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Credit & Copyright: Ruslan Merzlyakov
(RMS Photography)
Explanation:
You have to take a
long hike to see the Troll's Tongue -- ten hours over rocky terrain.
And in this case, it took three trips to capture the
landform below a clear night sky.
Trolltunga itself is a
picturesque rock protrusion
extending about 700 meters over mountainous cliffs near
Lake Ringedalsvatnet in
Norway.
The overhang is made of billion-year-old
Precambrian
bedrock that was carved out by
glaciers during an ice-age about 10,000 years ago.
The featured
picture is a composite of two exposures, a 15-second image of the
foreground
Earth
followed 40 minutes later by an 87-second exposure of the
background sky.
Thousands of discernable stars dot the backdrop
starscape
in addition to billions of
unresolved stars in the nearly vertical
band of our Milky Way Galaxy.
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NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
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: 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