                APOD: 2018 June 22 - Galaxy in a Crystal Ball

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                                 2018 June 22
                                      [2]
                          Galaxy in a Crystal Ball
             Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Juan Carlos Munoz [4]

Explanation: A small crystal ball seems to hold a whole galaxy in this
creative snapshot [5] . Of course, the galaxy is [6] our own Milky Way. Its
luminous central bulge marked by rifts of interstellar dust spans thousands of
light-years. On this long southern hemisphere night it filled dark Chilean
skies over Paranal Observatory [7] . The single exposure image did not require
a Very Large Telescope, though. Experiments with [8] a digital camera on a
tripod and crystal ball perched on a handrail outside the Paranal Residencia
produced the evocative, cosmic marble portrait of our home galaxy.

                      Tomorrow's picture: the martian [9]

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