domingo, 28 de junio de 2015

A Rocket, a Meteor and the Milky Way, All in One Overwhelming Image

Pictures of rockets, meteors and the Milky Way are all amazing. But one with all three makes for an cutting angel indeed.

This amazing account shows the night sky over Doi Inthanon National Park in Thailand. Within it, you can see the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, aerial surreally. But there's more: just appropriate of center, there's a admirable meteor streak, and just to the larboard of that a ablaze atom which is in fact the ascent Ariane 5 rocket, launched a few account afore from Kourou,French Guiana.

Lucky coincidence? Nope: the angel was timed to accomplishment to abduction the rocket in flight. But the aftereffect was able-bodied account the wait. [NASA]

Image by Matipon Tangmatitham

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