Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                               2021 February 6
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                           A Northern Winter Night
                 Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Lukasz Zak

   Explanation: [5]Snow blankets the ground in this serene forest and sky
   view. Assembled in a 360 degree panoramic projection, the mosaicked
   frames were captured at January's end along a quiet country road near
   Siemiony, northeastern Poland, [6]planet Earth. The night was cold and
   between trees reaching toward the sky shine the stars and nebulae of
   the northern winter [7]Milky Way. Near zenith is bright [8]star
   Capella, a mere 43 light-years above the tree tops. Alpha star of the
   constellation Auriga the Charioteer and part of the [9]winter hexagon
   asterism, Capella is a well-studied double star system. Follow the
   Milky Way above and right of Capella and you might spot the familiar
   [10]stars of Orion in the northern winter night.

                     Tomorrow's picture: straggler stars
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   4. https://www.instagram.com/lukaszzak/
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   6. https://www.nasa.gov/wallops/2021/feature/watch-the-february-20-antares-launch-from-wallops
   7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210122.html
   8. http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/capella.html
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