Autumn Night - Sauble Beach - Two Galaxies bw
by Steve Harrington
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Autumn Night - Sauble Beach - Two Galaxies bw
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Steve Harrington
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Photograph - Photography
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Looking north, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies soar above the shore of Lake Huron as the village of Sauble Beach glows on an autumn night. Most people are familiar with the "milky" swath of millions of stars that we see looking across our 100,000 light year-wide Milky Way Galaxy, but few have seen the Andromeda galaxy. It is the frisbee-shaped disc in the upper right of frame and the scale and distance to it are nearly incomprehensible.
Think about what we are seeing: It is a whole other galaxy! The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away and is about 200,000 light-years across. It is believed to contain about 400 billion stars. In terms of the universe, it is a nearby neighbor to our galaxy, yet the light we are looking at began coming to us 2.5 million years ago! Whew!
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September 17th, 2018
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Jan Mulherin
Congratulations!! This stunning Black and White image has been selected to be featured for the week in the "Creative Black and White Fine Art Photographs" Group’s Home Page!! You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2018 October: Stunning Group Featured Images and Thank-you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. If enabled, your image will also be posted to our group Google+ page. Thank you for your group participation! (October 16, 2018)
Tatiana Travelways
Congratulations - Your beautiful picture has been featured in the "Travel Art" group! You are invited to promote it to our group's blog: TravelArtPix.com to be seen Worldwide!
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