Night Sky
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The lights of California's Central Valley illuminate the haze and the vapor trails left by passing airplanes.
The aurora borealis streaks across the sky over moonlit peaks in an Icelandic fjord.
We set up camp along the edge of the valley overlooking the fjord just past sunset. Soon the sky opened to a spectacular aurora display lasting most of the night.
We set up camp along the edge of the valley overlooking the fjord just past sunset. Soon the sky opened to a spectacular aurora display lasting most of the night.
We set up camp along the edge of the valley overlooking the fjord just past sunset. Soon the sky opened to a spectacular aurora display lasting most of the night.
The monumental gateway to the ceremonial platform at Choquequirao under the Milky Way.
A faint aurora display glows behind a snowy peak on Iceland's Snaefellsnes Peninsula.
Moonlight illuminates the glacial peaks of Peru's Cordillera Vilcabamba on a clear starry night.
Peru's Yanama Valley features some of the clearest skies in the region. A combination of high altitude and lack of light pollution allows for excellent viewing of the Milky Way. Here several of the Inca constellations, made up of dark spots in the galaxy's center, can clearly be seen.
The Inca constellation of the llama is visible in this shot. The two brightest stars near the horizon (Alpha and Beta Centauri) are its eyes. The long neck and body are made up of dark spaces in the Milky Way.
Clouds clear to reveal the center of the Milky Way overhead.
The Milky Way over the sacred peak of Marcana. Archaeological evidence uncovered in the Yanama Valley suggests this mountain has been the subject of veneration for centuries.
A distant grass fire creates and eery glow on the horizon in Peru's Yanama Valley.
A meteor shower creates streakes across the Milky Way above the glacial peaks of the Cordillera Vilcabamba.
Camping under the stars atop an ancient ceremonial platform in Peru's Yanama Valley.
The sleepy Cuban beachfront town of Las Cuevas looks upon the Caribbean Sea under the stars.
