Milchstraße über dem Salzburger Land

Während unsere letzten Fotoreise ins Berchtesgadener Land standen nicht nur die "Klassiker" auf dem Programm. Nein, wir haben uns auch die Nacht um die Ohren gehauen.
Ein paar Infos dazu findet ihr auf https://www.foto-wandern.com/galerie/milchstrasse-ueber-dem-salzburger-land/

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#landscapephotography #nightphotography #astrophotography #bluehour #milkyway #milchstrasse #langzeitbelichtung #longexposure #berchtesgadenerland #salzburgerland

I took this photo last week in the Rhön.

Early in the year, the Milky Way is still flat above the horizon and is perfect for panoramas. Later in the year, the Milky Way becomes more and more vertical above the horizon.

Planetary party portrait above Paranal!

In this image, taken in early February, the planets of the Solar System appear to parade one after the other above our Paranal Observatory in #Chile. Joining the party are the #Moon, the #MilkyWay, and a special guest: comet C/2024 G3

A question we often get is whether the planets orbit the Sun in the same plane as the disc of the Milky Way. This image shows that's not the case: the plane of the Solar System –the ecliptic– is tilted about 60º relative to the Milky Way.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2510a/

B.Haeussler/ESO

The Pines Campsite, Grampians, VIC, Australia

More about me & prints:
https://linktr.ee/steven.sandner

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Gaia Detected Swarm of #BlackHoles Moving Through #MilkyWay
Cluster of #stars spilling across has secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.
Star cluste called #Palomar5. It's a stellar stream that stretches out across 30,000 light-years, and is located around 80,000 light-years away.
They're very dense and spherical, typically containing roughly 100,000 to 1 million very old stars; some, like NGC 6397, are nearly as old as Universe itself.
https://www.sciencealert.com/gaia-detected-an-entire-swarm-of-black-holes-moving-through-the-milky-way

Guess who forgot to pack their tripod and ultra-wide lens?

So this is two 35mm shots with the camera balanced on a stool, held up on an angle with my phone (on its side) and the phone stand for the higher angle, then stitched in Lightroom.

Not great by any means, but who can resist a bit of milky way when you're in a dark area?

Late night thoughts: The US motto “E pluribus unum” (“Out of many, one”) literally means fostering INCLUSION out of DIVERSITY.

Which is also what a galaxy is: a single shining entity made of a multitude of stars. Erase some, and its light dims. Erase enough, destroy enough gravitational bonds, and I suppose it all breaks up and scatters into the dark.

Anyway, here’s another Milky Way pic. (Shot on iPhone 15)

Summer Milky Way at Lake Ninan, Western Australia

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Things move fast in the Milky Way. About 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling through space at a speed of at least 1.2 million MPH. @ScienceAlert has more:

https://flip.it/nl9eVz

Astronomers have discovered a black hole jet that erupted into existence when the universe was less than 1.2 billion years old, or roughly 9% its current age. The jet spans 200,000 light-years — twice the width of the Milky Way. "We were amazed, but also skeptical, so we made sure to assemble all the evidence before publishing this work," research lead Anniek Gloudemans said. Read more at @LiveScience

https://flip.it/S6YLGM