Astronomy Picture of the Day - Cygnus Mosaic 2010 - 2020

APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 11 Feb, 2021 | Image Credit & Copyright: J-P Metsavainio (Astro Anarchy)

[MtnClimber]

Explanation: In brush strokes of interstellar dust and glowing gas, this beautiful skyscape is painted across the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy near the northern end of the Great Rift and the constellation Cygnus the Swan. Composed over a decade with 400 hours of image data, the broad mosaic spans an impressive 28x18 degrees across the sky. Alpha star of Cygnus, bright, hot, supergiant Deneb lies at the left. Crowded with stars and luminous gas clouds Cygnus is also home to the dark, obscuring Northern Coal Sack Nebula and the star forming emission regions NGC 7000, the North America Nebula and IC 5070, the Pelican Nebula, just left and a little below Deneb. Many other nebulae and star clusters are identifiable throughout the cosmic scene. Of course, Deneb itself is also known to northern hemisphere skygazers for its place in two asterisms, marking a vertex of the Summer Triangle, the top of the Northern Cross.

[MtnClimber]

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[MtnClimber]

[NormsRevenge]

My brain looked like that after a wild night in Memphis in my yout’.

[NormsRevenge]

My brain looked like that after a wild night in Memphis in my yout’.

[MtnClimber]

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Use the instructions in post 1 to enlarge. The image is so large that stars are not readily visible until the image is enlarged.

[Repeal The 17th]

Odd link at “In brush strokes” (not a dog or a cat).

[AFB-XYZ]

One of the first things I’d like to do when I reach “The Other Side” is to go to all the places in the magnificent photos you’ve put up.

[minnesota_bound]

Where are all the photos of starships and aliens that come to earth for er.. probing reasons?

[gnickgnack2]

I see a galloping bison.

[MtnClimber]

Odd link at “In brush strokes” (not a dog or a cat).

Not sure about that one. Maybe a cat was hiding under a bush. Or maybe there was a catfish in the river.

[Red Badger]

I see a goofy face at the far right side....................

[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFEB9xLeLmY

[MtnClimber]

I once saw a picture of a nebula that looked like Nancy Pelosi with no bra. That made me afraid to look to closely. Now I just say it looks like a cheeseburger and I am done!

[Red Badger]