From the Northern to the Southern Cross (astronomy photo by Nicholas Buer)

Image: Nicholas Buer, via APOD.

A particularly psychedelic Astronomy Picture of the Day:

There is a road that connects the
Northern to the
Southern Cross
but you have to be at the right place and time to see it.

The road, as pictured above, is actually the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy; the right place, in this case, is dark
Laguna Cejar in
Salar de Atacama of Northern
Chile;
and the right time was in early October, just after sunset.

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