                  APOD: 2018 January 27 - Laguna Starry Sky

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                                2018 January 27
                                      [2]
                              Laguna Starry Sky
  Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn [4] (Weather and Sky
                              Photography [5] )

Explanation: Staring toward the heavens [6] , one of the many lagunas in the
Atacama Desert salt flat calmly reflects a starry night sky near San Pedro de
Atacama, Chile, planet Earth. Cosmic rifts of dust, star clouds, and nebulae
of the central Milky Way galaxy are rising in the east, beyond a volcanic
horizon. Caught in the six frame panorama serenely recorded [7] in the early
morning hours of January 15, planets Jupiter and Mars are close. Near the
ecliptic [8] , the bright planets are immersed in the Solar System's visible
band of Zodiacal light extending up and left from the galactic center. Above
the horizon [9]  to the south (right) are the Large and Small clouds of
Magellan, satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.

                  Tomorrow's picture: full moon fading [10]

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