Night Shine: photos of the Gulf of Oman

This incredible picture was taken in November last year on the Iranian coast of the Gulf of Oman. In the foreground bioluminescent plankton makes the surf blue glow. In the distance the Earth's atmosphere dims the horizon it obscured by the dark impenetrable cloud. In the sky in the center rise, and around the numerous bright stars. If you look, you can see Venus for a diagonal beam of light is the band of zodiacal light. The so-called sunlight reflected by dust in the Solar system, but the origin of this dust is still unclear — it may be as a result of the destruction of asteroids and comets, and the dust component of the solar corona. Dust particles can also be determined by the comets from the Oort cloud.

Connecting with the zodiacal light in a letter V, the photo is clearly visible the Central region of the milky Way. Most of the billions of stars and dark clouds in our galaxy are thousands of light years from us.

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