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ALT An ethereal patch of a dark starry sky with millions of tiny dots of light scattered across the image evenly. Mystical swathes of light blue clouds are seeping in from the edges of the picture. Most light sources appear as little points scattered across the dark background, with just a few of them standing out brighter than the rest. A bright, golden yellow star in the upper right quarter of the image draws particular attention. The wispy clouds framing the outskirts of the picture seem to be moving into the image centre and dampen the light of the stars behind. The largest patch of these is visible in the lower left of the picture. In the centre of the upper half of the picture there is a black tilted rectangle devoid of any colour which seems as if a part of the image had been wiped with an eraser.
ALT A wide, elongated black background with a long blueish patched-up field of stars, galaxies, and wispy clouds in the upper left diagonal of the image. This patchy mosaic consists of multiple almost square photographs, that are arranged in a shape that loosely resembles a thin, pixelated whale diving towards the bottom left of the image. The myriad of sparkling galaxies and stars in this mosaic crowd together to create the impression of a dark-grey field with frequent speckles of bright pastel yellow, red and blue dots of light at an even distribution. A streak of silver-blue diffuse clouds in a half-elliptical shape in the left half of the image, as well as a small round patch just right of the centre stand out particularly. At three spots right of the image centre there are small rectangular holes in the mosaic. Here, the pitch-black background is peaking through and stands in stark contrast to the sparkling image field.
ALT Social anthropologist Steven Vertovec, director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Credit: MPI-MMG