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Light Beyond the Bulb

Stardust Santa Barbara, California


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Image Credit: Michael Shainblum

Taken from Mount Figueroa outside Santa Barbara, California, this time-lapse photograph reveals the spectacular light from distant stars, the Milky Way galaxy, as well as the setting Sun. The light from these different sources is scattered by the water droplets of the fog that is rolling in from the Pacific Ocean. The density of water molecules in fog causes light to bounce in many directions, making it hard for it to reach an observer and obscuring our view through it.

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