Crux and Coalsack Nebula - Gigalaxy science print 4 billion light-years

4 billion light-years

while the sunlit side of Earth reveals cloud systems over Australia and Oceania and the dark side slips into night

but this is a real

This image is quite representative to me because it depicts my relationship with the night sky and night photography

NASA's Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere - the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun

Crux and Coalsack Nebula - Gigalaxy science print 4 billion light-yearsOn the southern Milky Way there is an area which can be easily spoted even an unexperienced night sky observer. It is a darker, hand size part of the sky in the middle of the Milky Way disk. It is the Coalsack nebula located near very a characteristic Crux constellation. This nebula is an around 30 light years wide star dust cloud. It can be easily spotted even by the naked eye, because it blocks the light from the dense Milky Way in the background.