Magellanic Clouds and Forked Cactus Incahuasi Island Bolivia
by James Brunker
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Magellanic Clouds and Forked Cactus Incahuasi Island Bolivia
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James Brunker
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The Magellanic Clouds above a giant forked cactus on Incahuasi Island in the middle of the Salar de Uyuni in south west Bolivia. The Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. The lower one is the Large Magellanic Cloud or LMC, above it is the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The colours in the sky are airglow or nightglow, caused by various processes in the upper atmosphere (including cosmic radiation, ionization of atoms by the sun's radiation and others).
The Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, covering 10,582 square km / 4,086 square miles. The huge cactus, which has been lit by a small LED panel, is an Echinopsis atacamensis (pasacana subspecies). They grow in Bolivia and northern Argentina and are common in the region. In the cold dry climate they only grow at approx 1cm a year, the tallest are well over 10m high......
Photograph © James Brunker. Reproduction, transmission or use in any form (print, website, etc) without prior written permission strictly prohibited.
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December 26th, 2017
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