A Universe in My Basement

Lately, I’ve been looking at pictures of Jupiter taken by the Juno Spacecraft. I have always been fascinated by astrophotography and have always wanted to take pictures of planets myself. 

However, I don't own or have access to a billion dollar NASA satellite. I’m settling for finding objects here on earth that look like planets. In this case, paint cans that haven’t been opened in over a year.

I call them Paint Planets.


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My hope to find more paint can't the I can open up and continue to create this images. I want to explore the idea of finding planets everywhere I go, and I hope I can share them with you as I discover them. 

 Thank you for reading.

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