Michael Blake 🇨🇦

ALT An oval projection of the night sky, wide and flat like a watermelon. The oval is mostly a dark, velvety midnight blue, set on a black background. The velvety texture is the result of countless tiny white pinpricks of light. Most are so small as to be barely perceptible, but a few are larger white dots. Cutting across the image, from the upper left, arcing down to near the bottom at the center, and back up to the upper right in a matching curve, is the bright white glow of the Milky Way. It has a ropy appearance, with brighter and slightly darker areas. In a few spots interspersed across the image, most notably in the upper right, black squares or lines indicate areas of no data. Thousands of orange and hundreds of blue dots are scattered across the image.