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Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Northern Winter Night
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 6 Feb, 2921 | Image Credit & Copyright: Lukasz Zak

Posted on 02/06/2021 2:22:59 PM PST by MtnClimber

Explanation: Snow blankets the ground in this serene forest and sky view. Assembled in a 360 degree panoramic projection, the mosaicked frames were captured at January's end along a quiet country road near Siemiony, northeastern Poland, planet Earth. The night was cold and between trees reaching toward the sky shine the stars and nebulae of the northern winter Milky Way. Near zenith is bright star Capella, a mere 43 light-years above the tree tops. Alpha star of the constellation Auriga the Charioteer and part of the winter hexagon asterism, Capella is a well-studied double star system. Follow the Milky Way above and right of Capella and you might spot the familiar stars of Orion in the northern winter night.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
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1 posted on 02/06/2021 2:22:59 PM PST by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 02/06/2021 2:23:21 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; America_Right; Art in Idaho; AZ .44 MAG; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

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3 posted on 02/06/2021 2:23:58 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Treey, treey night
Spread your branches overhead
Look out on a northern night
With eyes that post a poem on this thread.


4 posted on 02/06/2021 2:29:09 PM PST by DannyTN
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Looks like a Stormy Daniels money shot.


5 posted on 02/06/2021 2:31:55 PM PST by Rebelbase (COVID misanthrope)
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They didn’t need the car in the shot. JMHO


6 posted on 02/06/2021 2:43:55 PM PST by BipolarBob (It's all fun and games until Mrs. Bipolar catches me posting on Free Republic without permission.)
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Maybe they included the car for perspective, so that you can tell that the stars are really, really far away. Typical European-type license plate (wider than the US type).


7 posted on 02/06/2021 3:18:09 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: BipolarBob

I guess an accomplice, if there was one, could have driven the car out of sight for the shot. Probably the shot was taken by a person working alone.

On another level, this would make a good car advertisement if you could make out the car brand.


8 posted on 02/06/2021 3:22:27 PM PST by diatomite (That grifter crook Biden or Kamella isn't my president and never will be!! Resist!!)
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