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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Млечный Путь над Йеллоустоном http://variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1605764/eng |
Credit & Copyright: Lori Jacobs
Explanation:
The Milky Way was not created by an evaporating lake.
The pool
of vivid blue water, about 10 meters across, is known as
Silex Spring and is located in
Yellowstone National Park in
Wyoming,
USA.
Steam rises off
the spring, heated by a
magma chamber deep underneath known as the
Yellowstone hotspot.
The steam blurs the image of
Jupiter, making it seem unusually large.
Unrelated and far in the distance, the
central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy rises high overhead, a band lit by billions of stars.
The featured picture is a 3-image panorama taken last August.
If the Yellowstone hotspot causes another
supervolcanic eruption as
it did
640,000 years ago, a
large part of North America would be affected.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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A service of:
LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.