Copyright:Wally Pacholka
原文:
You don’t have to be at Monument Valley to see the Milky Way arch across the sky like this — but it helps. Only at Monument Valley USA would you see a picturesque foreground that includes these iconic rock peaks called buttes. Buttes are composed of hard rock left behind after water has eroded away the surrounding soft rock. In the featured image taken in 2012, the closest butte on the left and the butte to its right are known as the Mittens, while Merrick Butte can be seen just further to the right. High overhead stretches a band of diffuse light that is the central disk of our spiral Milky Way Galaxy. The band of the Milky Way can be spotted by almost anyone on almost any clear night when far enough from a city and surrounding bright lights. APOD in Spanish: On the web and Facebook
中文翻譯:
你無需身處於紀念谷就能看到銀河系橫跨夜空的壯觀景象——但這樣的背景確實很有幫助。在美國紀念谷，這些標誌性的岩石峰叫做尖丘（buttes），形成了如畫的前景。尖丘由堅硬的岩石組成，而周圍的柔軟岩石則因水的侵蝕而被沖刷掉。在這張2012年拍攝的特色圖片中，左邊的尖丘和右邊的尖丘被稱為米頓（Mittens），而在更右邊可以看到梅里克尖丘（Merrick Butte）。高高在上延展著一條模糊的光帶，那是我們螺旋狀銀河系的中央光帶。當遠離城市和周圍明亮的燈光時，幾乎任何人都能在幾乎任何晴朗的夜晚靈活地看到銀河帶。
#紀念谷 #銀河系 #米頓 #梅里克尖丘 #夜空 #大自然美景 #攝影 #戶外探險 #天文學 #星空觀測
來源:NASA每日圖片
