This video has some spectacular footage of the Milky Way viewed from the Atacama Desert in Chile.
There are some gaseous bodies visible which are well away from the mass center of the Milky Way. Does anyone know what they are?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGY5sLdyajk
Magnificent! Thanks.
Thank you for sharing. Absolutely GORGEOUS!
That said, y’all can see The Milky Way pretty much on any Summer evening from my front porch in SE Wisconsin.
The Milky Way seems so close you could bat it down with a broom! ;)
Treat yourselves! GTF OUT of the City! There’s a whole, big, UNFATHOMABLE Universe out there - and The Milky Way is just the START! :)
Some of the items that you think are gas clouds are actually star clouds. The rest could be the Gum nebula complex in Vela, the Eta Carina area, or the massive amount of interstellar gases around Antares/Rho Ophiuchus.
Wasn’t enough points of reference to get a good fix.
At minute 1:37 in your video is the Sagittarius part of the Milky way. The bright Orange star is Antares, to the left is the dark “Pipe Nebula” or the “horse”. To the very far left is 47 Tuc and the Small Magellanic cloud. We are in a marina in Daytona without good wifi, so, I can’t see details too well.
Most of the rest of the views appear to be either Carina or Sagittarius.
3:32 is the Large Magellanic cloud. 3:35 is the center of the galaxy (M8 and M20 are the two bright gas clouds on the right) After that is Eta Carina.
Bout the best I can do at this time of night. More questions? Please ask!
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