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Credit & Copyright: Tomas Slovinsky
Explanation:
What stars shine in Earth's northern hemisphere during winter?
The featured image highlights a number of
bright stars visible earlier this month.
The image is a 360-degree horizontal-composite
panorama of 66 vertical frames
taken consecutively with the same camera and from the same location at about 2:30
am.
Famous stars visible in the picture include
Castor & Pollux
toward the southeast on the left,
Sirius just over the horizon toward the south,
Capella
just over the arch of the
Milky Way Galaxy toward the west, and
Polaris toward the north on the right.
Captured by coincidence
is a
meteor on the far left.
In the foreground is the
Museum of the Orava Village in
Zuberec,
Slovakia.
This
village recreates rural life
in the region hundreds of years ago,
while the image captures a timeless sky surely familar to village residents, a
sky also shared with northern residents around the
world.
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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: night sky
Publications with words: night sky
See also:
- APOD: 2024 September 11 Á A Night Sky over the Tatra Mountains
- APOD: 2023 August 15 Á A Triply Glowing Night Sky over Iceland
- Sunset to Sunrise over the Baltic Sea
- An Artful Sky over Lofoten Islands
- A Furious Sky over Mount Shasta
- Sea and Sky Glows over the Oregon Coast
- Stars and Planets over Portugal