Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                              2019 December 24

                       A Northern Winter Sky Panorama
                  Image Credit & Copyright: Tomas Slovinsky

   Explanation: What stars shine in Earth's northern hemisphere during
   winter? The featured image highlights a number of bright stars visible
   earlier this month. The image is a 360-degree horizontal-composite
   panorama of 66 vertical frames taken consecutively with the same camera
   and from the same location at about 2:30 am. Famous stars visible in
   the picture include Castor & Pollux toward the southeast on the left,
   Sirius just over the horizon toward the south, Capella just over the
   arch of the Milky Way Galaxy toward the west, and Polaris toward the
   north on the right. Captured by coincidence is a meteor on the far
   left. In the foreground is the Museum of the Orava Village in Zuberec,
   Slovakia. This village recreates rural life in the region hundreds of
   years ago, while the image captures a timeless sky surely familar to
   village residents, a sky also shared with northern residents around the
   world.

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