Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Milky Way above Atacama Salt Lagoon

NASA ^ | September 16, 2014 | (see photo credit)

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Explanation: Galaxies, stars, and a serene reflecting pool combine to create this memorable land and skyscape. The featured panorama is a 12-image mosaic taken last month from the Salar de Atacama salt flat in northern Chile. The calm water is Laguna Cejar, a salty lagoon featuring a large central sinkhole. On the image left, the astrophotographer's fiancee is seen capturing the same photogenic scene. The night sky is lit up with countless stars, the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud galaxies on the left, and the band of our Milky Way galaxy running diagonally up the right. The Milky Way may appear to be causing havoc at the horizon, but those are just the normal lights of a nearby town.

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[Credit & Copyright: Alex Tudorica (AIfA, U. Bonn)]

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The Big One

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Its full of stars.

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Beautiful.

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and there weren’t even any candy bar jokes.

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You were trying to get a Snicker?

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You're to young to remember this one:

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Actually, that looks familiar. I mean, you are *way* older than me, ;’) but my family had connections with the ice cream business, now it’s mostly in the eating of it. Luckily, Breyer’s makes “Carb-smart”.

BTW, I think this is something I said I’d send:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZLNzFSP_9o

another source, oops, appears to be dead, good site though:

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/journey-to-10000-bc/

save the stream as an mp4 file:

http://keepvid.com/

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Got it.

Thanks.