APOD
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Trees, Sky, Galactic Eye
Explanation: Is beauty in the eye of this beholder? Earlier this month, over Runion Island in the Indian Ocean , a playful photographer with an eye for the sky took eight images and composed the above intriguing picture . The full fisheye frame shows everything above the horizon , including a lamp-illuminated landscape around the edges, and the zenith of the sky directly overhead. The image , however, may be more than beautiful -- it may also be a scavenger hunt . Can you find the photographer's tent, the slope of a volcano (active Piton de la Fournaise ), a picturesque shoreline, and the lights of the nearby town ( Saint Philippe )? One remarkable feature of the above image is that its center contains the very center of our Milky Way Galaxy .
| Date | June 29, 2010 |
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| Credit | Credit & Copyright: Luc Perrot |
| Authors & editors: | Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) |
| A service of: |
ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. |



