While poking around the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth (tens of thousands of photos of Earth from space, dating back to the Mercury program) I found this photo of the Milky Way rising (setting?) above the Earth’s limb:
Taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 18, 2010.
I love this planet, this galaxy, this starry spacetime SO much, thank you for sharing this gorgeous photo♥
Thanks for this ! many more young will be inspired.
Amazing photo.Just imagine how big a circle the earth’s curvature can be,and those colours fringing the atmosphere with a greenish border,with a lot of muddy yellow within seems to be the dominent hue of the atmosphere,blending into the earthy land with some lakes and beyond its horizon stands the great milky way in all its glory.All this is very inspiring and thought provoking.
K V S Krishna
Thank you for sharing this dreamlike vision. I hope you keep on poking through the astronauts’ photos and come accross other gems.
sweet! <3
Beautiful! I wish every person could have the opportunity to see our fragile planet and it’s starry neighbors from this perspective.
Mandala cósmica. vFc
Dulce:
Don’t worry, I have dozens.
What a wonderful world
AWESOME!
Repeating:
I quite agree with those who wrote “what a wonderful world !”
The greenish glow is the nighttime airglow that envelopes the earth at an altitude of about 90 km. The glow seen here is a mixture of two bright layers of gas, one composed of hydroxyl (OH) and the other atomic oxygen (O). As they each recombine the gases give off this faint nightglow. On rare occasions the nightglow can be seen from the ground at a dark, moonless site.