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Credit & Copyright: Jheison Huerta
Explanation:
What's being reflected in the world's largest mirror?
Stars, galaxies, and a planet.
Many of these stars are confined to the grand arch that runs across the image, an
arch that is the central plane of our home
Milky Way Galaxy.
Inside the arch is another galaxy -- the neighboring
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
Stars that are individually visible include
Antares on the far left and
Sirius on the far right.
The planet
Jupiter shines brightly just below
Antares.
The featured picture is composed of 15
vertical frames taken consecutively over ten minutes from the
Uyuni Salt Flat in
Bolivia.
Uyuni Salt Flat
(Salar de Uyuni) is the
largest
salt flat on
Earth
and is so large and so
extraordinarily flat that,
after a rain, it can become the world's largest mirror -- spanning 130 kilometers.
This expansive mirror
was captured in early April reflecting each of the galaxies, stars,
and planet mentioned above.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
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Publications with words: night sky
See also:
- APOD: 2024 September 11 Á A Night Sky over the Tatra Mountains
- APOD: 2023 August 15 Á A Triply Glowing Night Sky over Iceland
- Sunset to Sunrise over the Baltic Sea
- An Artful Sky over Lofoten Islands
- A Furious Sky over Mount Shasta
- Sea and Sky Glows over the Oregon Coast
- Stars and Planets over Portugal