June 29, 2010
The atoms in your body have known many forms: star core, drifting dust, ocean mineral, living cell.
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APOD published June 29, 2010. Credit: Luc Perrot. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
Is beauty in the eye of this beholder? Earlier this month, over R�union Island in the Indian Ocean, a playful photographer with an eye for the sky took eight images and composed the above intriguing picture. The full fisheye frame shows everything above the horizon, including a lamp-illuminated landscape around the edges, and the zenith of the sky directly overhead. The image, however, may be more than beautiful -- it may also be a scavenger hunt. Can you find the photographer's tent, the slope of a volcano (active Piton de la Fournaise), a picturesque shoreline, and the lights of the nearby town (Saint Philippe)? One remarkable feature of the above image is that its center contains the very center of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Image credit: Luc Perrot