Website review: APOD: 2006 August 1 - The Milky Wa...
starspirit discovered this in Astronomy
•4 reviews since Jul 31, 2006
astronomy, photography
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starspirit discovered 22 months ago- If sometimes it appears that the entire Milky Way Galaxy is raining down on your head, do not despair. It happens twice a day. As the Sun rises in the East, wonders of the night sky become less bright than the sunlight scattered by our own Earth's atmosphere, and so fade from view. They will only rotate back into view when the Earth again eclipses our bright Sun at dusk. This battle between heaven and Earth was captured dramatically over a rock formation at Capitol Reef National Park Utah, USA in 2003 May. Dark dust, millions of stars, and bright glowing red gas highlight the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which lies on average thousands of light years behind Earth's mountains.
- ericthehamster rated 20 months ago
Yet another spectacular image forwarded by Starspirit.
Although one reviewer wonders whether this was Photoshopped (and there may have been some manipulation), I remember being in Colorado and seeing a similarly breathtaking sky which was almost frightening to look at (we don't get these skies in the UK - I can see what Isaac Asimov was getting at in Nightfall).
From the page: "If sometimes it appears that the entire Milky Way Galaxy is raining down on your head, do not despair.
It happens twice a day. As the Sun rises in the East, wonders of the night sky become less bright than the sunlight scattered by our own Earth's atmosphere, and so fade from view.
They will only rotate back into view when the Earth again eclipses our bright Sun at dusk.
This battle between heaven and Earth was captured dramatically over a rock formation at
Capitol Reef National Park Utah, USA in 2003 May.
Dark dust, millions of stars, and bright glowing red gas highlight the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy,
which lies on average thousands of light years behind Earth's mountains."
Pure poetry!
- khidhala rated 22 months ago
- Neat photo, but IMHO, a Photoshopped one. The kind of exposure time that is required to get such detail on astronomical entities would mandate that the foreground would blur out of range.
- OliviaB rated 22 months ago
- thanx starspirit
The Milky Way over Utah Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (Astropics.com) Explanation: If sometimes it appears that the entire Milky Way Galaxy is raining down on your head, do not despair. It happens twice a day. As the Sun rises in the East, wonders of the night sky become less bright than the sunlight scattered by our own Earth's atmosphere, and so fade from view. They will only rotate back into view when the Earth again eclipses our bright Sun at dusk. This battle between heaven and Earth was captured dramatically over a rock formation at Capitol Reef National Park Utah, USA in 2003 May. Dark dust, millions of stars, and bright glowing red gas highlight the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which lies on average thousands of light years behind Earth's mountains. - thanx starspirit
