Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Tue Jul 24 2018 10:18:03 APOD: 2018 July 24 - Clouds of Earth and Sky Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 July 24 [2] Clouds of Earth and Sky Image Credit & Copyright: Angelo Perrone [3] Explanation: If you go high enough, you may find yourself on a picturesque perch between the water clouds of the Earth and the star clouds of the Milky Way. Such was the case last month for one adventurous alpinist astrophotographer. Captured here [4] in the foreground above white clouds are mountain peaks in the Dolomite range [5] in northern Italy [6] . This multi-exposure image was captured from Lagazuoi [7] , one of the Dolomites. Hundreds of millions of years ago, the Dolomites [8] were not mountains but islands an ancient sea that rose through colliding tectonic plates [9] . The Dolomites divergent history accounts [10] for its unusually contrasting features, which include jagged crests and ancient marine fossils [11] . High above even the Dolomites [12] , and far in the distance, dark dust [13] lanes streak out from the central plane of our Milky Way Galaxy [14] . The stars and dust are dotted with bright red [15] clouds of glowing hydrogen [16] gas -- such as the Lagoon Nebula [17] just above and to the left of center. Tomorrow's picture: galactic spindle [18] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [19] | Archive [20] | Submissions [21] | Index [22] | Search [23] | Calendar [24] | RSS [25] | Education [26] | About APOD [27] | Discuss [28] | > [29] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [30] (MTU [31] ) & Jerry Bonnell [32] (UMCP [33] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [34] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [35] A service of: ASD [36] at NASA [37] / GSFC [38] & Michigan Tech. U. [39] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1807/CloudsOfEarthAndSky_Perrone_931.jpg [3] https://www.facebook.com/pages/story/ reader/?page_story_id=1840448589352188 [4] https://www.facebook.com/angeloperronephoto/photos/ a.1789183277812053.1073741829.1787475247982856/1914090458654667/?type=3&theater [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolomites [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagazuoi [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bChI64ujPRw [9] ap070922.html [10] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/ the-genesis-of-the-dolomites-from-the-sea-to-the-sky/ [11] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2016/08/19/ the-fossils-of-the-dolomites-from-myth-to-science/ [12] http://www.italy-tours-in-nature.com/geology-of-the-dolomites.html [13] ap030706.html [14] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/285/the-milky-way-galaxy/ [15] http://www.lcas-astronomy.org/articles/ display.php?filename=why_are_emission_nebulae_colored_red [16] http://periodic.lanl.gov/1.shtml [17] ap161006.html [18] ap180725.html [19] ap180723.html [20] archivepix.html [21] lib/apsubmit2015.html [22] lib/aptree.html [23] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [24] calendar/allyears.html [25] /apod.rss [26] lib/edlinks.html [27] lib/about_apod.html [28] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=180724 [29] ap180725.html [30] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [31] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [32] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [33] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [34] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [35] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [36] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [37] https://www.nasa.gov/ [38] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [39] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .