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Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka
(AstroPics.com, TWAN)
Explanation:
Why take a picture of just the
Badlands when you can take one that also
shows the spectacular sky above it?
Just such a picture, actually a digital stitched panorama of four images,
was taken in late June near midnight, looking southwest.
In the foreground, the
unusual buttes of the Badlands Wall, part of the
Badlands National Park in
South Dakota,
USA, were momentarily illuminated by flashlight
during a long duration exposure of the background night sky.
The mountain-like buttes
visible are composed of soft rock that show sharp erosion features from wind and
water.
The South Dakota Badlands also contain ancient beds rich with easy-to-find fossils.
Some fossils are over 25 million years old and hold clues to the evolutionary origins
of the horse and the
saber-toothed tiger.
Bright Jupiter dominates the sky on the left just above the buttes,
while the spectacular
Milky Way Galaxy
runs down the image right.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: Milky Way
Publications with words: Milky Way
See also:
- APOD: 2025 May 20 B Milky Way over Maunakea
- APOD: 2025 May 13 B Gaia Reconstructs a Top View of our Galaxy
- APOD: 2025 May 12 B Gaia Reconstructs a Side View of our Galaxy
- Galaxies in Space
- APOD: 2025 February 9 B Milky Way over the Australian Pinnacles
- APOD: 2024 November 24 B Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
- APOD: 2024 November 5 B Milky Way over Easter Island