by APOD Robot » Mon Apr 18, 2022 4:08 am
Stars and Planets over Portugal
Explanation: The mission was to document night-flying birds -- but it ended up also documenting a beautiful sky. The
featured wide-angle mosaic was taken over the
steppe golden fields in
Mértola,
Portugal in 2020. From such a dark location, an immediately-evident
breathtaking glow arched over the night sky: the central band of our
Milky Way galaxy. But this sky had much more. Thin clouds crossed the sky like golden ribbons. The
planet Mars appeared on the far left, while the planets
Saturn and
Jupiter were also simultaneously visible -- but on the opposite side of the sky, here seen on the far right. Near the top of the image the bright
star Vega can be found, while the far-distant and faint
Andromeda Galaxy can be seen toward the left, just below Milky Way's
arch. As the current month progresses, several
planets are lining up in the pre-dawn sky:
Jupiter,
Venus, Mars, and
Saturn.
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