NASA delays SpaceX Crew-13 launch and plans SR-1 Freedom to Mars while astronomers confirm Planet Elias 2-24 b.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-27 00:21Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A sprawling space station orbits a vibrant blue planet with astronauts and scientists working together, surrounded by stars, planets, and spacecraft, under a warm golden light with a sense of discovery and wonder.
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 sprawling space station orbits a vibrant blue planet with astronauts and scientists working together, surrounded by stars, planets, and spacecraft, under a warm golden light with a sense of discovery and wonder. 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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DOD budget authority rises $56 billion in fourth quarter
US federal spending data shows the Department of Defense budget authority reached $2.63 trillion by the end of fiscal year 2026.
By Caleb Mbeki · 39mUS federal spending data shows the Department of Defense budget authority reached $2.63 trillion as of September 30, 2026, up from $2.58 trillion on June 30, 2026.
That increase of $56 billion closes the fourth quarter of federal fiscal year 2026, which runs from October 2025 through September 2026.
Federal spending data shows the amount of money the Department of Defense obligated rose to $1.43 trillion by September 30, 2026, compared to $1.29 trillion on June 30, 2026.
Federal spending data shows actual outlays for the Department of Defense totaled $1.27 trillion as of September 30, 2026, an increase from $1.15 trillion recorded on June 30, 2026.
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