Stunning image of airglow bands around the Milky Way

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Wow, really?

Looks cool.

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These gravity waves

I doubt it.

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Gravity wave. Different from gravitational wave.

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Huh. It wasn’t without some trepidation that I contradicted NASA…

Never come across that term before; seems a bit like ‘light reflection’.

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It is definitely needlessly confusing.

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The part about the “OH molecules” sounded really real, didn’t it? But we know tha sky was on drugs.

Wow! That must have been shot at a time or in a part of China where air and light pollution weren’t a big problem. (Though atmospheric particulates DO account for some spectacular sunsets.)

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