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The Southern Milky Way Above ALMA
ESO Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi snapped this remarkable image of the antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), set against the splendour of the Milky Way. The richness of the sky in this picture attests to the unsurpassed conditions for astronomy on the 5000-metre-high Chajnantor plateau in Chile’s Atacama region.
This view shows the constellations of Carina and Vela. The dark, wispy dust clouds of the Milky Way streak from middle top left to middle bottom right. The bright orange star in the upper left is Suhail in Vela, while the similarly orange star in the upper middle is Avior, in Carina.
Of the three bright blue stars that form an “L” near these stars, the left two belong to Vela, and the right one to Carina. And exactly in the centre of the image below these stars gleams the pink glow of the Carina Nebula.
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The Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), at Kew Gardens in London, has finally opened! This species, from western Sumatra in Indonesia, has the largest floral structure in the world (its not a single flower, but many flowers in one structure, called an inflorescence). To find out more… visit KEW GARDENS.
(photo: Johan Steyn)
