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.

                              2024 December 28
    [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest
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                           A December Winter Night
             Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Włodzimierz Bubak

   Explanation: [5]Orion seems to come up sideways, climbing over a
   distant mountain range in this deep skyscape. [6]The wintry scene was
   captured from southern Poland on the northern hemisphere's long
   solstice night. [7]Otherwise unseen nebulae hang in the sky, revealed
   by the camera modified to record red [8]hydrogen-alpha light. The
   nebulae lie near the edge of the Orion molecular cloud and [9]join the
   Hunter's familiar belt stars and bright giants Betelgeuse and Rigel.
   Eye of Taurus the Bull, yellowish [10]Aldebaran anchors the V-shaped
   Hyades star cluster near top center. Still, near opposition in planet
   Earth's sky, the Solar System's [11]ruling gas giant Jupiter is the
   brightest celestial beacon above this horizon's snowy peaks.

                         Tomorrow's picture: frozen
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    Authors & editors: [23]Robert Nemiroff ([24]MTU) & [25]Jerry Bonnell
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   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-alpha
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