Edit: The artist used a specialized epifluorescence microscope, which uses specific wavelengths of light to make certain minerals and elements “glow” or fluoresce. When hit with the right light, they reflect and refract that light in ways that look like stars and planets.
So, while the image represents a real physical object, it is an artistic interpretation using scientific tools.
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Return to star dust.
We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion-year-old carbon
Wishes and starlight finally visible. So beautiful.
Why the luminescence?
Looks like a windows screen saver to be honest XD.
Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom’s a junkie
Strung out in heaven’s high
Hitting an all-time low
What kind of microscope? Might have to dig some of my dad out to confirm 🤓
Is it in focus? Everything seems blurry
I call bullshit
CRAZY
All ash would look like that with this back lighting
Backlit by Christmas lights.
Sure thing buddy
gonna call bs on this. I’ve touched and poured ashes and it’s basically just grey looking kitty litter
Example of how to fail to prepare a microscope slide 101: dry slide with no oil or liquid carrier, and no glass slip screen.
Source?
This is by Gabriela Reyes Fuchs, a Mexican artist. You should’ve included that in your post. It is not AI.
If anyone wants to read more:
[We Are Made of Stars: A Look at Human Ashes Under a High Powered Microscope](https://christenobrien.medium.com/we-are-made-of-stars-a-look-at-human-ashes-under-a-high-powered-microscope-12f56d97e31a)
[Dead Soon Project](https://www.lensculture.com/projects/410923-dead-soon)
And there is also a TedxTalk: [What I Discovered in the Ashes of My Father | Gabriela Reyes Fuchs](https://youtu.be/9jLrqvDBnVs?si=cuC7mZNddyvP49TL)
Edit: The artist used a specialized epifluorescence microscope, which uses specific wavelengths of light to make certain minerals and elements “glow” or fluoresce. When hit with the right light, they reflect and refract that light in ways that look like stars and planets.
So, while the image represents a real physical object, it is an artistic interpretation using scientific tools.
https://preview.redd.it/whq2bb1zwkng1.jpeg?width=1140&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=457d49acae87b36d2a5eab9007c13416b918fdcb
Per Google- take it with a grain of….human cremains?
All we are.. is dust in the wind, dude.
Fuck off, OP. That’s my boogers from a drone shot.
“All we are is dust in the wind, dude. Dust….wind!” –Ted, from *Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.*
Why are there little copyright symbols floating in the ashes?
OP is an AI , move on people
WoW 😳
we are all stardust
