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APOD from 2018-02-27
Dueling Bands in the Night
Two sky bands captured in Denmark: the right is our Milky Way galaxy, visible all year away from city lights. The left band is zodiacal light, sunlight reflecting off solar system dust, best seen at twilight and prominent in March-April due to comet-expelled dust near Jupiter.
HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180227.html
Dueling Bands in the Night
Two sky bands captured in Denmark: the right is our Milky Way galaxy, visible all year away from city lights. The left band is zodiacal light, sunlight reflecting off solar system dust, best seen at twilight and prominent in March-April due to comet-expelled dust near Jupiter.
HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180227.html