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Credit & Copyright: LI Hang
Explanation:
It was one of the better skies of this long night.
In parts of
Antarctica, not only is it winter, but the Sun can spend weeks below the horizon.
At
China's
Zhongshan Station,
people sometimes venture out into the cold to photograph a spectacular night sky.
The featured image from one such outing was taken in mid-July of 2015,
just before the end of this
polar night.
Pointing up, the
wide angle lens
captured not only the ground at the bottom, but at the top as well.
In the foreground, a colleague is taking pictures.
In the distance, a spherical satellite receiver and several
windmills
are visible.
Numerous stars dot the night sky, including
Sirius and
Canopus.
Far in the background,
stretching overhead from horizon to horizon, is the
central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy.
Even further in the distance, visible as extended smudges near the top, are the
Large and
Small Magellanic
Clouds, satellite galaxies near our huge
Milky Way Galaxy.
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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 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