Magellanic Clouds and Forked Cactus Silhouette Salar de Uyuni Bolivia
by James Brunker
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Magellanic Clouds and Forked Cactus Silhouette Salar de Uyuni Bolivia
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James Brunker
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Photograph - Photograph
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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). A bright shooting star is also visible above the right fork of the cactus, a lucky bonus!!
The Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, covering 10,582 square km / 4,086 square miles. The huge cactus is an Echinopsis atacamensis (pasacana subspecies), which 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......
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December 26th, 2017
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