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how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-26 01:08Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A futuristic spaceport at dusk with a massive rocket looming in the center, astronauts in orange suits walking towards it, and a giant screenless telescope in the background, with a dark blue sky and stars beginning to twinkle, as people of all ages gather to watch the launch, surrounded by sleek spacecraft models and lunar rovers.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A futuristic spaceport at dusk with a massive rocket looming in the center, astronauts in orange suits walking towards it, and a giant screenless telescope in the background, with a dark blue sky and stars beginning to twinkle, as people of all ages gather to watch the launch, surrounded by sleek spacecraft models and lunar rovers. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
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VLT detects bow shock outflow around white dwarf 730 light-years away
Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope observed an unexpected bow shock outflow around white dwarf RXJ0528+2838, located 730 light-years from Earth.
By Arjun Nair · 1hAstronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope observed an unexpected bow shock outflow around white dwarf RXJ0528+2838 located 730 light-years from Earth.
The observation was conducted using the MUSE instrument on the VLT in Chile, after hundreds of hours of exposure time.
The white dwarf's bow shock outflow was unexpected, though the study does not state what mechanism produced it or what it changes about current models.
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