This is the second picture of a series of four of the Licorne thermonuclear test in French Polynesia. Thanks for correcting the error, I had quite contradicting evidence, a search in Google showed many of those pictures when searching for Canopus. My mistake.
This is a scan of a (digitally restored) hardcopy of a picture taken by the French army which could be purchased in Tahiti at that time.
Don't forget to have a look at Phil Plait's blog entry on Bad Astronomy about the little pareidolia well hidden inside the flames - blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/08/13/nukeid...
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reparation-iphone 28 months ago | reply
Sympa l'effet. Je crois que je vais mettre cette superbe image, d'explosion, en fond d'ecran sur mon iPhone.
garfield H 16 months ago | reply
This image conveys man obsession with ripping the heart out of plane earth.
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Gideon Ben Joshua 4 months ago | reply
is it possible to use the picture (for NGO)? Who has the rights for it?
Pierre J. 4 months ago | reply
I don't know for sure. The unit has been disbanded for a long time, and the pictures from the series are used quite often, so I guess it's safe to use, especially for an NGO.