by bystander » Thu Aug 04, 2011 6:08 pm
Space Pictures This Week: Star Valley, Sun Waves, More
National Geographic | Daily News | 2011 Aug 04
Nepalese Night
Photograph by Anton Jankovoy, My Shot
A river of stars flows over the Mardi Khola Valley in the Himalaya, as seen in a recently submitted long-exposure picture taken in
Nepal. The dense stellar band is the plane of our home galaxy, the
Milky Way.
Best Travel Pictures of 2011 Named
National Geographic | Daily News | 2011 Aug 02
Star Sprawl
Photograph by Ben Canales
Ben Canales sprawls in the snow under the starry sky above
Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. Caneles's long-exposure photograph, made using a timer on his camera, is the winner of the
2011 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.
(Get the inside scoop on the winning image—and a bonus time-lapse video—in the Intelligent Travel blog.)
[url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/pictures/110804-best-space-pictures-155-nepal-stars-moon-earth-asteroid-vesta/?now=2011-08-04-00%3A01][b][i]Space Pictures This Week: Star Valley, Sun Waves, More[/i][/b][/url]
National Geographic | Daily News | 2011 Aug 04
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[size=150][b]Nepalese Night[/b][/size]
[i]Photograph by [url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot/gallery/274994/]Anton Jankovoy[/url], [url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot/]My Shot[/url][/i]
A river of stars flows over the Mardi Khola Valley in the Himalaya, as seen in a recently submitted long-exposure picture taken in [url=http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/nepal-guide/][b]Nepal[/b][/url]. The dense stellar band is the plane of our home galaxy, the [url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/12/milky-way/croswell-text][b]Milky Way[/b][/url].
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[url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/pictures/110802-travel-photo-contest-pictures-winners-traveler-magazine-photography/][b][i]Best Travel Pictures of 2011 Named[/i][/b][/url]
National Geographic | Daily News | 2011 Aug 02
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[size=150][b]Star Sprawl[/b][/size]
[i]Photograph by Ben Canales[/i]
Ben Canales sprawls in the snow under the starry sky above [url=http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/crater-lake-national-park/][b]Crater Lake National Park[/b][/url] in Oregon. Caneles's long-exposure photograph, made using a timer on his camera, is the winner of the [url=http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/traveler-magazine/photo-contest/][b]2011 [i]National Geographic Traveler[/i] Photo Contest[/b][/url].
[i](Get the [url=http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2011/08/02/behind-the-winning-image/][b]inside scoop on the winning image[/b][/url]—and a [url=http://vimeo.com/26968340]bonus time-lapse video[/url]—in the [url=http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/intelligenttravel/]Intelligent Travel[/url] blog.)[/i]