Comment by NoSalt
6 months ago
What is that, an image for ants???
I absolutely cannot stand it when a site, especially a government site, doesn't post the original, high resolution, images. However, it seems like it's an archeological expedition to find the high resolution, high quality image.
For those too lazy to go digging:
https://cdn.xcancel.com/pic/orig/7498ED4A7CB57/media%2FGu8ks...
Original tweet: https://xcancel.com/Astro_Ayers/status/1940810789830451563
A link to an even higher resolution image was posted hours earlier:
https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2025/07/Nichole-Ayers-S...
Thank you, I don't think it's too unreasonable when talking about an amazing image to link to the image in the article to be fair.
From lfaw explanation linked below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44939514
"The phenomenon took place at roughly 29°N 101.5°W over Coahuila, Mexico." That's ~50 miles from the Ciudad Acuña / Del Rio border crossing with Texas.
Surely X isn't the sole source for this?
Sure, why not? It's the sole source for a lot of things, just like reddit is the sole source for a lot of other things, so why go anywhere else?
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Thank you!
Also all the social media links are wrong lol. I clicked on the instagram link to "nasascience" expecting to find a higher quality photo and it turned out to be some random Turkish dude with 3 posts and 1 follower.