NASA chose an image taken by a Slovak for a photo of Christmas Eve on its website. It was taken by photographer Tomáš Slovinský from Zuberec in the Orava region, the Sme daily informed on its website.
The image is a 360-degree horizontal-composite panorama of 66 vertical frames taken consecutively with the same camera and from the same location at about 2:30 am.
The brightest stars create the so-called Winter Hexagon.
The featured image highlights a number of bright stars visible earlier this month. (source: Tomáš Slovinský, apod.nasa.gov)
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