Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                 2020 July 2

                 The Galaxy, the Planet, and the Apple Tree
                  Image Credit & Copyright: Kristine Richer

   Explanation: The Old Astronomer's Milky Way arcs through this peaceful
   northern sky. Against faint, diffuse starlight you can follow dark
   rifts of interstellar dust clouds stretching from the galaxy's core.
   They lead toward bright star Antares at the right, almost due south
   above the horizon. The brightest beacon in the twilight is Jupiter,
   though. From the camera's perspective it seems to hang from the limb of
   a tree framing the foreground, an apple tree of course. The serene
   maritime nightscape was recorded in tracked and untracked exposures on
   June 16 from Dover, Nova Scotia, planet Earth.

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