Hello! Astronomy Picture of the Day - September 7th, 2020
Today's video is about The Milky Way over St Michael's Mount
Where do land and sky converge?
On every horizon -- but in this case the path on the ground leads to St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos yn Koos), a small historic island in Cornwall, England
The Mount is usually surrounded by shallow water, but at low tide is spanned by a human-constructed causeway
The path on the sky, actually the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, also appears to lead to St Michael's Mount, but really lies far in the distance
The red nebula in the Milky Way, just above the castle, is the Lagoon Nebula, while bright Jupiter shines to the left, and a luminous meteor flashes to the right
The foreground and background images of this featured composite were taken on the same July night and from the same location
Although meteors are fleeting and the Milky Way disk shifts in the night as the Earth turns, Jupiter will remain prominent in the sunset sky into December
Moon Occults Mars: Notable images submitted to APOD
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