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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Электрическая ночь http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1561980/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Ivan Pedretti
Explanation:
It may appear, at first, like the Galaxy is producing the lightning, but really it's
the Earth.
The featured
nighttime landscape
was taken from a southern tip of the
Italian Island of
Sardinia in early June.
The foreground rocks and shrubs are near the famous
Capo Spartivento Lighthouse,
and the camera is pointed south toward
Algeria in
Africa.
In the distance, across the
Mediterranean Sea, a
thunderstorm is
threatening, with several electric
lightning strokes caught together
during this 25-second
wide-angle exposure.
Much farther in the distance, strewn about the
sky, are hundreds of stars in the
neighborhood of our Sun in the
Milky Way Galaxy.
Furthest away, and slanting down from the upper left, are
billions of stars
that together compose the
central band of our Milky Way.
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