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Description Night Sky from Hawai‘i and Chile (iotw2225c).jpg |
English:
This is a
composite panorama
of the entire night sky taken from the platforms of
Gemini South
in Chile (left) and
Gemini North
in Hawai‘i (right). These two telescopes comprise the
International Gemini Observatory
, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. The bright white band streaking from left to right is
zodiacal light
, created by sunlight scattering off interplanetary dust dispersed throughout the Solar System. This light appears along the pathway of the Sun and planets across the sky, known as the
ecliptic
, and it's so bright that it can easily be mistaken for
light pollution
on a dark night. The bright patch of light at the center of the image is directly opposite the Sun in the sky. This spot is the
Gegenschein
. On the left side of the image you can
zoom
in to see a rising Jupiter along with Venus (brightest spot on the left), Mars, and Saturn in the middle of the zodiacal light.The dust that produces the zodiacal light and Gegenschein comes from a variety of sources, including comet tails and asteroid collisions. Interestingly, Mars may actually produce a large portion of this dust as it sheds its atmosphere, based on recent studies.This photo was taken as part of the recent
NOIRLab 2022 Photo Expedition
to all the NOIRLab sites.
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Date | 12 July 2022, 11:11 (upload date) |
Source | Night Sky from Hawai‘i and Chile |
Author | NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/ P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava), T. Slovinský |
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