September 26, 1995
On your birthday, photons that left distant stars before humans walked the Earth finally completed their journey. You began yours.
Star Trails in Southern Skies
Birthday · September 26, 1995
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APOD published September 26, 1995. Credit: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board. A publication-date match, not a photo taken on your date. Independent of NASA.
As the Earth spins on its axis, the sky seems to rotate around us. This motion produces the beautiful concentric arcs traced out by the stars in this time exposure of the night sky. In the foreground of the picture is the dome of the Anglo-Australian Telescope in central New South Wales Australia. In the middle of the picture is the South Celestial Pole, easily identified as the point in the sky at the center of all the star trail arcs.
Image credit: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board