Absolutely astonishing photograph (no, it's not photoshopped!) of the milky way galaxy as seen through a crystal ball, with the out of focus night sky behind it. This was taken by Juan Carlos Muñoz himself, and his original post was boosted by many many people.

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1. FediFollows 👻 (fedifollows@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 15-May-2022 13:34:10 UTC FediFollows 👻

   Juan Carlos Muñoz is an astronomer and media officer at the European Southern Observatory, in Chile. You can follow at:

   ➡️ @astro_jcm

   Muñoz's observatory page is at https://www.eso.org/~jmunoz and the observatory itself is at https://www.eso.org

   The ESO is funded by European countries who wish to observe the sky from the southern hemisphere. It's based in the Chilean desert far from light pollution.

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