March 22, 2019
There are stars whose light will never reach us, worlds we will never touch, mysteries we may never solve.
A Symphony in Northern Winter Skies
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APOD published March 22, 2019. Credit: Lorenzo Ranieri Tenti. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
Despite the cold, a chance to view the shimmering northern lights coaxed this skygazer onto the frozen surface of Lake Superior on the west coast of the Keweenaw Peninsula and offered this nocturnal crescendo as a reward. A northern late winter night sky also plays across the panoramic composition of images made between 10pm and 1am on the night of February 28/March 1. At left, a faint band of Zodiacal light rises sharply from the horizon crossing Mars and the Pleides star cluster. Both the distant galaxy M31 and our own Milky Way shine above the greenish auroral arc. Navigational north pole star Polaris is centered above and accompanied on the right by the northern night's most recognizable asterism, the Big Dipper. Terrestrial lights include markers for two breakwaters on the the horizon near the center of the scene.
Image credit: Lorenzo Ranieri Tenti