APOD 1.2

Wow look at the night sky! Is that an alien in the bottom left corner? Actually, that's a person standing to the entrance of the cave, and if you look closely thats not the nighttime sky either. This is a picture of Hollow Hill cave located in New Zealand. The lights are made by Arachnocampa luminosa otherwise known as the New Zealand glowworm. This worm emits a glowing light to fool insects into flying into a webbed trap above. The light patterns emitted by the glowworms resembles the night sky and constellations,such as in the top left which looks similar to the southern cross, The landscape of the cave has a similar appearance to mars. This is a very neat and eerie photo and shows that there can be locations here on Earth that appear as other celestial objects in the universe. 





" The starry sky under Hollow Hill"               http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140830.html