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Credit & Copyright: Shingo Takei
(TWAN)
Explanation:
Have you ever seen the Summer Triangle?
The bright stars
Vega,
Deneb, and
Altair form a large triangle on the sky that can be seen rising in the early
northern early spring during the morning and
rising in the northern fall during the evening.
During summer months, the
triangle can be found nearly overhead near midnight.
Featured here, the
Summer Triangle
asterism was captured last month from
Gunma,
Japan.
In the foreground, sporting a triangular shape of its own, is a flowering 500 year
old cherry tree,
standing about 15 meters tall.
The triangular
shape
of
the asterism
is only evident from the direction of Earth --
in actuality the
stars are thousands of light years apart in space.
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