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Credit & Copyright: Dan Zafra
Explanation:
Northern winter
constellations and a long arc of the Milky Way
are setting in this night skyscape looking toward the Pacific Ocean from
Point
Reyes on
planet
Earth's
California coast.
Sirius, alpha star of Canis Major, is prominent below the starry arc
toward the left.
Orion's yellowish
Betelgeuse, Aldebaran in Taurus, and the blue tinted
Pleiades star cluster
also find themselves between
Milky Way and northwestern horizon near the center of the scene.
The nebulae visible in the series of exposures used to construct
this panoramic view were captured in early March,
but are just too faint to be seen with the unaided eye.
On that northern night their
expansive glow includes
the reddish semi-circle of Barnard's Loop
in Orion and
NGC 1499 above and right of the Pleiades, also known as the
California Nebula.
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See also:
- APOD: 2025 February 9 Á Milky Way over the Australian Pinnacles
- 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