Researchers take the ultimate Earth selfie

Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 07, 2020

Consider it Earth's ultimate mirror selfie. In a new study, a team led by astrophysicist Allison Youngblood at the University of Colorado Boulder set out to achieve something new in planetary photography: The group used the Hubble Space Telescope to try to view Earth as if it were an exoplanet - or a world orbiting a star many light years from our own. It wasn't easy: To capture Earth as a