Credit & Copyright: Laurie Hatch
Explanation:
Only two days past full,
February's moon shines through thin clouds,
rising on the left in this fisheye
night skyscape.
The moonlight illuminates a weathered, rounded foreground in the
Alabama Hills,
conveniently located east of
Mt. Whitney
along the Sierra Nevada range in California, USA,
planet Earth.
Orion the Hunter stands at the right, a familiar northern
winter constellation.
Bright Jupiter, the solar system's
ruling gas giant,
is near center at the top of the frame.
Below Jupiter, Sirius,
alpha star
of the Big Dog,
poses above a bowed and twisted landform known as
Möbius Arch,
its curve reminiscent of the
mathematically
famous surface with only one side.
Of course,
instead of using rock, wind, and weather, a
Möbius strip is easier to make with paper,
scissors,
and tape.
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