Copyright:Babak Tafreshi
原文:
The Henbury craters in the Northern Territory, Australia, planet Earth, are the scars of an impact over 4,000 years old. When an ancient meteorite fragmented into dozens of pieces, the largest made the 180 meter diameter crater whose weathered walls and floor are lit in the foreground of this southern hemisphere nightscape. The vertical panoramic view follows our magnificent Milky Way galaxy stretching above horizon, its rich central starfields cut by obscuring dust clouds. A glance along the galactic plane also reveals Alpha and Beta Centauri and the stars of the Southern Cross. Captured in the region’s spectacular, dark skies, the Small Magellanic Cloud, satellite of the Milky Way, is the bright galaxy to the left. Not the lights of a nearby town, the visible glow on the horizon below it is the Large Magellanic Cloud rising.
中文翻譯:
亨布里隕石坑，位於澳洲北領地，是一個超過 4,000 年的撞擊痕跡。當一顆古老的隕石碎裂成數十塊時，最大的一塊形成了直徑 180 米的隕石坑，其風化的牆壁和地面在這個南半球的夜空中被照亮。這幅縱向全景圖呈現了我們壯麗的銀河系在地平線上延展，豐富的中央星域被遮擋的塵雲切割。沿著銀河平面，我們還可以看到阿爾法和貝塔仙著星及南十字星。這幅作品捕捉了這個地區壯觀的黑暗天空，小麥哲倫雲作為銀河系的衛星，明亮的星系位於左側。而在它下面的地平線上，閃爍的光芒不是附近城鎮的燈光，而是正升起的大麥哲倫雲。
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來源:NASA每日圖片
