Sunday, March 18, 2018

Mesmerizing Milky Way "Ring" Photo

Infrared imagery of the Eagle Nebula stardust clouds (the so-called 'Pillars of Creation')

The Astronomy Photo of the Day for March 13th (↗), this image by astrophotographer Maroun Habib of moophz.com took some extensive traveling and photo editing capabilities. Mr. Habib first traveled to Kammouha, Lebanon to capture the Northern Hemisphere perspective of our Milky Way Galaxy — represented in the top half of this image. About half a year later, he flew down to the arid and sparsely-populated Atacama Desert in Chile to capture the bottom-half imagery. Some hours (or minutes?) of photographic appending and manipulating later, and voila! The world is gifted with a revolutionary, "well-rounded" (no pun intended) photo.

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Blog Background

The background has three Hubble Space Telescope images:

— LH 95 is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Dorado constellation.

— Ant Nebula (also called Menzel 3) is an aptly-named planetary nebula located in the constellation Norma.

— Egg Nebula (also called CL 2688) is a protoplanetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus.