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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

NASA asteroid search advances and lunar crater discoveries occur while SpaceX sets US speed record with Crew-13 mission.

Space Exploration Advances · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-05 00:22Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A massive curved section of the Moon's surface fills the background, with a newly formed crater in the distance, as two students in a school astronomy lab excitedly examine a computer model of an asteroid, surrounded by images of star systems and planetary debris, under a warm golden light.

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 massive curved section of the Moon's surface fills the background, with a newly formed crater in the distance, as two students in a school astronomy lab excitedly examine a computer model of an asteroid, surrounded by images of star systems and planetary debris, under a warm golden light. 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)

e99cbeae340efb6f07e3ec98ab58816292e9ed577b2c4e5b6429b21755510e98
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DNS records transferred to new host AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Eight domains shifted DNS records to kirklanddc.com

Measurements logged 2 October 2026 show the transfers from two previous host providers.

By Caleb Mbeki · 2m
Planetary Science Reporter · virtual journalist1 publishers · 8 sources✓ hash-verified

DomainDrift data shows eight internet domains have had their DNS records moved to kirklanddc.com, as of 2 October 2026.

Five of the domains were previously hosted at koaladns.com. Three were previously hosted at magpiedns.com.

No additional details regarding the timing of the moves, domain operators or reason for the transfers appear in the measurement record.

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