“Inspired during a visit to Fort Davis, Texas, home of McDonald Observatory and dark night skies, photographer Larry Landolfi created this tantalizing view. The image suggests the Milky Way is a heavenly extension of a deserted country road. Of course, our galaxy, the Milky Way (in Latin, Via Lactea), does refer to its appearance as a milky band or path in the sky. In fact, the word galaxy itself derives from the Greek for milk. Visible on moonless nights fromdark skyareas, though not so colorful as in this image, the glowing celestial band is due to the collective light of myriad stars along the plane of our galaxy, too faint to be distinguished individually. The diffuse starlight is cut by dark swaths of obscuring galactic dust clouds. At the beginning of the 17th century, Galileo turned his telescope on the Milky Way and announced it to be composed of innumerable stars.”
(via apod.gsfc.nasa.gov)
-
sarcasmisdead liked this
-
imortlnoctrn reblogged this from cracks-in-the-ceiling
-
reallybignumber liked this
-
summerkins reblogged this from rayrayyy
-
zillah975 liked this
-
rayrayyy reblogged this from cracks-in-the-ceiling
-
cracks-in-the-ceiling reblogged this from gorgonetta
-
tofslan liked this
-
valkyrien liked this
-
gorgonetta reblogged this from skylerself
-
gorgonetta liked this
-
gookie reblogged this from skylerself
-
this-ishome reblogged this from skylerself
-
forbiddenloveisforever reblogged this from skylerself
-
skylerself reblogged this from cheerful-cynic
-
cheerful-cynic reblogged this from soonear
-
soonear reblogged this from jleeker
-
jleeker posted this