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Credit & Copyright: Angelo Perrone
Explanation:
If you go high enough, you may find yourself on a picturesque perch between the water
clouds of the Earth and the star clouds of the Milky Way.
Such was the case last month for one adventurous alpinist astrophotographer.
Captured
here in the foreground above white clouds are mountain peaks in the
Dolomite range in northern
Italy.
This multi-exposure image was captured from
Lagazuoi,
one of the Dolomites.
Hundreds of millions of years ago,
the Dolomites were not mountains but islands
an ancient sea that rose through
colliding tectonic plates.
The Dolomites divergent
history accounts for its unusually contrasting features,
which include jagged crests and
ancient
marine fossils.
High above even
the Dolomites, and far in the distance, dark
dust lanes streak out from the central plane of our
Milky Way Galaxy.
The stars and dust are dotted with bright
red
clouds of glowing
hydrogen gas -- such as the
Lagoon Nebula just above and to the left of center.
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