It’s an AI version of a much lower resolution video. I’ve found it on Instagram, but most likely a link to that will have Reddit’s AI removing this comment.
SmallRocks on
A google image search gave 3 very recent sources, X, Threads, and FB.
This is image is very recent and my guess is that it’s AI or fabricated in some way.
_CMDR_ on
This picture is only 3 days old. It has no sources that are from A an astronaut or B NASA. Unless it is a Chinese space station shot it is almost certainly AI or a painting.
beikbeikbeik on
Doesn’t the sun needs to go through the atmosphere to look have the orange sunset color?
Tyran_Cometh on
Thank you everyone, I already did search in google reverse search before posting but it didn’t help me. If this is really IA once again I can’t refrain to think that we are doomed.
Regardless I would like to put it as a phone wallpaper but I’m not putting an AI generated image. Does anyone know of any real similar shots in high quality ?
GeoENFP on
This image looks to be a cropped image of one of the images floating around on istock for years now. I’ve actually downloaded the full scale version.
lesimgurian on
You can ask chatgpt or gemini to upscale to 8k. Works pretty good.
It’s a beautiful image, but without a clear source it’s hard to treat it as real observational data.
With AI images getting this convincing, context and attribution are becoming just as important as the visuals themselves.
BigCicadabd on
I searched and searched but couldn’t find anything, buuuut if it’s not AI, it probably is from the ISS, there are a lot of ISS sunset earth images
Ph4zed_out on
Isn’t this a screen grab from one of the Transformer movie intros? Looks very familiar, but yeah it’s CG
Malinut on
Early shuttle mission, first published outside NASA/United Space Alliance in National Geographic.
Oops, no sorry, it’s not that one. Methinks this is computer generated imagery based on that one, which has a large thunder head cloud in the middle.
Tintoverde on
“It’s faaaaaake”.gif. The sun is not that small at distance
lowercaseyao on
I’m pretty sure this was a portfolio piece by an environment artist (3D artist for game development or vfx for tv/movies). I remember seeing his portfolio, and his niche was realistic renderings of earth from orbit.
JeffreyinKodiak on
Ai offers many resolutions, I thought? Idk.
jakbutler on
Reminds me of opening credits from BBC’s Planet Earth (each one has similar shots)
0Pat on
Looks a bit like the KSP screenshot 🤷
squashua on
Is this a computer generated still image from a movie?
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|CoM|Center of Mass|
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If all you’re looking for is a new screen graphic, why not personalize it a bit?
Instead of going for this particular image, grab one of your own.
For example, the [GOES full disk geocolor](https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk.php?sat=G19) image updates every 5 minutes, so pick a time you like and grab the image then. It’ll never show up on reverse image search because why would they archive a huge image that updates every 5 minutes? There is an archive of images for this, though I don’t know how far back it goes.
Similarly, you can grab your own frames from the [high definition video streaming of earth from ISS](https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/esrs/hdev/). You’ll have to put in some work to get an image at the right time, but it’ll be a completely unique image that you save off and no one else will have unless they happen to grab the same time too. There is no archive, once it’s gone it’s gone forever.
Good luck with that. Space is at a native 1080p to preserve the frame rate of the simulation.
Can_thank_me_later on
Great now I have to play Civ IV again. Baba Yetu…
Pieprzojad on
It’s from space. U can do such photos in space.
suchloc on
Sun is white. Our atmosphere catching some part of light waves and that’s why we see it more yellow than white. If the sun is low on the horizon, atmosphere is much more thick and sun is starting to be more orange/red because of the same physics. This picture could be made by man and it would be still ok and looks like this. But more probably is graphic design, no matter if it’s AI or other tools.
pixel_picsHockey91 on
I about 70% sure this is AI
ch4be4t on
Superman took that picture.
Automatic_Value3850 on
It’s a fake image. Ask AI to sharpen it for you
CujoSR on
Pretty sure the Universal logo is about to appear.
Forsaken-Jackfruit-1 on
Someone (I think it was Facebook) said that that image is the start of the universal studios opening
MrAratus on
I think that this picture is redacted version of [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/s/8MqNKyUDSy) (third picture), that was made by Midjourney. You can increase resolution with sites like IloveIMG
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I’ve seen a very similar image in an AI sub.
BRB…
[look at picture 3 here](https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/s/nlw1BcjIJg)
Try a google image search.
It’s an AI version of a much lower resolution video. I’ve found it on Instagram, but most likely a link to that will have Reddit’s AI removing this comment.
A google image search gave 3 very recent sources, X, Threads, and FB.
A reverse image search with [tineye](https://tineye.com/search/d9de6418be199ace380add45845cd2a39a17875e?tags=&sort=score&order=desc&page=1) showed 0 results.
This is image is very recent and my guess is that it’s AI or fabricated in some way.
This picture is only 3 days old. It has no sources that are from A an astronaut or B NASA. Unless it is a Chinese space station shot it is almost certainly AI or a painting.
Doesn’t the sun needs to go through the atmosphere to look have the orange sunset color?
Thank you everyone, I already did search in google reverse search before posting but it didn’t help me. If this is really IA once again I can’t refrain to think that we are doomed.
Regardless I would like to put it as a phone wallpaper but I’m not putting an AI generated image. Does anyone know of any real similar shots in high quality ?
This image looks to be a cropped image of one of the images floating around on istock for years now. I’ve actually downloaded the full scale version.
You can ask chatgpt or gemini to upscale to 8k. Works pretty good.
It’s a very cool image but has zero atmospheric haze, see this image from nasa: [https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/iss066e099391.jpg](https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/iss066e099391.jpg)
Enhance….
Enhance….
Enhance….
It’s a beautiful image, but without a clear source it’s hard to treat it as real observational data.
With AI images getting this convincing, context and attribution are becoming just as important as the visuals themselves.
I searched and searched but couldn’t find anything, buuuut if it’s not AI, it probably is from the ISS, there are a lot of ISS sunset earth images
Isn’t this a screen grab from one of the Transformer movie intros? Looks very familiar, but yeah it’s CG
Early shuttle mission, first published outside NASA/United Space Alliance in National Geographic.
Oops, no sorry, it’s not that one. Methinks this is computer generated imagery based on that one, which has a large thunder head cloud in the middle.
“It’s faaaaaake”.gif. The sun is not that small at distance
I’m pretty sure this was a portfolio piece by an environment artist (3D artist for game development or vfx for tv/movies). I remember seeing his portfolio, and his niche was realistic renderings of earth from orbit.
Ai offers many resolutions, I thought? Idk.
Reminds me of opening credits from BBC’s Planet Earth (each one has similar shots)
Looks a bit like the KSP screenshot 🤷
Is this a computer generated still image from a movie?
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|[CoG](/r/Space/comments/1q4207s/stub/nxqmzcv „Last usage“)|Center of Gravity (see CoM)|
|CoM|Center of Mass|
|[KSP](/r/Space/comments/1q4207s/stub/nxrnoqn „Last usage“)|*Kerbal Space Program*, the rocketry simulator|
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It looks like a movie poster.
If all you’re looking for is a new screen graphic, why not personalize it a bit?
Instead of going for this particular image, grab one of your own.
For example, the [GOES full disk geocolor](https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk.php?sat=G19) image updates every 5 minutes, so pick a time you like and grab the image then. It’ll never show up on reverse image search because why would they archive a huge image that updates every 5 minutes? There is an archive of images for this, though I don’t know how far back it goes.
Similarly, you can grab your own frames from the [high definition video streaming of earth from ISS](https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/esrs/hdev/). You’ll have to put in some work to get an image at the right time, but it’ll be a completely unique image that you save off and no one else will have unless they happen to grab the same time too. There is no archive, once it’s gone it’s gone forever.
Edit: that ISS feed doesn’t look at the horizon. [But this one does. ](https://www.youtube.com/live/fO9e9jnhYK8?si=2vhjy78s5X8UcvYt)
Logical Progression Volume 1.
Good luck with that. Space is at a native 1080p to preserve the frame rate of the simulation.
Great now I have to play Civ IV again. Baba Yetu…
It’s from space. U can do such photos in space.
Sun is white. Our atmosphere catching some part of light waves and that’s why we see it more yellow than white. If the sun is low on the horizon, atmosphere is much more thick and sun is starting to be more orange/red because of the same physics. This picture could be made by man and it would be still ok and looks like this. But more probably is graphic design, no matter if it’s AI or other tools.
I about 70% sure this is AI
Superman took that picture.
It’s a fake image. Ask AI to sharpen it for you
Pretty sure the Universal logo is about to appear.
Someone (I think it was Facebook) said that that image is the start of the universal studios opening
I think that this picture is redacted version of [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/s/8MqNKyUDSy) (third picture), that was made by Midjourney. You can increase resolution with sites like IloveIMG
https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ is an absolute gold mine for full resolution astronaut photos.
Some somewhat similar examples that I’ve saved (since they’re pretty pictures) are:
ISS059-E-6522
ISS063-E-50064
ISS061-E-66918