Have you ever had stars in your eyes? It
appears that the eye on the left does, and moreover it appears to be gazing at
even more stars. The featured 27-frame
mosaic was taken last July from Ojas de Salar in
the Atacama Desert of Chile. The
eye is actually a small lagoon captured
reflecting the dark night sky as
the Milky Way Galaxy arched overhead. The seemingly smooth band of the Milky Way is
really composed of billions of stars, but decorated with filaments of
light-absorbing dust and red-glowing nebulas.
Additionally, both Jupiter (slightly
left the galactic arch) and Saturn (slightly
to the right) are visible. The lights of small towns dot the unusual vertical
horizon. The rocky terrain around
the lagoon appears to some more like the surface of Mars than
our Earth.
Image & info via APOD
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