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Milky Way Over Syme Hut and Mount Taranaki
"Reaching Mount Taranaki, New Zealand involving over five hours of hiking through deep snow and ice in extreme conditions, with windchill dropping to around -15C and a heavy 20kg pack, progress was slow and physically taxing."
Photograph: Brendan Larsen
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Botswana Baobabs by Night
"I spent 10 days travelling through Botswana, living out of my car and moving through remote desert landscapes in complete isolation, focused entirely on photographing the night sky. This location became the highlight of the trip: a small, ancient island rising from the middle of a vast salt pan."
Photograph: Stefano Pellegrini
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Valle de la Luna, Universo Triassico Ischigualasto
This photograph was captured in Argentina, in a Unesco world heritage site. Cancha de bochas has geological importance as the only place on Earth where the complete sequence of the Triassic period can be observed, preserving key fossils from the earliest dinosaurs.
Photograph: Gonzalo Javier Santile
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Valle de la Luna, Universo Triassico Ischigualasto
This photograph was captured in Argentina, in a Unesco world heritage site. Cancha de bochas has geological importance as the only place on Earth where the complete sequence of the Triassic period can be observed, preserving key fossils from the earliest dinosaurs.
Photograph: Gonzalo Javier Santile
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Valle de la Luna, Universo Triassico Ischigualasto
This photograph was captured in Argentina, in a Unesco world heritage site. Cancha de bochas has geological importance as the only place on Earth where the complete sequence of the Triassic period can be observed, preserving key fossils from the earliest dinosaurs.
Photograph: Gonzalo Javier Santile
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Valle de la Luna, Universo Triassico Ischigualasto
This photograph was captured in Argentina, in a Unesco world heritage site. Cancha de bochas has geological importance as the only place on Earth where the complete sequence of the Triassic period can be observed, preserving key fossils from the earliest dinosaurs.
Photograph: Gonzalo Javier Santile
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Valle de la Luna, Universo Triassico Ischigualasto
This photograph was captured in Argentina, in a Unesco world heritage site. Cancha de bochas has geological importance as the only place on Earth where the complete sequence of the Triassic period can be observed, preserving key fossils from the earliest dinosaurs.
Photograph: Gonzalo Javier Santile
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Salto del Agrio
This image was captured at Salto del Agrio, in the province of Neuquén, Argentina.The 45-metre waterfall plunges into a canyon carved by ancient lava flows from the Copahue volcano. Surrounded by basalt, the scene is enriched by the vivid colours left behind by minerals, particularly iron and sulfur carried by the Agrio River.
Photograph: Alejandra Heis
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Salto del Agrio
This image was captured at Salto del Agrio, in the province of Neuquén, Argentina.The 45-metre waterfall plunges into a canyon carved by ancient lava flows from the Copahue volcano. Surrounded by basalt, the scene is enriched by the vivid colours left behind by minerals, particularly iron and sulfur carried by the Agrio River.
Photograph: Alejandra Heis
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Salto del Agrio
This image was captured at Salto del Agrio, in the province of Neuquén, Argentina.The 45-metre waterfall plunges into a canyon carved by ancient lava flows from the Copahue volcano. Surrounded by basalt, the scene is enriched by the vivid colours left behind by minerals, particularly iron and sulfur carried by the Agrio River.
Photograph: Alejandra Heis
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Salto del Agrio
This image was captured at Salto del Agrio, in the province of Neuquén, Argentina.The 45-metre waterfall plunges into a canyon carved by ancient lava flows from the Copahue volcano. Surrounded by basalt, the scene is enriched by the vivid colours left behind by minerals, particularly iron and sulfur carried by the Agrio River.
Photograph: Alejandra Heis
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Salto del Agrio
This image was captured at Salto del Agrio, in the province of Neuquén, Argentina.The 45-metre waterfall plunges into a canyon carved by ancient lava flows from the Copahue volcano. Surrounded by basalt, the scene is enriched by the vivid colours left behind by minerals, particularly iron and sulfur carried by the Agrio River.
Photograph: Alejandra Heis
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Double Milky Way Over Monfragüe national park
This image was taken Monfragüe national park, Spain during one of the few nights of the year when both the winter and summer Milky Way can be seen in the same sky. The scene does not appear this way to the naked eye. It is a composite that captures the transition of the Milky Way over several hours, combining the winter Milky Way visible after dusk with the summer Milky Way rising before dawn.
Luis Cajete
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Milky Way Over Tatra Mountains
This image is taken in the Białka Gorge in Jurgów, Poland. In the foreground, the river creates a natural leading line, guiding the eye from the Earth towards the mountains and into the night sky, visually connecting the terrestrial and the cosmic.#astrophotography
#MilkyWay
#Poland
#AltText
#mountains
#rivers
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Divinity
Capturing a setting Milky Way core from this beach on the west coast of New Zealand had been on my list for a long time, with the starfish-covered reef offering a distinctive and compelling foreground. The terrain is hazardous, with gaps between the rocks posing a real risk, and the rapidly rising tide added constant pressure throughout the shoot.
Photograph: Kavan Chay -
Galaxy on the Rise
Although it was only a few minutes from the parking area, it took me nearly four hours of scouting to finally locate this cave in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Capturing the image proved just as challenging. Composing and shooting the panoramic foreground required careful positioning, while properly illuminating the upper section of the cave was particularly difficult.
Photograph: Anastasia Gulova
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Lost in the Ripples of Space and Time
There is something uniquely powerful about a calm, windless night in the Pinnacles desert, and Western Australia offers some of the finest night skies in the world. In this composition, the main limestone pillar aligns almost perfectly with the south celestial pole, anchoring the image beneath the rotating sky.
Photograph: Leonel Padrón
#astrophotography
#MilkyWay
#AltText
#Australia
#WA
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Night at the Remarkables
The galactic centre of the Milky Way, composed of billions of stars, gas and dust, rises above an icy, ancient landscape deep within Aoraki/Mount Cook national park in New Zealand, part of the largest Gold Tier Dark Sky Reserve in the world. This was one of the most remarkable scenes I have experienced in over seven years of astrophotography.
Photograph: Tom Rae
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Measuring the Blur: Because the telescope "knows" exactly what that laser star should look like (a perfect point of light), it can measure how the atmosphere is currently distorting it.
The Shape-Shifting Mirror: This data is sent to a deformable mirror inside the telescope. This mirror has hundreds of tiny actuators behind it that adjust its shape thousands of times per second to perfectly cancel out the atmospheric turbulence.
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How the "tuning" works:The VLT uses a technology called Adaptive Optics to fix this in real-time:
Creating the Reference: The lasers are fired 90 kilometers up into a layer of the atmosphere rich in sodium atoms. The laser light excites these atoms, making them glow and creating an "artificial star" exactly where the telescope is looking.
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You can think of those lasers as the "tuning fork" for the telescope's optical system.
Even in a place as clear as the Atacama, our atmosphere isn't perfectly still. Pockets of warm and cool air act like moving lenses, bending light and causing that "twinkling" effect we see in stars. While it's pretty for us, it’s a nightmare for astronomers because it blurs the fine details of distant galaxies.
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Sodium Milky Way
This scene was captured at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Cerro Paranal, in Chile’s Atacama desert, under exceptionally pure observing conditions where the boundary between Earth and sky feels almost seamless. Situated at 2,635 metres above sea level, the site benefits from extremely dry conditions, stable atmospheric layers and minimal light pollution, resulting in more than 300 clear nights each year.
Julien Looten
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Aoraki Mount Cook
The Milky Way arch above Aoraki/Mount Cook in New Zealand. Reaching this location required drawing on my experience as a mountaineer, navigating steep rocky terrain and snow-covered slopes under winter conditions. The route presented constant challenges, including large washouts along the mountainside, unstable snow affected by solar radiation, and the demands of winter camping at altitude.
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The Milky Way Over a Field of Lupines
The Milky Way rising above a blooming field of lupines in New Zealand during November, when spring wildflowers transform the landscape beneath the night sky. Using a fisheye perspective, the flowers encircle the scene, forming a natural frame that draws the viewer into the celestial sphere above.
Photograph: Alvin Wu
#astrophotography
#MilkyWay
#NewZealand
#AltText
#flowers
#lupins
#BloomScrolling
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#SilentSunday
Milky way in Bromo mountain
East Java Indonesia
Southest Asia
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt
#nature #naturephotography #streetphotography
#art
#mountain
#night #photography #bsky
#indonesia #wildlife #milkyway #sky #stars #traveling #natureinspired -
#SilentSunday
Milky way in Bromo mountain
East Java Indonesia
Southest Asia
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt
#nature #naturephotography #streetphotography
#art
#mountain
#night #photography #bsky
#indonesia #wildlife #milkyway #sky #stars #traveling #natureinspired -
#SilentSunday
Milky way in Bromo mountain
East Java Indonesia
Southest Asia
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt
#nature #naturephotography #streetphotography
#art
#mountain
#night #photography #bsky
#indonesia #wildlife #milkyway #sky #stars #traveling #natureinspired -
#SilentSunday
Milky way in Bromo mountain
East Java Indonesia
Southest Asia
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt
#nature #naturephotography #streetphotography
#art
#mountain
#night #photography #bsky
#indonesia #wildlife #milkyway #sky #stars #traveling #natureinspired -
#SilentSunday
Milky way in Bromo mountain
East Java Indonesia
Southest Asia
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt
#nature #naturephotography #streetphotography
#art
#mountain
#night #photography #bsky
#indonesia #wildlife #milkyway #sky #stars #traveling #natureinspired -
Milky way in Bromo mountain East Java Indonesia Southest Asia #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt #nature #naturephotography #streetphotography #art #mountain #night #photography #bsky #indonesia #wildlife #milkyway #sky #stars #traveling #natureinspired
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Milky way in Bromo mountain East Java Indonesia Southest Asia #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt #nature #naturephotography #streetphotography #art #mountain #night #photography #bsky #indonesia #wildlife #milkyway #sky #stars #traveling #natureinspired
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Milky way in Bromo mountain East Java Indonesia Southest Asia #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt #nature #naturephotography #streetphotography #art #mountain #night #photography #bsky #indonesia #wildlife #milkyway #sky #stars #traveling #natureinspired
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Milky way in Bromo mountain East Java Indonesia Southest Asia #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt #nature #naturephotography #streetphotography #art #mountain #night #photography #bsky #indonesia #wildlife #milkyway #sky #stars #traveling #natureinspired
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Milky way in Bromo mountain East Java Indonesia Southest Asia #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforArt #nature #naturephotography #streetphotography #art #mountain #night #photography #bsky #indonesia #wildlife #milkyway #sky #stars #traveling #natureinspired
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Werbeblock (5) – Sat.1, Karfreitag, 01.04.1994
#altewerbung #werbung #werbeblock #sat1 #werbespot #ads #commercial #90er #90s #bumper #ident #mb #jenga #danceswithwolves #johnbarry #jilsander #milkyway #levis #ariola #exquisa #loreal #pombär #citibank #nescafe #katjes #camembert #cunda #rexona #steffigraf #vereinsbank #bank #haribo #goldbären #thomasgottschalk #dash #dermitdemwolftanzt #kevincostner #tv #retro #nostalgie #flashback #throwback
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Werbeblock (5) – Sat.1, Karfreitag, 01.04.1994
#altewerbung #werbung #werbeblock #sat1 #werbespot #ads #commercial #90er #90s #bumper #ident #mb #jenga #danceswithwolves #johnbarry #jilsander #milkyway #levis #ariola #exquisa #loreal #pombär #citibank #nescafe #katjes #camembert #cunda #rexona #steffigraf #vereinsbank #bank #haribo #goldbären #thomasgottschalk #dash #dermitdemwolftanzt #kevincostner #tv #retro #nostalgie #flashback #throwback
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Werbeblock (5) – Sat.1, Karfreitag, 01.04.1994
#altewerbung #werbung #werbeblock #sat1 #werbespot #ads #commercial #90er #90s #bumper #ident #mb #jenga #danceswithwolves #johnbarry #jilsander #milkyway #levis #ariola #exquisa #loreal #pombär #citibank #nescafe #katjes #camembert #cunda #rexona #steffigraf #vereinsbank #bank #haribo #goldbären #thomasgottschalk #dash #dermitdemwolftanzt #kevincostner #tv #retro #nostalgie #flashback #throwback
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Werbeblock (5) – Sat.1, Karfreitag, 01.04.1994
#altewerbung #werbung #werbeblock #sat1 #werbespot #ads #commercial #90er #90s #bumper #ident #mb #jenga #danceswithwolves #johnbarry #jilsander #milkyway #levis #ariola #exquisa #loreal #pombär #citibank #nescafe #katjes #camembert #cunda #rexona #steffigraf #vereinsbank #bank #haribo #goldbären #thomasgottschalk #dash #dermitdemwolftanzt #kevincostner #tv #retro #nostalgie #flashback #throwback
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Werbeblock (5) – Sat.1, Karfreitag, 01.04.1994
#altewerbung #werbung #werbeblock #sat1 #werbespot #ads #commercial #90er #90s #bumper #ident #mb #jenga #danceswithwolves #johnbarry #jilsander #milkyway #levis #ariola #exquisa #loreal #pombär #citibank #nescafe #katjes #camembert #cunda #rexona #steffigraf #vereinsbank #bank #haribo #goldbären #thomasgottschalk #dash #dermitdemwolftanzt #kevincostner #tv #retro #nostalgie #flashback #throwback
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What #JWST found in the extreme outer #MilkyWay : Medium
How Being Too #Easy To #Work With Can Hurt Your #Career : Forbes
#Neuroscience Explains Why #Resting Sometimes Makes You Feel More #Tired : Misc
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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Photographer Spends Night on Freezing Mountain to Capture Rare Triple Galaxy Arch https://petapixel.com/2026/05/08/photographer-spends-night-on-freezing-mountain-to-capture-rare-triple-galaxy-arch/ #astrophotography #milkywaygalaxy #gegenschein #matterhorn #Spotlight #panoramic #Features #angelfux #milkyway #equinox #Space #alps
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I recently shot the Milky Way from a plane window. I've put together a short reel on Instagram, in case you're interested, to see how some of the moving parts fit together, and how it took 96 shots to get one keeper at 37,000 ft in the air.
If you are interested, I'd be grateful if you could watch until the end and give me a like, because Instagram's algorithm laps up things like that.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX9FK91NzpG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
#MilkyWay #Astrophotography #AirTravel #WindowSeat #Photography #TravelPhotography
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#PhotoOfTheDay: The southern #MilkyWay above #ALMA
ESO Photo Ambassador Babak Tafreshi snapped this remarkable image of the antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), set against the splendour of the Milky Way.
The richness of the sky in this picture attests to the unsurpassed conditions for astronomy on the 5000-metre-high Chajnantor plateau in Chile’s Atacama region.
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The M12 globular cluster.
Celestron NexStar Evolution 6 + ZWOASI533MC Pro.
1220mm, f8, 120 exposures of 60’’.
#telescope #telescopes #celestron #celestrontelescope #celestronnexstar #nexstarevolution #nexstarevolution6 #zwo #zwoasi #zwoasi533mc #astro #astrophoto #astrophotos #astrophotography #astrophotographer #spacephotography #astronomy #spaceexploration #nasa #universe #space #deepsky #deepspace #milkyway #cluster #globular #globularcluster #m12 #messier12 #messier -
The M12 globular cluster.
Celestron NexStar Evolution 6 + ZWOASI533MC Pro.
1220mm, f8, 120 exposures of 60’’.
#telescope #telescopes #celestron #celestrontelescope #celestronnexstar #nexstarevolution #nexstarevolution6 #zwo #zwoasi #zwoasi533mc #astro #astrophoto #astrophotos #astrophotography #astrophotographer #spacephotography #astronomy #spaceexploration #nasa #universe #space #deepsky #deepspace #milkyway #cluster #globular #globularcluster #m12 #messier12 #messier -
The M12 globular cluster.
Celestron NexStar Evolution 6 + ZWOASI533MC Pro.
1220mm, f8, 120 exposures of 60’’.
#telescope #telescopes #celestron #celestrontelescope #celestronnexstar #nexstarevolution #nexstarevolution6 #zwo #zwoasi #zwoasi533mc #astro #astrophoto #astrophotos #astrophotography #astrophotographer #spacephotography #astronomy #spaceexploration #nasa #universe #space #deepsky #deepspace #milkyway #cluster #globular #globularcluster #m12 #messier12 #messier -
The M12 globular cluster.
Celestron NexStar Evolution 6 + ZWOASI533MC Pro.
1220mm, f8, 120 exposures of 60’’.
#telescope #telescopes #celestron #celestrontelescope #celestronnexstar #nexstarevolution #nexstarevolution6 #zwo #zwoasi #zwoasi533mc #astro #astrophoto #astrophotos #astrophotography #astrophotographer #spacephotography #astronomy #spaceexploration #nasa #universe #space #deepsky #deepspace #milkyway #cluster #globular #globularcluster #m12 #messier12 #messier -
The M12 globular cluster.
Celestron NexStar Evolution 6 + ZWOASI533MC Pro.
1220mm, f8, 120 exposures of 60’’.
#telescope #telescopes #celestron #celestrontelescope #celestronnexstar #nexstarevolution #nexstarevolution6 #zwo #zwoasi #zwoasi533mc #astro #astrophoto #astrophotos #astrophotography #astrophotographer #spacephotography #astronomy #spaceexploration #nasa #universe #space #deepsky #deepspace #milkyway #cluster #globular #globularcluster #m12 #messier12 #messier -
8 Astrophotography Lessons the Beginner Guides Leave Out https://petapixel.com/2026/04/17/8-astrophotography-lessons-the-beginner-guides-leave-out/ #astrophotography #omsystemom3 #Sponsored #milkyway #om3astro #omsysem #Travel #astro #night #stars #Tips #om3
