¿ Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 May 26 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. The Milky Way over Snow-Capped Himalayas Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Tomas [4]Havel Explanation: What's higher than the Himalayas? Although the [5]Himalayan Mountains are the tallest on planet Earth, they don't measure up to the [6]Milky Way. Visible above the snow-capped mountains in the featured image is the [7]arcing central band of our home galaxy. The bright spot just above the central plane is the [8]planet Jupiter, while the brightest orange spot on the upper right is the [9]star Antares. The astrophotographer [10]braved below-zero temperatures at nearly 4,000-meters altitude to take the photographs that compose this image. The featured picture is a composite of eight exposures taken with same camera and from the same location over three hours, just after sunset, in 2019 April, from [11]near Bimtang Lake in [12]Nepal. Over much of [13]planet Earth, the planets [14]Mercury (faint) and [15]Venus (bright) will be [16]visible this week after sunset. Experts Debate: [17]How will humanity first discover extraterrestrial life? Tomorrow's picture: Earth from Saturn __________________________________________________________________ [18]< | [19]Archive | [20]Submissions | [21]Index | [22]Search | [23]Calendar | [24]RSS | [25]Education | [26]About APOD | [27]Discuss | [28]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [29]Robert Nemiroff ([30]MTU) & [31]Jerry Bonnell ([32]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [33]Specific rights apply. [34]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [35]ASD at [36]NASA / [37]GSFC & [38]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2005/MwMountains_Havel_1200.jpg 3. https://www.tomashavel.com/about 4. https://www.instagram.com/tomashavel/ 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayas 6. http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/galaxy.html 7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151101.html 8. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/overview/ 9. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180702.html 10. https://www.petmd.com/sites/default/files/too-cold-for-cat.jpg 11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duiGMI01Y_8 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal 13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100713.html 14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160717.html 15. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/overview/ 16. https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/debate/debate100th.html 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200525.html 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 22. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 27. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=200526 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200527.html 29. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 30. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 31. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 32. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 33. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 34. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 35. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 36. https://www.nasa.gov/ 37. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 38. http://www.mtu.edu/