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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.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Earth - clouds - Milky Way
Publications with words: Earth - clouds - Milky Way
See also:
- APOD: 2024 November 24 Á Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
- Interplanetary Earth
- Earthset from Orion
- APOD: 2024 November 19 Á Undulatus Clouds over Las Campanas Observatory
- APOD: 2024 November 5 Á Milky Way over Easter Island
- APOD: 2024 August 4 Á Gaia: Here Comes the Sun
- APOD: 2024 July 29 Á Milky Way over Uluru