Milky Way & Airglow At Stirling Ranges, Western Australia

Dreamy artists rendition of our blue marble.

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Friends of NASA originally shared:

Lookout Mountain Milky Way

Victor: “…a beautiful evening and star-filled night on Lookout Mountain, Oregon”

Lookout Mountain, elevation 6,536 feet (1,992 m), is the second highest peak in Oregon’s Mount Hood National Forest and the highest point in Badger Creek Wilderness. It sits about 8 miles (13 km) east-southeast of Mount Hood, separated from it by the valley of the East Fork Hood River.

From its summit and with good visibility, one may see (from approximately west and moving clockwise) Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Adams, Broken Top, South Sister, North Sister, Mt. Washington, and Mt. Jefferson with the unassisted eye.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Credit: Victor von Salza

Location: Lookout Mountain, Oregon, United States

Image Date: July 14, 2018

Commission for Dark Skies

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NGC 346, Star Lily 

Hubble gave one of the clearest views of monstrous arms of the galaxy Messier 106. First discovered in 1781, its beauty certainly hasn’t diminished.

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Summer Milky Way at Lake Dornducking, Western Australia

Nikon d5500 - 50mm - ISO 3200 - f/2.8 - Foreground: 10 x 13 seconds - Sky: 40 x 30 seconds - iOptron SkyTracker - Hoya Red Intensifier filter

#Repost @natgeotravel • • • One-minute journey to the heart of the Milky Way. Video by @babaktafreshi & @esoastronomy The World at Night project We begin this on a photograph of a starry night in California with the setting moon shining on sandstone rock formations. My colleagues at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced an exciting discovery a few days ago. Direct observation of Einstein’s general relativity on a star very close to the 4-million solar mass black hole in the Galactic Center. The swarm of stars orbiting rapidly around the supermassive blackhole have been observed for about 3 decades, leading to this discovery. The second part of the video, created by ESO, is a combination of telescopic images, all the way to some of the world’s largest ones called the VLT (Very Large Telescope). Follow me @babaktafreshi to explore more of astronomy & space photography. #milkyway #blackhole #astrophotography #astronomy #nightphotography @natgeocreative @natgeo

M16 [NGC 6611] Eagle Nebula [Kitt Peak Telescope]

Bright Rigel

Plasma downflow single footpoint of quiescent solar prominence

Double exposure of the moon (over exposure + normal exposure) by cosmicgrey

★☆★ SPACE ★☆★