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Credit & Copyright: Dave Lane
Explanation:
The Milky Way was not created by an evaporating lake.
The colorful pool of water, about 10 meters across, is known as
Silex Spring and is located in
Yellowstone National Park in
Wyoming, USA.
Illuminated artificially, the colors are caused by layers of
bacteria that grow in the
hot spring.
Steam rises off
the spring, heated by underground
magma associated with the
Yellowstone Hotspot.
Unrelated and far in the distance, the
central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy arches high overhead, a band lit by billions of stars.
The picture features a 16-image panorama taken in 2014.
If the
Yellowstone Hotspot
causes another supervolcanic eruption
as it did about
640,000 years ago, a
large part of North America would be affected.
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Milky Way
Publications with words: Milky Way
See also:
- APOD: 2026 April 19 Á Eye on the Milky Way
- APOD: 2026 March 25 Á The Guardians of Rapa Nui beneath the Milky Way
- APOD: 2025 November 3 Á A Double Helix Lunar Eclipse
- APOD: 2025 July 2 Á Milky Way Through Otago Spires
- APOD: 2025 May 20 Á Milky Way over Maunakea
- APOD: 2025 May 13 Á Gaia Reconstructs a Top View of our Galaxy
- APOD: 2025 May 12 Á Gaia Reconstructs a Side View of our Galaxy