Sunday 22 November 2015

A Magic Moment: The Milky Way from Yellowstone National Park



Made up of dust, gas and roughly 400 billion stars, the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy  stretching between 100,000 to 120,000 light-years in diameter. It is visible as a dazzling band of light in the night sky.
The steam from the spring can be seen center right in the frame. The lines in the foreground created by the silica and the colors created by the microbial mats that grow around the edge of the spring.
This perfect moment has been captured by astrophotographer A. Garrett Evans (Yellowstone National Park) .

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