Astronomy Picture of the Day

   [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                    written by a professional astronomer.

                               2023 December 1
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                              Milky Way Rising
               Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]José Rodrigues

   Explanation: [5]The core of the Milky Way is rising beyond the Chilean
   mountain-top [6]La Silla Observatory in this [7]deep night skyscape.
   Seen toward the constellation Sagittarius, our home galaxy's center is
   flanked on the left, by the European Southern Observatory's New
   Technology Telescope which pioneered the use of active optics to
   accurately control the shape of large telescope mirrors. To the right
   stands the ESO 3.6-meter Telescope, home of the exoplanet hunting
   [8]HARPS and [9]NIRPS spectrographs. Between them, the [10]galaxy's
   central bulge is filled with obscuring clouds of interstellar dust,
   bright stars, [11]clusters, and nebulae. Prominent reddish hydrogen
   emission from the star-forming Lagoon Nebula, M8, is near center. The
   Trifid Nebula, M20, combines blue light of a dusty reflection nebula
   with reddish emission just left of the cosmic Lagoon. [12]Both are
   popular stops on telescopic tours of the galactic center. [13]The
   composited image is a stack of separate exposures for ground and sky
   made in April 2023, all captured consecutively with the same framing
   and camera equipment.

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