Posted on 04/23/2016 11:47:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: A waning crescent moon, early morning twilight, and Al Hamra's city lights on the horizon can't hide the central Milky Way in this skyscape from planet Earth. Captured in a single exposure, the dreamlike scene looks southward across the region's grand canyon from Jabal Shams (Sun Mountain), near the highest peak in Oman, on the Arabian Peninsula. Mist, moonlight, and shadows still play along the steep canyon walls. Dark rifts along the luminous band of the Milky Way are the galaxy's cosmic dust clouds. Typically hundreds of light-years distant, they obscure starlight along the galactic plane, viewed edge-on from the Solar System's perspective.
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[Credit and Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)]
The universe is candy, mmmm.
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Looks like that cliff side is about to give away any second.....
If there were some statues carved into the cliff face, it would be under fire right now.
....or any millennium................
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