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Milky Way and zodiacal light over Atacama Desert
Milky Way and zodiacal light over Atacama Desert. Milky Way in the night sky at twilight after sunset, looking out over the Valle de la Muerte ('Death Valley'), in the Cordillera de la Sal mountains in the Atacama Desert in Chile. At right is the faint white cone of zodiacal light. The Milky Way is our galaxy seen from the inside, forming a band of stars and nebulae stretching across the sky. Zodiacal light is sunlight reflected from dust particles orbiting in the plane of the solar system. Photographed in October 2015. Photo by MIGUEL CLARO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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