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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Небеса на земле http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1162395/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Naoyuki Kurita
Explanation:
If sometimes it appears that the entire
Milky Way Galaxy is raining down on your head,
do not despair.
It happens twice a day.
As the
Sun rises in the East,
wonders of the night sky become less bright than the
sunlight scattered by our own
Earth's atmosphere, and so fade from view.
They will only rotate back into view when the
Earth again eclipses our bright Sun at
dusk.
This battle between heaven and Earth was
captured dramatically above during the
last few minutes of daylight on 1999 August 10 in Koumi,
Japan.
Dark
dust, millions of
stars, and bright glowing
red gas highlight the
plane of our
Milky Way Galaxy,
which lies on average thousands of
light years behind
Earth's yellow and green reflecting
clouds.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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rights apply.
A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.