by APOD Robot » Tue Feb 04, 2020 5:05 am
A Sunset Night Sky over the Grand Canyon
Explanation: Seeing mountain peaks glow red from
inside the Grand Canyon was one of the most incredible sunset experiences of this amateur photographer's life. They appeared even more incredible later, when digitally combined with an
exposure of the night sky -- taken by the same camera and from the same location -- an hour later. The two images were taken last August from the 220 Mile Canyon campsite on the
Colorado River,
Arizona,
USA. The peaks glow red because they were lit by an
usually red sunset. Later, high above, the band of the
Milky Way Galaxy angled dramatically down, filled with stars, nebula, and dark clouds of dust. To the Milky Way's left is the planet
Saturn, while to the right is the brighter
Jupiter. Although
Jupiter and
Saturn are now hard to see,
Venus will be
visible and quite bright to the west in clear skies, just after sunset, for the next two months.
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