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**Astronomy Picture of the Day**
05 May 2026
**Orion over Mount Teide**
Image:
Credit: Not provided
Orion is rarely seen like this. To achieve this majestic vista , you need a camera capable of taking such long duration exposures that faint features in the night sky become revealed. Iconic nebulas that appear include the Orion Nebula , the Flame Nebula , and Barnard's Loop . For contrast, it also helps to have a volcano on the foreground, in this case the Teide volcano on Tenerife on the Canary Islands of Spain . But if you want your Teide volcano snow-covered , you also need good timing -- because that only happens, typically, for a few days each year. Good timing also includes waiting for Orion to appear just behind Teide , which occurred late last year after sunset. The featured image is the result of a series of images taken consecutively with the same camera from the same location.
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"content": "**Astronomy Picture of the Day**\n\n05 May 2026\n\n**Orion over Mount Teide**\n\nImage: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2605/OrionTeide_Rosadzinski_4247.jpg\n\nCredit: Not provided\n\nOrion is rarely seen like this. To achieve this majestic vista , you need a camera capable of taking such long duration exposures that faint features in the night sky become revealed. Iconic nebulas that appear include the Orion Nebula , the Flame Nebula , and Barnard's Loop . For contrast, it also helps to have a volcano on the foreground, in this case the Teide volcano on Tenerife on the Canary Islands of Spain . But if you want your Teide volcano snow-covered , you also need good timing -- because that only happens, typically, for a few days each year. Good timing also includes waiting for Orion to appear just behind Teide , which occurred late last year after sunset. The featured image is the result of a series of images taken consecutively with the same camera from the same location.\n\n#APOD #Orion #MountTeide #CanaryIslands #Tenerife #Astronomy\n\nhttps://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260505.html\n",
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