> I’m not a researcher, and when I look at that photo, I feel like the sky is being stolen. Unfortunately photos often distort reality, (which is the author's

> I’m not a researcher, and when I look at that photo, I feel like the sky is being stolen. Unfortunately photos often distort reality, (which is the author's intent here). They purposefully stacked the multiple images in such a way to amplify the satellites clarity, rather than stacking them in a way that would instead have resulted in a clear sky but a slightly elevated noise floor.