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Credit & Copyright: Jeff Medkeff
Explanation:
The bold, bright
star patterns of Orion (right) are a
familiar sight to even casual skygazers.
But this gorgeous color photo also features a subtler
spectacle - the faint stars
of the Milky Way.
A broad region of
the Milky Way
runs vertically through the picture
with the striking
red Rosette Nebula in bloom left of center.
Cutting across this dim, diffuse band of stars which lie along
the plane of our Galaxy is a meteor streak.
It seems to pass just under
the red-orange giant star Betelgeuse at
Orion's shoulder.
Astrophotographer
Jeff Medkeff recorded
this and other beautiful time exposures from
a dark sky countryside southeast of Sierra Vista, Arizona USA,
during
November's Leonid
meteor shower.
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