The Milky Way is often barely visible to the naked eye. Because of the light pollution in many big cities, it’s getting more and more difficult.
But this year’s winners of the Milky Way Photographer of the Year awards, created by travel blog Capture the Atlas, have traveled to often remote locations to capture the galaxy’s vibrant details and colors with their cameras. This has resulted in images that go far beyond what we can see in the night sky and show us the beauty of our universe.
The journey leads from Madagascar and Namibia into the vast landscapes of Bulgaria, Australia and New Zealand, passing glaciers, volcanoes, mountains and gorgeous beaches. The luminous band in the sky consists of between 100 and 400 billion stars, as well as dust and gas, and is a constant companion.
The Milky Way is one of the 200 billion galaxies in our universe. It is like a giant whirlpool that rotates once every 200 million years. It is so huge that it takes 100,000 years for light to pass through it at once. Science assumes that in the center, a spiral galaxy, is a supermassive black hole that swallows everything that comes close to it.
We chose the most beautiful pictures of the competition for you, and we invite you to dream and wonder.
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