Space Glam Shots: How Real Are They?

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The images NASA publishes of outer space seem too good to be true – are they? Joe DePasquale, the star-tist who prepares the cosmos for its close-ups, paints us a picture of how those images are made. Plus, NASA astronomer Michelle Thaller describes NASA’s brand new eye-in-the-sky. She says it’s about to blow our earthly little minds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You've reached the every little thing helpline. Please leave your message after the tone.
0:07.0	Hey, DLC. My name is Chris Callett from Charlotte, North Carolina. First time call in a long time this year.
0:14.0	Listen, Anna, question. We get a lot of cool pictures online from space.
0:20.0	I want to do no Arnold's photos real. Thanks.
0:24.0	Hello. Be me. What's up, Chris? It's Flora from LT. Hi, Flora. How's it going?
0:33.0	Chris from zero to blast off what level of space enthusiast are you?
0:38.0	Um, blast off. Very blast off. I started as a kid going to the local library.
0:49.0	I'm pretty much reading any book that Lavarbur and made a suggestion on reading rainbow.
0:55.0	Oh, yes. Yeah, he had a thing to space. So naturally, I just picked up on that and it just stopped.
1:02.0	And then of course, once I got older and I'm an 80s baby. So actually watching Ellie and the movie.
1:08.0	That just kind of cemented all of that into my brain. So I'm a space.
1:12.0	I love that. Ellie and did it for you because I think for me, I never wanted to think about outer space again after seeing you.
1:19.0	No, Lavarbur can walk me to the door, but Ellie and definitely asked me to have a seat and then move in.
1:28.0	What about Star Trek? Are you a Trekkie?
1:31.0	No, only because they do the warp speed thing and I hate I hate warp feed because every five seconds there's a spaceship zooming in the space.
1:42.0	And it just bothers me that the first thing they do in space is just to get to the next part of space as quickly as possible.
1:49.0	And I'm like, going in the space, you really want to just be going fast, limitlessly, unlimited speed.
1:55.0	I want to see everything.
1:59.0	You're like, take it in.
2:01.0	Like enjoy the journey.
2:03.0	Yes. What plan is, did you see what strange sites that you see before you met the green people and you know, colonize their planet?
2:12.0	What did you see?
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