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Astronaut's astonishing photo captures a real 2001"Star Gate" moment in space

Allan Rose Hill
Mar 18, 2025
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image: NASA/Don Pettit/Babak Tafreshi

My god, it's full of stars. Astronaut and astrophotographer Don Pettit captured this deeply trippy image from the International Space Station. The scene has the same cosmic psychedelia as the Star Gate sequence at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey (video below). But, y'know, this is real.

To create the final time-lapse…

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