APOD: 2022 March 1 - Dueling Bands in the Night

Thank you my space-exploration advocate friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the March 1st Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): 'Dueling Bands in the Night.’

Image: Dueling Bands in the Night.


Explanation: "What are these two bands in the sky? The more commonly seen band is the one on the right and is the central band of our Milky Way galaxy. Our Sun orbits in the disk of this spiral galaxy, so that from inside, this disk appears as a band of comparable brightness all the way around the sky. The Milky Way band can also be seen all year -- if out away from city lights. The less commonly seem band, on the left, is zodiacal light -- sunlight reflected from dust orbiting the Sun in our Solar System. Zodiacal light is brightest near the Sun and so is best seen just before sunrise or just after sunset. On some evenings in the north, particularly during the months of March and April, this ribbon of zodiacal light can appear quite prominent after sunset. It was determined only this century that zodiacal dust was mostly expelled by comets that have passed near Jupiter. Only on certain times of the year will the two bands be seen side by side, in parts of the sky, like this. The featured image, including the Andromeda galaxy and a meteor, was captured in late January over a frozen lake in Kanding, Sichuan, China."


FYI Sgt (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. PO1 William "Chip" Nagel CPT (Join to see) SPC Nancy Greene CPL Douglas Chrysler PO3 Edward Riddle SGT Mary G. SGT Tiffanie G. MSgt Gloria Vance SSG Michael Noll SPC Michael Duricko, Ph.D CSM Charles Hayden SPC Douglas Bolton GySgt Jack Wallace SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL

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