by APOD Robot » Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:05 am
Milky Way Over Switzerland
Explanation: What's visible in the night sky during this time of year? To help illustrate the answer, a beautiful land, cloud, and skyscape was captured earlier this month over
Neuchâtel,
Switzerland. Visible in the foreground were the snow covered cliffs of the amphitheater shaped
Creux du Van, as well as distant trees, and town-lit clouds. Visible in the night sky (at midnight) were galaxies including the
long arch of the central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy, the
Andromeda galaxy (M31), and the
Triangulum galaxy (
M33). Star clusters visible included NGC 752,
M34,
M35,
M41, the
double cluster, and the Beehive (
M44). Nebulas visible included the Orion Nebula (
M42),
NGC 7822,
IC 1396, the
Rosette Nebula, the
Flaming Star Nebula, the
California Nebula, the
Heart and
Soul Nebulas, and the
Pacman Nebula. Rolling your cursor over the
above image will bring up
labels for
all of these. But the above
wide angle sky image captured even more sky wonders. What other nebulas
can you find in the above image?
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