PULL · 20 OCT 2012

This was
your sky.

Zodiacal Light and Milky Way

NASA APOD · Babak Tafreshi
COSMIC MESSAGE

This wide-angle view from northern Maine captures two major astronomical planes. The Milky Way's disk arcs across the sky, while the zodiacal light stretches almost horizontally. Zodiacal light is sunlight scattered by dust in the plane of our solar system, appearing as a faint glow. The bright planet Jupiter marks the intersection of these two celestial features.

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ZODIAC CONTEXT
LIBRA

In tropical astrology, 20 OCT 2012 falls under Libra (♎). The sign's window runs from 09-23 through 10-22. Libra is the only zodiac constellation named for an inanimate object, the scales of judgment. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 20 OCT 2012.

THE ALMANAC FOR 20 OCT 2012
DAY
Saturday
MOON
Waxing crescent, 25% lit
POSITION
Day 294 of 366
METEOR SHOWER
Orionid shower, peaks tomorrow