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image credit & copyright: Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn (Weather and Sky Photography)



the recognizable stars of the Teapot asterism in the constellation Sagittarius posed with the Milky Way over Death Valley, planet Earth on this quiet, dark night

the surreal scene was appropriately captured from Teakettle Junction, marked by the wooden sign adorned with terrestrial teapots and kettles on the rugged road to Racetrack Playa

shining against the luminous starlight of the central Milky Way is bright planet Saturn, just above the star at the celestial teapot's peak

but the brightest celestial beacon, high above the southern horizon, is an orange tinted Mars at upper left in the frame


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in https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/