Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2025 July 1 [2]A fisheye image of the sky is shown on the left with the landscape-foreground surrounding it. The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy runs down the center. At first glance the sky looks like oddly like an eye of a dragon. Please see the explanation for more detailed information. Eye Sky a Dragon Image Credit & Copyright: [3]Anton Komlev Explanation: What do you see when you look into this sky? In the center, in the dark, do you see a [4]night sky filled with stars? Do you see a [5]sunset to the left? Clouds all around? Do you see the central band of our [6]Milky Way Galaxy running down the middle? Do you see the [7]ruins of an [8]abandoned outpost on a hill? (The outpost is on [9]Askold Island, [10]Russia.) Do you see a photographer with a headlamp contemplating [11]surreal surroundings? (The [12]featured image is a panorama of 38 images taken last month and compiled into a [13]Little Planet projection.) Do you see a rugged path lined with [14]steps? Or do you see the [15]eye of a dragon? Tomorrow's picture: in spired __________________________________________________________________ [16]< | [17]Archive | [18]Submissions | [19]Index | [20]Search | [21]Calendar | [22]RSS | [23]Education | [24]About APOD | [25]Discuss | [26]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [27]Robert Nemiroff ([28]MTU) & [29]Jerry Bonnell ([30]UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn [31]Specific rights apply. [32]NASA Web Privacy, [33]Accessibility, [34]Notices; A service of: [35]ASD at [36]NASA / [37]GSFC, [38]NASA Science Activation & [39]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2507/EyeDragonSky_Komlev_2000.jpg 3. https://www.instagram.com/komlev.av/ 4. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190516.html 5. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170120.html 6. https://science.nasa.gov/resource/the-milky-way-galaxy/ 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZS7b-u41Ks 8. https://www.rbth.com/arts/travel/2013/09/27/islands_of_riches_off_vladivostok_29725 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRMXR8y9Nc 10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia 11. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170110.html 12. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1r5mYWIi9k/ 13. https://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/little-planet-photos-5-simple-steps-to-making-panorama-worlds 14. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Escher's_Relativity.jpg 15. http://getwallpapers.com/collection/dragon-eye-wallpaper 16. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250630.html 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 20. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 22. https://apod.com/feed.rss 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 24. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 25. https://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=250701 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250702.html 27. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 28. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 29. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 30. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 32. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 33. https://www.nasa.gov/general/accessibility/ 34. https://www.nasa.gov/privacy/ 35. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 36. https://www.nasa.gov/ 37. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 38. https://science.nasa.gov/learners 39. http://www.mtu.edu/