Explanation:
In search of planets and the summer
Milky Way,
astronomer Tunç Tezel took an evening
road trip.
Last Saturday, after driving the winding road up
Uludag,
a mountain near Bursa, Turkey, he was rewarded by this beautiful
skyview to the south.
Near the center, bright planet Jupiter outshines
the city lights below and the stars of the constellation
Sagittarius.
Above the mountain peaks, an arcing
cloud bank seems to lead to the Milky Way's own
cloudy apparition plunging into the distant horizon.
In Turkish, Uludag
means Great Mountain.
Uludag was known in
ancient times
as the Mysian Olympus.
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