lightofthelongmoment

Compare the im­ages from Daniel Eatock’s artist prompt, “Take a pho­to­graph of a light bulb at the pre­cise mo­ment you turn off the bulb”: Switched Off Photographs.

…To im­ages of the star Betelgeuse ap­proach­ing the end of its life, shared by Geoff Manaugh on BLDGBLOG: Dimming to Explode.

A light bulb at the moment the bulb is turned off; photo by Katie Ericson Betelgeuse, during dimming; photo by ESO, M. Montargès et al, via NASA

On a cos­mic scale, we mea­sure mo­ments in life­times.