Chicago and lake Michigan from space at night, with the aurora Borealis and the Milky Way by NASA

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Chicago and lake Michigan from space at night, with the aurora Borealis and the Milky Way by NASA

[Stuart G]

1. Great Picture...Great Post..Imagine growing up in the 50s (like I did) and thinking that ...

someday, on my very own computer, I would view a picture like you have posted.

Even owning a computer...was beyond my imagination. Hearing about them on TV was amazing.
I recall "Star Trek" and thinking that those ideas of ".. Hand held" COMPUTERS" ..are rediculous...
..Like......................
......talking to one...(a hand held one too)...(BEAM ME UP SCOTTY)...do you remember that??

Thanks for posting. ..K and R

[malaise]

2. And yet with all the advances and visuals

there are morons who still believe the earth is flat

[3Hotdogs]

19. 50's ..... you must have been awed by

Eniac.

I recall some tv show that had Eniac and the stuff it was able to do. Problem was, that stuff was meaningless to me.

There is more computer power in my cell phone than was used to get Armstrong to the Moon. But I put mine to a better use. I play Angry Bird with it.

[erronis]

34. And now my watch answers the phone - just like Dick Tracy's!

[Archae]

4. If you look north of Chicago...

You'll see a smaller light, that's Milwaukee, then you'll come to where I live, Sheboygan, and then Manitowoc.

[aeromanKC]

9. Gotta love them Brats!!

[Archae]

11. Johnsonville of course!

[geardaddy]

13. I thought Johnsonville were Repugs

[Archae]

18. I don't know, and frankly, I could care less.

They make good products. so I buy them.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

24. Same here. NT

[geardaddy]

31. Fair enough.

[elias7]

32. You'll notice Waukesha has no light, just a black hole

I used to live in Madison. Interesting way to see the geography…

[sl8]

5. Great composite pic, but I think credit goes to Adobe.

https://stock.adobe.com/images/chicago-and-lake-michigan-from-space-at-night-with-the-aurora-borealis-and-the-milky-way-elements-of-this-image-furnished-by-nasa/249924483

They do say that elements of the picture come from NASA.

[Farmer-Rick]

10. Ahh, so this was pieced together?

Well we know the pieces are real.

[LeftInTX]

20. The city lights look too generic

[progressoid]

22. More specifically, a content provider called Marcel whose work is sold on Adobe Stock.

[sl8]

23. Thank you. n/t

[Mustellus]

29. yes. as a professional astronomer....

the sky part is the center of the milky way galaxy, which should be to the SOUTH, not hovering over the earth's north pole

[ruet]

33. Yup.

I wish that was the view we get looking north in the North.

[Biophilic]

6. Wow, what a shot. Amazing seeing something like this. So beautiful. nt

[LW1977]

7. I can see the the Twin Cities from there as well.

Minneapolis and St. Paul look like one ball of light.

[Deuxcents]

8. Just imagine..

Being on the space station and seeing this every night. Fantastic

[geardaddy]

12. Not just Chicago in there

I see the Twin Cities to the upper left.

[SergeStorms]

14. Fantastic picture.

That image is the stuff science fiction is made of.

Never in my lifetime did I ever imagine I'd see an actual photograph like that, showing so much of our world, and infinity in the same frame.

[electric_blue68]

15. Beautiful, but photoshopped...

I used 💖 Photoshop when I had it, so yeah...

But thinking this was an actual photo ... ah, well.

[Mr. Scorpio]

16. It's a freaking shame that I can't see this on the ground in SE MI

Light pollution.

[Fla Dem]

17. SPACEtacular !!!!!

[LeftInTX]

21. Here is how the aurora looks from the ISS

https://www.cnet.com/news/earth-glows-green-in-epic-aurora-image-from-the-international-space-station/

[Itchinjim]

25. Along with Peoria, Rockford, the Quad Cities, Iowa City/Cedar Rapids,

Des Moines and Omaha. Pretty much the entire midwest.

[jaxexpat]

26. ...and God said, "let there be a massive and unsustainable release of fixed carbon".

[Stuart G]

27. That was not my God, it was the "Evil Devil" who said that ...the exact same one...who said,

"Let There Be War"

[DFW]

28. Amazing photo! Deserves a caption by George Harrison

And to see you're really only very small
And life flows on within you and without you

[calimary]

30. Fabulous!!!!!

Earthly lights and celestial lights! That kinda covers everything!

Absolutely breathtaking!

[Martin Eden]

35. Mayor Lightfoot should have that hanging in her office.

As a lifelong resident of Chicagoland I just might frame that photo myself.