Image Credit & Copyright: Matipon
Tangmatitham
Explanation:
Can the night sky appear both serene and surreal? Perhaps classifiable as
serene in the above panoramic image taken last Friday are the faint lights of
small towns glowing across a dark foreground landscape of Doi Inthanon National
Park in Thailand, as well as the numerous stars glowing across a dark
background starscape. Also visible are the planet Venus and a band of zodiacal
light on the image left. Unusual events are also captured, however. First, the
central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, while usually a common site, appears here
to hover surreally above the ground. Next, a fortuitous streak of a meteor was
captured on the image right. Perhaps the most unusual component is the bright
spot just to the left of the meteor. That spot is the plume of a rising Ariane
5 rocket, launched a few minutes before from Kourou, French Guiana. How lucky
was the astrophotographer to capture the rocket launch in his image? Not lucky
at all -- the image was timed to capture the rocket. What was lucky was how photogenic
-- and perhaps surreal -- the rest of the sky turned out to be.
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