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Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi
(TWAN)
Explanation:
The Milky Way
is massively bright on this cold, clear, altiplano night.
At 4,500 meters its reflection in a river, a volcanic peak on the distant
horizon, is captured in this stitched panorama under
naturally dark skies of
the northern Chilean highlands
near San Pedro de Atacama.
Along the Solar System's ecliptic plane,
the band of Zodiacal light
also stands out, extending above the Milky Way toward the upper left.
In the scene from late April, brilliant Mars, Saturn, and Antares
form a bright celestial triangle where
ecliptic meets the center of the Milky Way.
Left of the triangle, the large purple-red emission nebula
Sharpless 2-27, more than twenty Moon diameters wide
is centered around star
Zeta Ophiuchi.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: Milky Way - night sky
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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 September 11 Á A Night Sky over the Tatra Mountains
- 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