May 10, 2023
Light takes eight minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth. It took the universe 13.8 billion years to make you.
Milky Way over Egyptian Desert
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APOD published May 10, 2023. Credit: Amr Abdulwahab. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
For ten years the stargazer dreamed of taking a picture like this. The dreamer knew that the White Desert National Park in Egypt's Western Desert is a picturesque place hosting numerous chalk formations sculpted into surreal structures by a sandy wind. The dreamer knew that the sky above could be impressively dark on a clear moonless night, showing highlights such as the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy in impressive color and detail. So the dreamer invited an even more experienced astrophotographer to spend three weeks together in the desert and plan the composite images that needed to be taken and processed to create the dream image. Over three days in mid-March, the base images were taken, all with the same camera and from the same location. The impressive result is featured here, with the dreamer -- proudly wearing a traditional Bedouin galabyia -- pictured in the foreground.
Image credit: Amr Abdulwahab