NASA shares stunning photo of Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Chile
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mirror.co.ukAt first glance at this image, you’d be forgiven for mistaking it as a stunning work of art. But the image is very much real, and was snapped by photographer Roman Ponča in Chile last year.
NASA has now featured the beautiful photo as its Astronomy Picture of the Day. The space agency explained: “What is the band of light connecting the ground to the Milky Way?
Zodiacal light - a stream of dust that orbits the Sun in the inner Solar System. “It is most easily seen just before sunrise, where it has been called a false dawn, or just after sunset. “The origin of zodiacal dust remains a topic of research, but is hypothesized to result from asteroid collisions and comet tails.” In the image, the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy can be seen
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