Stunning Picture of the Milky Way Over Ontario by NASA

A beautiful picture of the Milky Way galaxy is posted at the NASA website today. The photo was taken over Ontario, Canada earlier this month.

If one lives in the city we seldom see such a fine sky view, thanks to NASA and astronomers, who are able to bring them to us. This is one of them take over Ontario, Canada.

It is not just one image, it is a series of images taken with time-consecutive exposures superimposed into one. That is why you won’t see the same view of the sky in the reflection of the lake. NASA explains about the image:

The reason for this is because the above image is actually a digital composite of time-consecutive exposures from the same camera. In the first set of exposures, sky images were co-added with slight rotations to keep the stars in one

You can see the planet Jupiter, a bright spot appearing on the upper left of the image and the Milky Way galaxy appears next to it in the form of disk.

The lights in the horizon shows a nearby city from the lake.