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Astronaut Don Pettit’s Marvelous Photos From Space

a photo taken from the ISS with the Milky Way visible over an intensely colored sunrise

The NY Times has a nice feature on NASA astronaut Don Pettit’s photography from his latest stay in space, a 220-day mission aboard the ISS.

Now, you know I like a good astronomical image (like the one above of an ISS sunrise), but the thing that really caught my eye was the video of Pettit’s experiment involving charged water droplets and a teflon needle:

I could watch that allllll day long.

More Pettit: Swirling Green Aurora Captured From the ISS.

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CW Moss

I've never envied a water droplet more. That looks like fun.

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Bo

The Three Droplet Problem is probably already in pre-production.

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