﻿ Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 January 29 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. Milky Way over Yellowstone Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Lori Jacobs Explanation: The Milky Way was not created by an evaporating lake. [4]The pool of vivid blue water, about 10 meters across, is known as [5]Silex Spring and is located in [6]Yellowstone National Park in [7]Wyoming, [8]USA. Steam rises off [9]the spring, heated by a [10]magma chamber deep underneath known as the [11]Yellowstone hotspot. The steam blurs the image of [12]Venus, making it seem unusually large. Unrelated and far in the distance, the [13]central band of our [14]Milky Way Galaxy rises high overhead, a band lit by billions of stars. The featured picture is a 3-image panorama taken last August. If the [15]Yellowstone hotspot causes another [16]supervolcanic eruption as it did [17]640,000 years ago, a [18]large part of North America would be affected. Tomorrow's picture: open space __________________________________________________________________ [19]< | [20]Archive | [21]Submissions | [22]Index | [23]Search | [24]Calendar | [25]RSS | [26]Education | [27]About APOD | [28]Discuss | [29]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [30]Robert Nemiroff ([31]MTU) & [32]Jerry Bonnell ([33]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [34]Specific rights apply. [35]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [36]ASD at [37]NASA / [38]GSFC & [39]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2001/StoneyWay_Jacobs_4754.jpg 3. mailto: loribea at me dot com 4. https://goo.gl/maps/ZcydY 5. http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/tours/fountainpaint/silexspring.htm 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RDYVVmVR2U 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming 8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jQNg_q-KzY 10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Hotspot#mediaviewer/File:Yellowstone_Caldera.svg 11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_hotspot 12. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/in-depth/ 13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110710.html 14. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/science/milky_way_galaxy.html 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0c7wcpJslg 16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano 17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_Creek_Tuff 18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_Creek_Tuff#mediaviewer/File:LavaCreekTuff.jpg 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200128.html 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 23. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 28. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=200129 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200130.html 30. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 31. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 32. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 33. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 34. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 35. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 36. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 37. https://www.nasa.gov/ 38. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 39. http://www.mtu.edu/