Astrophoto: The Milky Cow

By Nancy Atkinson - January 24, 2012 11:17 PM UTC | Milky Way

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The Milky Way + cows = The Milky Cow! A great composite of two photographs, both taken the same day by César Cantú of the

Chilidog Observatory

in Monterrey, Mexico. César says the images were reduced to couple the brightness in the one image with the dark skies showing the Milky Way in the other. Both were taken with a Canon 20Da camera. To see a larger version of this image, see

César's website

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Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

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