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The Galaxy Tree
May 25, 2015C�sar Vega Toledano ;
Rollover Annotation: Judy Schmidt
About This Image
First came the trees. In the town of Salamanca, Spain, the photographer noticed how distinctive a grove of oak trees looked after being pruned. Next came the galaxy. The photographer stayed up until 2 am, waiting until the Milky Way Galaxy rose above the level of a majestic looking oak. From this carefully chosen perspective, dust lanes in the galaxy appear to be natural continuations to branches of the tree. Last came the light. A flashlight was used on the far side of the tree to project a silhouette. By coincidence, other trees also appeared as similar silhouettes across the relatively bright horizon. The featured image was captured as a single 30-second frame earlier this month and processed to digitally enhance the Milky Way.
On This Day in Space History
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.
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