Credit & Copyright: Brad Goldpaint
(Goldpaint Photography)
Explanation:
What's older than these ancient trees?
Nobody you know -- but almost everything in the background of this picture.
The trees are impressively old -- each part of the
Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest located in eastern
California,
USA.
There, many of the
oldest trees known are
located, some dating as
far back as about
5,000 years.
Seemingly attached to tree branches,
but actually much farther in the distance, are the
bright orbs of
Saturn (left) and
Mars.
These planets
formed along with the
Earth and the early Solar System much earlier --
about 4.5 billion years ago.
Swooping down diagonally from the upper left is the oldest structure pictured: the
central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy --
dating back around
9 billion years.
The featured image
was built from several exposures all taken from the same location --
but only a
few weeks ago.
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