2023-12-27 14:01:11
It is enigmatic, imposing and owner of a magnetic beauty. Buenos Aires, the city that never sleeps, always has to offer an attraction to its citizens and tourists who are passing through, trying to treasure pleasant moments to take with them as souvenirs. This city has nothing to envy in radiance and variety of options to Las Vegas or so many other dazzling cities in the world, so much so that its light even It captures the attention and melancholic gaze of the astronauts.
Years and light years separate the Argentine city known as the “Paris of South America” from the International Space Station from NASAHowever, its occupants, from the black immensity of space, far beyond the stratosphere, look with amazement and melancholy towards the tangled scheme of lights drawn by the X-ray of Buenos Aires.
From its orbit, located approximately 408 kilometers above the surface of our planet, the International Space Station is a unique observatory that allows you to contemplate the Earth in all its magnificence. This space laboratory offers a unique and dazzling perspective during the night hours: cities illuminated with a view from the immensity of the cosmos. Thus, the photographs are revealed as a spectacle of lights and shadows, straight and curvilinear patterns, all taken by the cameras installed on board the ISS.
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Cosmopolitan X-ray
A striking image of Buenos Aires as never seen before, but shining with the same strength, so much so that its light literally reaches the stars. The International Space Station released several postcards worthy of being classified as works of art. The city cradle of tango is seen as a characteristic display of lights and shadows that outline the main arteries of Buenos Aires.
From the height of the space station it is not very complex to identify the geometric arrangement of the main avenues of Buenos Aires. In fact, among the lights and flashes from Earth’s orbit, the characteristic grid that diagrams the city stands out.
Like a luminous point that stands out on a black canvas, the city offers different points of reference that become evident: among them, the iconic Obelisk in the heart of Avenida 9 de Julio, it stands out like a beacon in a sea of lights. Thus, the panoramic night view of Buenos Aires shines brightly, drawing its streets and avenues an intricate network of lights that gives life to the metropolis and fills with emotion those who seek to live a unique experience.
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The nighttime of big cities
Among the images released by NASA from its Space Station, you can also see the luminous x-ray of the cities of New York, Rio de Janeiro, Dubai, San Francisco, Barcelona, Istanbul, Tokyo, Cairo, Rome, Paris, London, Seoul and Chicago.
The truth is that when the Earth enters the cone of shadows, the great cities of the world mark their presence with their lights, outlining their contours with the most intricate patterns of light. The different images, like radiographic plates, show the life of the cities, and also reflect the chaos or order of their intertwined urban arteries. Although each image reflects the particularities of a city very different from the others, map and urban planning enthusiasts will be able to recognize each of the cities with some ease even from the view of an astronaut.
Although the images were published by NASA in 2017, they are once again a trend on social networks and provoke the same fascination as years ago. The Twitter user Joaquim Campa collected them and became popular again in an unmissable thread of tweets. Additionally, for those interested in living the exciting experience of observing their city from space, you can visit the website “Cities at Night” (Cities at night), a database and selection of night images taken from the ISS of different cities on the planet, which comfort the souls of fans of the genre.
Traces of the development of humanity
Looking at these images allows us to reflect and become aware of the presence of humanity, so tiny in the immensity of space, but with a forceful footprint that is also made visible by urban life. With the naked eye you can detect, due to their intense lighting, the densely populated urban areas that stand out as unmistakable landmarks easily identifiable.
But, at the opposite extreme to the luminosity that bears witness to human activity, progress and development, extensive areas that contrast in their deep darkness can also be viewed from the ISS. This well-known variability in luminosity speaks not only of the expansion of cities, but also accounts for the relationship between urbanization and the natural environment that surrounds them. Regions that interrupt the urban glow and point out other less populated, less developed centers without the blinding light that speaks of the splendor of great cities like Buenos Aires, which shines resplendently even from the sky and beyond.
Christmas image
In turn, a new image was released just a few days ago. NASA shared cosmic images of an incredible star cluster that was very timely for Christmas festivities. It is, as detailed by the space organization, a young star cluster called NGC 2264which became popularly known as cluster of “Christmas trees“.
For now, humanity continues to look up to the sky, and from there the astronauts look with melancholy each night that gives them images of the different cities from the cosmos, millions of light years from home.
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