Credit & Copyright: Lynn Hilborn
Explanation:
Blasting skyward
an Atlas V rocket carrying a U.S. Navy satellite
pierces a cloud bank in this starry
night
scene captured on January 20.
On its way to orbit from Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station, planet Earth, the rocket streaks past brightest star
Sirius,
as seen from a dark beach at Canaveral National Seashore.
Above the alpha star of Canis Major, Orion the Hunter
strikes a pose
familiar to northern winter skygazers.
Above Orion is the V-shaped Hyades star cluster, head of Taurus the
Bull, and farther still above Taurus it's easy to spot
the compact Pleiades star cluster.
Of course near the top of the frame you'll find the greenish coma
and long tail of Comet Lovejoy, astronomical darling of
these January nights.
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