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2025 November 9

Road to the Galactic Center
* Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Abramyan
https://www.instagram.com/mikeabramyan

Explanation:
Does the road to our galaxy's center go through Monument Valley? It doesn't have to, but if your road does -- take a picture. In this case, the road is US Route 163 and iconic buttes on the Navajo National Reservation populate the horizon. The band of Milky Way Galaxy stretches down from the sky and appears to be a continuation of the road on Earth. Filaments of dust darken the Milky Way, in contrast to billions of bright stars and several colorful glowing gas clouds including the Lagoon and Trifid nebulas. The featured picture is a composite of images taken with the same camera and from the same location -- Forest Gump Point in Utah, USA. The foreground was taken just after sunset in early 2021 September during the blue hour, while the background is a mosaic of four exposures captured a few hours later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yTBvAhj7Nw&t=293s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation#Reservation_and_expansion
https://www.travelinusa.us/forrest-gump-point/
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/the-milky-way-galaxy/

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