This is the APOD of October 20, 2007. It was taken in Fort Davis, Texas, on an almost moonless night. This is obviously a picture of the Milky Way, but taken so as to seem like it's just an extension of the dirt road. The picture is composited and one of the links actually leads to a photo gallery of composited pictures that deal with astronomical events (it's actually pretty cool. One of the pictures looks like a guy is about to walk into a nebula or exploding star or something). The APOD goes on to talk abotu the origins of the name Milky Way and the name galaxy (which apparently derives from the Greek word for milk. Cool beans.) One link shows alternate names for the M.W. like Silver Road, Bird's Path, and so on. The appearance of the Milky Way itself is due to innumerable stars and dark galactic clouds. Yay Galileo.
Friday, October 26, 2007
APOD 2.1
This is the APOD of October 20, 2007. It was taken in Fort Davis, Texas, on an almost moonless night. This is obviously a picture of the Milky Way, but taken so as to seem like it's just an extension of the dirt road. The picture is composited and one of the links actually leads to a photo gallery of composited pictures that deal with astronomical events (it's actually pretty cool. One of the pictures looks like a guy is about to walk into a nebula or exploding star or something). The APOD goes on to talk abotu the origins of the name Milky Way and the name galaxy (which apparently derives from the Greek word for milk. Cool beans.) One link shows alternate names for the M.W. like Silver Road, Bird's Path, and so on. The appearance of the Milky Way itself is due to innumerable stars and dark galactic clouds. Yay Galileo.
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