Showing posts with label artists' impressions presented as real photographs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artists' impressions presented as real photographs. Show all posts

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Oh purleeze

Here's one of those little come-ons which the papers use on their websites to entice you to click.

It's from the current Times website, as it happens:

Anyone like to guess what's wrong with it? Here's a clue: it shows an image of an exoplanet (one outside our own solar system) transiting its star, leaving a trail of hydrogen gas in its wake... Now if that's not a sufficient clue, then I'm deeply, deeply disappointed, indeed gutted to the point of total evisceration...