The only thing it reminds me of is the Aurora Borealis (sp?).

OK MBM, it's been a month, are you going to tell us what it is?

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Originally posted by umbrarchist:

OK MBM, it's been a month, are you going to tell us what it is?

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Originally posted by MBM:

It's a view taken from a NASA probe looking back toward Earth as it leaves our solar system. You'll notice Earth is the tiny little white dot in the photo.

What is the source of that picture MBM?

Did they explain what those colored streaks are?

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From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera. Earth was a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Coincidentally, Earth lies right in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the sun. This blown-up image of the Earth was taken through three color filters -- violet, blue and green -- and recombined to produce the color image. The background features in the image are artifacts resulting from the magnification.

http://www.spaceimages.com/palebluedot.html

and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

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This blown-up image of the Earth was taken through three color filters -- violet, blue and green -- and recombined to produce the color image. The background features in the image are artifacts resulting from the magnification.

Thanks Listener.

Very tricky MBM. I was looking for real phenomenon to create what really wasn't in the picture.

What grade do I get for effort?

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