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. 2019 December 24 [2]See Explanation. Moving the cursor over the image will bring up an annotated version. Clicking on the image will bring up the highest resolution version available. A Northern Winter Sky Panorama Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Tomas Slovinsky Explanation: What stars shine in Earth's northern hemisphere during winter? The featured image highlights a number of [4]bright stars visible earlier this month. The image is a 360-degree horizontal-composite [5]panorama of 66 vertical frames taken consecutively with the same camera and from the same location at about 2:30 am. Famous stars visible in the picture include [6]Castor & Pollux toward the southeast on the left, [7]Sirius just over the horizon toward the south, [8]Capella just over the [9]arch of the [10]Milky Way Galaxy toward the west, and [11]Polaris toward the north on the right. Captured by [12]coincidence is a [13]meteor on the far left. In the foreground is the [14]Museum of the Orava Village in [15]Zuberec, [16]Slovakia. This [17]village recreates rural life in the region hundreds of years ago, while the image captures a timeless sky surely familar to village residents, a [18]sky also shared with northern residents around the [19]world. Free Download: [20]2020 APOD Calendar Tomorrow's picture: sun ring __________________________________________________________________ [21]< | [22]Archive | [23]Submissions | [24]Index | [25]Search | [26]Calendar | [27]RSS | [28]Education | [29]About APOD | [30]Discuss | [31]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [32]Robert Nemiroff ([33]MTU) & [34]Jerry Bonnell ([35]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [36]Specific rights apply. [37]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [38]ASD at [39]NASA / [40]GSFC & [41]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix2015.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1912/WinterStars_Slovinsky_2048.jpg 3. mailto: info .dot. slovinsky @at@ gmail .dot. com 4. https://science.nasa.gov/25-brightest-stars-night-sky 5. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191011.html 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux 7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000611.html 8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capella 9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191022.html 10. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/285/the-milky-way-galaxy/ 11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150602.html 12. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4kkT22kuvoA/TJkQYYii62I/AAAAAAAAC0s/2S9jdoZv2rE/s400/coincidence-photography-reloaded12[1].jpg 13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171117.html 14. https://slovakia.travel/en/evening-at-the-orava-village-museum 15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuberec 16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia 17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no3YhpndFeM 18. https://www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann18040/ 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190825.html 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1912/ApodCalendar2020v5.pdf 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191223.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix2015.html 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 25. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 30. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=191224 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191225.html 32. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 33. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 34. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 35. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 36. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 37. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 38. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 39. https://www.nasa.gov/ 40. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 41. http://www.mtu.edu/