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[bystander]

Space Pictures This Week: Star Valley, Sun Waves, More
National Geographic | Daily News | 2011 Aug 04

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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

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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.)

[Voyager3]

"Nepalese night" look like old-school cover art for 1970's sci-fi novels, like Heinlein's or Asimov's!
I can't belive it's not airbrushed!
Outstandind!