Looking for exceptionally dark skies in the United States? It seems Idaho is the place to visit. A large patch of land in central Idaho has just been designated the first International Dark Sky Reserve in the country, and it’s one of only 12 such reserves on Earth. The designation was announced this week by […]
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Australian photographer Donald Yip went out into the desert on a clear night, found an abandoned bus, and captured this remarkable “halo” photo using drone light painting. Yip, a travel photographer based in Melbourne, was in the area photographing a lake when he happened to find the broken-down bus. “I stumbled across this bus while […]
A team of five French amateur astrophotographers has captured a gorgeous 204-megapixel, 1,060-hour photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Lowell Observatory reports that the team, which goes by the name “Ciel Austral” (which translates to “Southern Sky”), captured thousands of photos between July 2017 and February 2019 and stitched them together to create this […]