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Credit & Copyright: Serge Brunier
Explanation:
Climb up to 5000 meters (16,500 feet) above sea level, near
Cerro Chajnantor
in the northern
Chilean Andes,
and your night sky could encompass this cosmic vista.
Recorded from that
high and dry
locale, the spectacular fish-eye image features the myriad stars
and sprawling dust clouds of our
Milky Way Galaxy.
The direction toward the
center of the Galaxy is near the zenith
and center of the picture, but the
Galactic Center itself is hidden
from view, located far behind the obscuring dust.
Brilliant Jupiter rules this scene just above the
Milky Way's
central bulge with the noticeably fainter, yellowish,
giant star
Antares
to its right.
Small and faint, near the right edge of the picture is
one of the Milky Way's many
satellite
galaxies, the
Small Magellanic Cloud.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Jupiter
Publications with words: Jupiter
See also:
- APOD: 2025 April 2 Á Jupiter and Ring in Infrared from Webb
- APOD: 2025 March 9 Á Cyclones at Jupiters North Pole
- APOD: 2025 February 16 Á Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter
- Stereo Jupiter near Opposition
- APOD: 2024 November 3 Á Jupiter Abyss
- APOD: 2024 May 19 Á Jupiter Diving
- APOD: 2024 April 21 Á Perijove 16: Passing Jupiter