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Credit & Copyright: Taha Ghouchkanlu
(TWAN)
Explanation:
A
postcard from planet Earth, this springtime night skyscape
looks over Alandan lake in the Alborz mountains.
Taken
after local midnight
on April 17, the central Milky Way
is rising over the region's southeast horizon.
Its luminous track of stars and nebulae
along the plane of our galaxy are reflected in
the mirror-like lake.
The brightest celestial beacon mingled with the diffuse galactic
starlight is Jupiter.
Slightly dimmer, Saturn is below and left just above the mountains.
As spring brought leaves to the trees and
the galactic center to the northern night
the photographer found it also
gave frogs their voices,
heard like a melody across the calm water.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
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See also:
- APOD: 2024 November 24 Á Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
- 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
- APOD: 2024 May 29 Á Stairway to the Milky Way
- APOD: 2023 December 12 Á Aurora and Milky Way over Norway
- Milky Way Rising