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Each month TWAN brings you a photo with a mystery. Share your thoughts with us and our global viewers. While some of the photos display a real mystery of unidentified object or phenomena, some others are already solved by TWAN team and appear here for educational purposes. TWAN post the explanation or the final conclusion at the month’s end. This program is a collaboration with Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (UAP) international project.

 

  

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               Mystery 5 (January 2011): Toward the South

 

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Test your knowledge of the night sky with this edition of TWAN Mystery. In a clear night of late November 2009 TWAN photographer Babak Tafreshi made this single exposure image with a 50-mm lens from high altitude slopes of Himalayas in the Sagarmatha National Park of Nepal, on the trek to Mount Everest base camp. The location was at latitude 28 degrees north and the image looks to the southern horizon in the early morning sky. Try to find out 1- what is the bright star at the right side? 2- What is the notable deep sky object right at the horizon? 3- What has caused the large patchy red glow in the upper part of the image? See more TWAN images of Nepal Himalayas on this gallery.

 

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fernando escobar

1- The Moon 2- Cluster 3- Milky Way


Kristof verbrugghe

I agree with M. Raşid Tuğral 1. Conapus 2. NGC 2256 3. Hydrogen rich part of Milky Way Kind regards


GhaZale Adampour

what is the next Mystery ? I like them :-D


Mohammad Saber Ali Aghaei

Hi ! 3- it is Gum nebula!


Rokhsare

Hi - i think 1- sohail star--2-NGC 25163- idont know but my frinde said : its GUM nebula???


Stephen

1. Venus 2.Pleaides 3.Barnards Loop


GhaZale AdamPour

1.Canopus(Soheil)- in Carina Constellation 2.It's an Open Cluster , NGC2516 , Its very shiny, but It's not in Messier Catalouge. Because Messieh Lived in North hemisphere , and this is a South hemisphere Celestial Body. 3.It should be GUM nebula , But just the south part of it :-D :-D


Vasilis Metallinos

Hello, I had never see Canopus at the sky, but it's the bright star at the right side of this image. Same for the NGC2516, never see it at the nightsky near to Avior. The big gas around Suhail al Muhlif is an Emission Nebula but don't know what cause it, maybe Vela Pulsar(but it's 5° away) OR Carina Nebula-NGC3372(but it's 24° far) OR caused from some star in NGC2547 .... (?)


M. Raşid Tuğral

1. Conapus 2. NGC 2256 3. Hydrogen rich part of Milky Way


Mark Dankof

I am too embarrassed to take the test. You guys would publicly humiliate me. . . . Mark


Steve

The bright star is Canopus. The deep sky object is that cluster in Carina whose name escapes me...I assume the glow is from the Milky Way as it move3s through Puppis & Carina.


Mohammad Saber Ali Aghaei

Hi! 1- Canopus (α-Carina) 2- NGC 2516 3- I don't know now!

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