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Credit & Copyright: Michael Abramyan
Explanation:
Does the road to our galaxy's center go through
Monument Valley?
It doesn't have to, but if your road does -- take a picture.
In this case, the road is
US Route 163
and iconic buttes on the
Navajo National
Reservation populate the horizon.
The band of Milky Way Galaxy stretches down from the sky and appears to be a
continuation of the road on
Earth.
Filaments of dust darken the
Milky Way, in contrast to
billions of bright stars and several
colorful glowing gas clouds including the
Lagoon and
Trifid nebulas.
The featured picture is a composite of images
taken with the same camera and from the same location --
Forest Gump Point in
Utah,
USA.
The foreground was taken just after sunset in early September during the
blue hour,
while the background is a mosaic of four exposures captured a few hours later.
Discovery + Outreach:
Graduate student research position open for APOD
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A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Galactic Center
Publications with words: Galactic Center
See also:
- APOD: 2024 April 1 Á Swirling Magnetic Field around Our Galaxys Central Black Hole
- Milky Way Rising
- APOD: 2023 April 3 Á The Galactic Center Radio Arc
- The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT
- The Galactic Center in Stars, Gas, and Magnetism
- The Galactic Center in Infrared
- The Galactic Center from Radio to X ray