Milky Way Over Atacama Desert

A wide-angle night view of the Milky Way galaxy stretching across the sky above the salt-covered, jagged terrain of the Valle de la Luna in the Atacama Desert, with a prominent cone of zodiacal light rising from the horizon.

Astrophotography of the Milky Way and a cone of zodiacal light over the jagged salt terrain of Valle de la Luna in the Atacama See more

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