Awesome image gives you two night skies for the price of one

This breathtaking view compound the two hemispheres of the Milky Way galaxy into one . On top , we can see the northerly star from the Canary Islands , while on bottom we can see the southern sky from Chile ’s Atacama desert .

A NASA uranologist explain further :

The photographers ’ option of locating offered locally sullen skies enjoyed by La Palma ’s Roque de los Muchachos Observatory and Paranal Observatory in Chile . But it also take into account the direction to the Milky Way ’s N and south galactic terminal to be placed near the local zenith . That constrained the swoon , diffuse radiance of the plane of the Milky Way to the mountainous horizons . As a result , an even fainter S - shaped band of Light Within , sunlight scattered by dust along the solar system ’s ecliptic plane , can be completely traced through both northern and southern hemisphere nighttime skies .

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