Copyright:
Alexandros Maragos;
Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
原文:
What’s that glowing in the distance? Although it may look like a lighthouse, the rays of light near the horizon actually emanate from the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Greece. Some temple lights are even reflected in the Aegean Sea in the foreground. Although meant to be a monument to the sea, in this image, the temple’s lights seem to be pointing out locations on the sky. For example, the wide ray toward the right fortuitously points toward the Lagoon Nebula in the central band of our Milky Way, which runs diagonally down the image from the upper left. Also, the nearly vertical beam seems to point toward the star clouds near the direction of the Wild Duck open cluster of stars. The featured image was taken less than three weeks ago.
中文翻譯:
你看到遠處的那道光嗎？雖然它看起來像一座燈塔，但其實位於希臘南部的索尼翁角（Cape Sounion）的波塞頓神廟（Temple of Poseidon）所發出的光線，正映照在地平線之上。畫面前景的愛琴海（Aegean Sea）裡也反射出神廟的燈光。這座旨在紀念海洋的神廟的光線，似乎在指向天空中的某些位置。例如，右側的光束恰好指向位於我們銀河系中心帶中的氣 lagoon星雲（Lagoon Nebula），而幾乎垂直的光束則指向接近野鴨開放星團（Wild Duck open cluster）附近的星雲。這張圖片是在不到三周前拍攝的。
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來源:NASA每日圖片
