Credit & Copyright: NASA,
Scott
Kelly
Explanation:
Since
November 2000, people have been living
continuously on the International Space Station.
To celebrate humanity's 15th anniversary
off planet Earth,
consider this
snapshot
from space of our galaxy and
our home world posing together beyond the orbital outpost.
The Milky Way stretches below the curve of Earth's limb in the scene
that also records a faint red, extended airglow.
The galaxy's central bulge appears with starfields
cut by dark rifts of obscuring interstellar dust.
The picture was taken by Astronaut Scott Kelly on August 9, 2015,
the 135th day of his
one-year mission in space.
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& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Milky Way - ISS
Publications with words: Milky Way - ISS
See also:
- APOD: 2023 December 12 Á Aurora and Milky Way over Norway
- Milky Way Rising
- APOD: 2023 November 19 Á Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
- APOD: 2023 July 18 Á Milky Way above La Palma Observatory
- APOD: 2023 July 16 Á Meteor and Milky Way over the Alps
- APOD: 2023 July 2 Á Milky Way and Aurora over Antarctica
- APOD: 2023 June 20 Á The Nandu in the Milky Way