TIL a photography student sent blank negative film to a height of 36.5 km using a balloon. Cosmic rays burned into the film, revealing ethereal patterns not visible to the human eye.
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/astrophotography/photography-student-sends-film-into-space-and-ends-up-capturing-the-very-essence-of-the-universeOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
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Here are the pics.
Ripped the second image from Instagram and reuploaded to Lemmy
Wow, the stock Windows Vista wallpaper!
Anyone who's ever used a Polaroid would recognize these photo patterns
Our hero, thank you for your service! o7
Magnetic field lines could do something similar, but did it go through a storm weather or something then? Or something aurora like
Thanks OP cute read. Original article from the student here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c152gpqxkv0o ...unfortunately it seems like the pics are posted on insta.
Getting real tired of seeing cool art stuff and then they bury the leer with "check out the whole thing on twitter/insta/reddit" and if you bring up the issues with those platforms everyone trips over themselves to justify why their use of the neonazi-billionaire-pedo owned sites is justified...
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Thanks for the additional info!
hmmmm i doubt thats cosmic rays, seams more like extreme temperature and low presure did something to the films chemistry
Agreed. I'd think cosmic rays would leave linear marks since they are like atomic bullets.
UVC? So the film did get direct exposure? Because UVC should usualy not penetrate thru film can material.
It does just look like a light leak to me.
Seems like everybody is trying Too hard to make something out of nothing. Unless this was a repeatable result where the same coordinates in the sky at the exact altitudes produce the exact repeatable pattern, this is the equivalent on random spill/splash from liquids onto a piece of paper that was then dried. There are plenty of stuff up there besides cosmic rays that will interact with film.
This was not a physics experiment, this was an art project.
Too bad the TIL statement makes the art project be more than what is.
I don't know if I trust the photography student to explain the film's deterioration using physics terms
Back button hijack bullshit.
Here are the pictures.
I would have expected static.
Space is, like, cool.
Very, very cool.
Your own source stated that it was hot air.
Fixed it. Sorry.
The second paragraph of that source states it was a helium balloon. Also, the BBC article only describes it as helium.
They did it during daylight so there are no black holes involved. The stuff is coming from the sun. Anyway, still funny pictures