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Title: Milky Way Galaxy, Eerie Airglow Paint Night Sky Amazing Colors (Photo)
Post by: Buster's Uncle on November 20, 2013, 12:21:39 am

Milky Way Galaxy, Eerie Airglow Paint Night Sky Amazing Colors (Photo)
SPACE.com
By Nina Sen 11 hours ago


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The Milky Way and green airglow are captured over the Isle of Wight in this image taken by Chad Powell



The horizon glows a haunting green, silhouetting trees on the Isle of Wight as the band of the Milky Way shines overhead in this spectacular photo recently sent in to SPACE.com by a veteran photographer.

Night sky photographer Chad Powell captured this beautiful image, which he aptly calls "Too Many Stars To Count," on Oct. 4 using a Canon 6D camera (25 seconds, f/2.8, 20mm, and ISO 4000).

"The sky was so bright this particular evening from both the Milky Way and green airglow," Powell told SPACE.com in an email. "Due to this, a very strong silhouette lined the foreground and trees in the distance."

Our host galaxy, the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy comprising roughly 400 billion stars. It spans between 100,000 to 120,000 light-years in diameter. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year, or about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).


http://news.yahoo.com/milky-way-galaxy-eerie-airglow-paint-night-sky-131845677.html (http://news.yahoo.com/milky-way-galaxy-eerie-airglow-paint-night-sky-131845677.html)