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Very Large Array Radio Dishes Aligned Under Ionized Comet Tail
very large array · radio telescope · astronomy · night photography
Dramatic night photography captured at the Very Large Array on the Plains of San Agustin, New Mexico. Giant parabolic dish antennas sit silently along railroad tracks, their massive white steel structures angled uniformly upward in tracking mode. Hovering directly above their focal points is a magnificent comet of rare magnitude. The comet exhibits a blazing coma casting soft ground shadows, with an intricate ion tail stretching across forty degrees of the constellation Taurus, showing delicate knotted condensations and plasma kinks caused by an interplanetary magnetic shockwave. Photographed with a 35mm prime lens at f/1.4, tracked foreground-sky composite, sharp mechanical textures on antenna trusses contrasted with sublime astronomical gas dynamics.