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Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Munoz
Explanation:
A small crystal ball seems to hold a whole galaxy in this
creative
snapshot.
Of course,
the galaxy is
our own Milky Way.
Its luminous central bulge marked by rifts of interstellar
dust spans thousands of light-years.
On this long southern hemisphere night it filled
dark Chilean skies
over Paranal Observatory.
The single exposure image did not require a Very Large
Telescope, though.
Experiments with
a digital camera on a tripod and crystal
ball perched on a handrail outside the Paranal Residencia
produced the evocative, cosmic marble portrait of our home galaxy.
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& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
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