January 27, 2017
The same gravity that holds galaxies together and keeps planets in their orbits also held you to the Earth on the day you were born.
Venus Through Water Drops
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APOD published January 27, 2017. Credit: John Bell. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
Now the brilliant "star" in planet Earth's evening skies, Venus is captured in this creative astrophotograph. Taken with a close-focusing lens on January 18 from Milton Keynes, UK, it shows multiple images of the sky above the western horizon shortly after sunset. The images were created by water drops on a glass pane fixed to a tree. Surface tension has drawn the water drops into simple lens-like shapes. Refracting light, the drops create images that are upside-down, so the scene has been rotated to allow comfortable right-side up viewing of a macro-multiple-skyscape. Participate: Take an Aesthetics & Astronomy Survey
Image credit: John Bell