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Credit & Copyright: Stefan Liebermann
Explanation:
What planet is this?
It is the only planet currently known to have trees.
The trees in
Deadvlei,
though, have been dead for over 500 years.
Located in
Namib-Naukluft Park in
Namibia
(Earth), saplings grew after rainfall caused a
local river to overflow,
but died after
sand dunes shifted to section off the river.
High above and far in the distance, the band of our
Milky Way Galaxy forms an arch over a large stalk in this
well-timed composite image, taken last month.
The soil of white
clay appears to glow by reflected
starlight.
Rising on the left, under the Milky Way's arch, is a band of
zodiacal light -- sunlight reflected by dust orbiting
in the inner Solar System.
On the right, just above one of
Earth's
larger
sand dunes, an
astute
eye can find the
Large Magellanic Cloud,
a satellite galaxy of our galaxy.
Finding the
Small Magellanic Cloud in the
featured image, though, is perhaps too hard.
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& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Milky Way
Publications with words: Milky Way
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 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
- Milky Way Rising