Image Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (AstroPics.com, TWAN)
Explanation: In this evocative
night skyscape a starry band of the Milky Way climbs over Yosemite
Valley, Sierra Nevada Range, planet Earth. Jupiter
is the brightest celestial beacon on the wintry scene, though. Standing
nearly opposite the Sun in the constellation Taurus, the wandering planet joins
yellowish Aldebaran and the Hyades star cluster.
Below, Orion always
comes up sideways over a fence of mountains. And from there the twin stars of Gemini rise just across the Milky Way. As this
peaceful winter night began, they followed Auriga the
charioteer, its alpha star Capella near the top of the frame.
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