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Jul 20, 2018
The Teapot and the Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn (Weather and Sky Photography)
Courtesy of http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
The Teapot and the Milky Way
Image Credit & Copyright: Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn (Weather and Sky Photography)
Courtesy of http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
The recognizable stars
of the Teapot asterism in the constellation
Sagittarius posed with the Milky Way over Death Valley, planet Earth
on this quiet, dark night.
The surreal scene was appropriately captured from
Teakettle Junction,
marked by the wooden sign adorned with
terrestrial teapots and kettles on the rugged road to
Racetrack Playa.
Shining against the luminous starlight of the central Milky Way
is bright planet
Saturn,
just above the star at the
celestial teapot's peak.
But the brightest celestial beacon, high above the southern horizon, is
an orange tinted
Mars at upper left
in the frame.
