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Milky Way Over Switzerland
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22.02.2011 00:00
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Milky Way Over Switzerland
Explanation: What's visible in the night sky during this time of year? To help illustrate the answer, a beautiful land, cloud, and skyscape was captured earlier this month over
Neuchâtel
,
Switzerland
. Visible in the foreground were the snow covered cliffs of the amphitheater shaped
Creux du Van
, as well as distant trees, and town-lit clouds. Visible in the night sky (at midnight) were galaxies including the
long arch
of the central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy
, the
Andromeda galaxy
(M31), and the
Triangulum
galaxy (
M33
). Star clusters visible included NGC 752,
M34
,
M35
,
M41
, the
double cluster
, and the Beehive (
M44
). Nebulas visible included the Orion Nebula (
M42
),
NGC 7822
,
IC 1396
, the
Rosette Nebula
, the
Flaming Star Nebula
, the
California Nebula
, the
Heart
and
Soul Nebulas
, and the
Pacman Nebula
. Rolling your cursor over the
above image
will bring up
labels
for
all of these
. But the above
wide angle sky image
captured even more sky wonders. What other nebulas
can you find
in the above image?
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