{"id":631151,"date":"2026-10-15T07:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631151\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T07:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:06:10","slug":"apod-2026-october-15-the-milky-way-over-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631151\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 October 15 &#8211; The Milky Way over Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplanation: The <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2022-november-12-eclipse-in-the-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">city lights<\/a> outshine the stars in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_City_That_Never_Sleeps_(nickname)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">City That Never Sleeps<\/a>. Who would have thought that the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2025-august-2-fireflies-meteors-and-milky-way\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milky Way<\/a> could be visible in this sky? This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DeNUSc7u_KQ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">image<\/a> was taken with a filter that blocks most <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/ems\/09_visiblelight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visible light<\/a>, capturing instead only light in the near-<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/ems\/07_infraredwaves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">infrared<\/a> region of the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/ems\/01_intro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">electromagnetic spectrum<\/a> (with lower energy than visible light). The astrophotographer&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2026\/10\/07\/photographer-captures-the-milky-way-over-manhattan-despite-the-light-pollution\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clever setup<\/a> blocks most of the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/image-article\/apod-2026-june-26-milky-way-urban-style\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">light pollution<\/a> from the city: old <a href=\"https:\/\/scienceinschool.org\/article\/2015\/starlight-inside-light-bulb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">incandescent light bulbs<\/a> and some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ok__l1Acuwg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">neon lights<\/a> are still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/figure\/Spectrum-of-the-near-infrared-band-of-a-neon-lamp-detected-by-a-commercial-spectrometer_fig2_302915423\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bright<\/a> in the near-infrared, but <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/asset\/webb\/spectrum-of-a-fluorescent-light-bulb-vs-spectrum-of-the-sun\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fluorescent<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/figure\/Emission-spectra-of-different-light-sources-a-incandescent-tungsten-light-bulb-b_fig1_312320039\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LED<\/a> light bulbs are not. Of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/universe\/stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stars<\/a> are also bright in the near-infrared! This image is a reminder that we all live <a href=\"https:\/\/iauarchive.eso.org\/news\/announcements\/detail\/ann20019\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">under the same sky<\/a>, and astronomy allows all of us to learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uLu1cTKBspI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">humanity&#8217;s place in the Cosmos<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture: Chasing the ISS\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: The city lights outshine the stars in the City That Never Sleeps. Who would have thought that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[271739,111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-631151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-apod","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}