Quarks to Quasars

Stardust

Photograph by Kwon O. Chul, TWAN

Far above Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro, the band of the Milky Way cuts through a sky dusted with stars. This recently released photo, a single frame from a time lapse video, was taken near the town of Moshi on Kilimanjaro’s lower southern slopes.

The smaller, almost opalescent blur on the left of the frame is the Small Magellanic Cloud—a dwarf galaxy far, far away that’s home to hundreds of millions of stars.

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   Stardust

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    beautiful!

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    This makes me feel insignificant - which is oddly beautiful.

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