Dueling Glows

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  • 时间：2013年7月06日 15:44

Dueling Glows

Dueling Glows

Photograph by Jeff Dai, National Geographic Your Shot 

Two ghostly glows—one from the Milky Way and one from zodiacal light—brighten the skies over Minya Konka, the highest mountain in the Sichuan Province of China.

The pyramid-shaped glow above the horizon (center), called zodiacal light, is caused by the reflection of sunlight off a countless number of dust particles between the planets in the solar system.





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