Monday, November 22, 2010

Frosted Leaf and Night sky

This work of art captures both the beauty of the galaxy as well as the beauty of nature we have here on Earth. The frost on the star looks very much like the stars in the night sky. This picture was taken over Japan. In this picture, a meteor can be seen flying behind the trees on the far lower left. Next to the streak of the meteor is also the streak left behind from an airplane. Once again, capturing the similarities between Earth and the rest of our galaxy. The star with the highest magnitude, Sirius, can be seen shining brightly on the left side of the image. The constellation of Orion can be seen easily, as well as his belt of three stars in a perfectly spaced row. This belt is located benaeath the red gas giant. This gas giant is named Betelguese. To the right of the image is the star cluster of the Seven sisters, or, Pleides open star cluster.

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