Magic Canvas as a starting point, I can assure myself that the image only came from there and I can then modify it. Even such sources as NASA even if not proprietary, are also available to anyone else. This is not the case with Magic Canvas.
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so true. but I love the NASA photos!
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I like that one on the right. Looks like a alien city of skyscrapers on islands and some wrap around to overhang the others. Or maybe a futuristic Journey to the Center of the Earth scene.
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Definitely something one could work with. What is the one on the left? It looks like a MC dragon. A problem that frequently happens is two tails and one of them needs to be removed.
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