Milky Way Over The Outer Banks

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Milky Way Over The Outer Banks

Artist

Terry Rowe

Medium

Photograph - Digital Photography

Description

The lights of the Milky Way fill the sky over the Pamlico Sound in Salvo, North Carolina. Reflected in the water is a light trail from the planet Venus.

The Milky Way is visible from Earth as a hazy band of white light, some 30° wide, arching across the night sky. In night sky observing, although all the individual naked-eye stars in the entire sky are part of the Milky Way, the term “Milky Way” is limited to this band of light. The light originates from the accumulation of unresolved stars and other material located in the direction of the galactic plane.

The Milky Way has a relatively low surface brightness. Its visibility can be greatly reduced by background light, such as light pollution or moonlight. The sky needs to be dark in order for the Milky Way to be visible. This makes the Milky Way difficult to see from brightly lit urban or suburban areas, but very prominent when viewed from rural areas when the Moon is below the horizon. "The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness" shows that more than one-third of Earth's population cannot see the Milky Way from their homes due to light pollution.

As viewed from Earth, the visible region of the Milky Way's galactic plane occupies an area of the sky that includes 30 constellations. The Galactic Center lies in the direction of Sagittarius, where the Milky Way is brightest. (source: Wikipedia)

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October 8th, 2018

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