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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       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.   
      
                                    2022 July 8   
      
                            Roots on a Rotating Planet   
                  Image Credit & Copyright: Marcella Giulia Pace   
      
      Explanation: With roots on a rotating planet, an old tree is centered   
      in this sequence of 137 exposures each 20 seconds long, recorded one   
      night from northern Sicily. Digital camera and fisheye lens were fixed   
      to a tripod to capture the dramatic timelapse, so the stars trailed   
      through the region's dark sky. Of course that makes it easy to spot the   
      planet's north celestial pole. The extension of Earth's axis of   
      rotation into space is toward the upper left, at the center of the   
      concentric star trail arcs. The Milky Way is there too. The plane of   
      our galaxy stretches across the wide field of view from north to east   
      (left to right) creating a broader luminous band of diffuse starlight.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend   
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