银河系、行星与苹果树

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.

Tomorrow’s picture: pixels in space

银河系、行星与苹果树
图像提供与版权：Kristine Richer

说明：在这幅宁静的北天影像里，老天文学家珍爱的银河斜贯而过。而在弥漫暗淡的星光衬托下，从银心伸出由星际尘埃云构成的裂谷亦历历可辨。这些裂谷看似伸向影像右侧，悬在南方地平线上空的亮星心宿二。不过，在这片曙光时分的天空中，最明亮的天体是木星。从这部相机看出去，它看似挂在前景苹果树的枝桠上。这幅静谧的海岸夜空影像，是由今年6月16日摄于地球·新斯科细亚省·多佛地区的多张导星与无导星照片组合而成。

明日的图片：pixels in space