Astronomy Picture of the Day

                         Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our
 fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a
                           professional astronomer.

                                2019 January 27
                                      [2]
                   From the Northern to the Southern Cross
                Image Credit & Copyright: Nicholas [3] Buer [4]

Explanation: There is a road that connects the Northern [5]  to the Southern
Cross [6] but you have to be at the right place and time to see it. The road,
as pictured here, is actually the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy; the
right place, in this case, is dark Laguna Cejar [7]  in Salar de Atacama [8]
of Northern Chile [9] ; and the right time was in early October, just after
sunset. Many sky wonders were captured then, including the bright Moon [10] ,
inside the Milky Way [11]  arch; Venus [12] , just above the Moon; Saturn [13]
 and Mercury [14] , just below the Moon; the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
[15] satellite galaxies, on the far left; red airglow [16]  near the horizon
on the image left; and the lights of small towns at several locations across
the horizon [17] . One might guess that composing this 30-image panorama [18]
would have been a serene experience, but for that one would have required
earplugs to ignore the continued brays [19]  of wild donkey [20] s.

                        Tomorrow's picture: galaxy tail

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