Explanation: A mysterious formation known as Devils Tower rises into the dark above northeastern Wyoming's prairie landscape in this 16 frame panoramic view. Seen against the night sky's thin, pale clouds and eerie green airglow, star clusters and nebulae of the Milky Way arc toward the galaxy's central realm at right of the frame. Of course the scene contains the Milky Way's own haunting and grisly visages of halloween, including ghosts, a flaming skull, a glowing eye and a witch's broom. To find them, slide your cursor over the picture or just follow this link, if you dare. And have a safe and Happy Halloween!
A remarkable picture. Not flagged in the description is the Andromeda Galaxy (lower left), an large aurora (same place) - and unless i'm mistaken - toward the lower rigght - some nocto luminescent clouds
The caldron of the Milky Way holds more scary places than we can imagine though quite a few are offered in the brew today. It might be exciting to leave the safety of our on home but, once there, the isolation would surely be worse than any film producer has yet put to screen. Being alone far from home might be a Trekkie's dream but I'm kind of glad to be here with the rest of you.
Happy Halloween for today; we can "explore strange new worlds" tomorrow – Thanks to our "fiends" on and at APOD!!
The Devil's Tower has had many names in Native American languages. Most of them having to do with a place of Bears...."Home of the Bears" and the like....
My last name means.....Bear Hamlet....or Place of the Bears...Interesting.
BDanielMayfield wrote:What movie does this bring to mind space fans?
It reminds me of my uncomfortable relationship with mashed potato. I was terrified by the movie as a small child. After the mashed potato scene, I hid behind the seats in the cinema for the rest of the film and missed seeing the aliens. Yet around the same time, I was happily projecting my dark side all over town, in my "Darth Vader Lives" t-shirt. Psychoanalyse that.
BDanielMayfield wrote:What movie does this bring to mind space fans?
It reminds me of my uncomfortable relationship with mashed potato. I was terrified by the movie as a small child. After the mashed potato scene, I hid behind the seats in the cinema for the rest of the film and missed seeing the aliens. Yet around the same time, I was happily projecting my dark side all over town, in my "Darth Vader Lives" t-shirt. Psychoanalyse that.
Well technically it is kinda true as he does still live as a ghost.
BDanielMayfield wrote:What movie does this bring to mind space fans?
It reminds me of my uncomfortable relationship with mashed potato. I was terrified by the movie as a small child. After the mashed potato scene, I hid behind the seats in the cinema for the rest of the film and missed seeing the aliens. Yet around the same time, I was happily projecting my dark side all over town, in my "Darth Vader Lives" t-shirt. Psychoanalyse that.
Well technically it is kinda true as he does still live as a ghost.
The pedantic is weak in you, young starsurfer! Technically, it was never true. But I was talking about the late 1970s, when our world only knew of one Star Wars film, the plot of which saw the Empire lose ground and Darth Vader survive in corporeal form.
Milky Way over Devils Tower
. Thankfully I was not as 
as I thought I would be. It's nice to see Pluto indicated 
.