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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Mount Etna Milky Way
NASA ^ | 5 Jul, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: Gianni Tumino

Posted on 07/05/2024 11:51:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: A glow from the summit of Mount Etna, famous active stratovolcano of planet Earth, stands out along the horizon in this mountain and night skyscape. Bands of diffuse light from congeries of innumerable stars along the Milky Way galaxy stretch across the sky above. In silhouette, the Milky Way's massive dust clouds are clumped along the galactic plane. Also familiar to northern skygazers are bright stars Deneb, Vega, and Altair, the Summer Triangle straddling dark nebulae and luminous star clouds poised over the volcanic peak. The deep combined exposures reveal the light of active star forming regions along the Milky Way, echoing Etna's ruddy hue in the northern hemisphere summer's night.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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1 posted on 07/05/2024 11:51:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 07/05/2024 11:51:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 07/05/2024 11:52:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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Oh cr**....now I want a Milky Way Bar!!


4 posted on 07/05/2024 12:15:39 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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I’d be happy with a box of Milk Duds.


5 posted on 07/05/2024 1:27:01 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: MtnClimber

Beautiful. Mt. Etna is about the same latitude as Richmond, VA, or San Francisco.


6 posted on 07/05/2024 3:02:01 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Sacajaweau

3 musket... you know the thing.


7 posted on 07/05/2024 3:26:59 PM PDT by seabeeson
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To: MtnClimber

NICE!


8 posted on 07/05/2024 4:57:39 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: MtnClimber

Nice!

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2407/GianniTumino_Etna&MW_14mm_JPG_LOGO__2048pix.jpg


9 posted on 07/06/2024 7:44:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: MtnClimber

Just beautiful.


10 posted on 07/09/2024 1:24:09 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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