The Galaxy Above 
Image Credit & Copyright: Rodrigo Guerra

Explanation: Have you contemplated your home galaxy lately? If your sky looked like this, perhaps you'd contemplate it more often! The featured picture is actually a composite of two images taken last month from the same location in south Brazil and with the same camera -- but a few hours apart. The person in the image -- also the astrophotographer -- has much to see in the Milky Way Galaxy above. The central band of our home Galaxy stretches diagonally up from the lower left. This band is dotted with spectacular sightsincluding dark nebular filaments, bright blue stars, and red nebulas. Millions of fainter and redder stars fill in the deep Galactic background. To the lower right of the Milky Way are the colorful gas and dust clouds of Rho Ophiuchi, featuring the bright orange star Antares. On this night, just above and to the right of Antares was the bright planet Jupiter. The sky is so old and so familiar that humanity has formulated many stories about it, some of which inspired this very picture.

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最近有沒有朝向銀河陷入沉思？如果你頭頂?shù)奶炜帐菆D中這樣,，也許你會(huì)經(jīng)常想象它的存在,。這幅圖像實(shí)際上是上個(gè)月在巴西的同一地點(diǎn)使用同一臺(tái)相機(jī)間隔幾小時(shí)拍攝的兩張照片疊加在一起的。圖像中的人頭頂?shù)你y河有很多看點(diǎn),。左下側(cè)拉伸的是銀河系的中央地帶,。明亮的藍(lán)色恒星、暗星云,、紅色星云點(diǎn)綴著這片壯麗的銀河中央?yún)^(qū)域,。在銀河背景中，還可以看到數(shù)百萬黯淡紅色恒星,。右下側(cè)是蛇夫座的多彩氣體和塵埃云,，它點(diǎn)綴著亮橙色的恒星心宿二。木星是位于心宿二的右側(cè),、位于圖像上方最明亮的星,。古老而熟悉的天空，引導(dǎo)人類編織很多與之有關(guān)的故事和傳說,，也許其中有一些靈感便來源于上圖的這片美景,。

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