The best and most surprising images of the Milky Way
The photography and travel blog ‘Capture the Atlas’ has published its annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year collection with the 25 best snapshots of our galaxy from different parts of the world
'One in a Billion'. ISS (International Space Station).Don Pettit'Tolol Lunar Eclipse Sky'. Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile.Petr Horálek (CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava))'Boot Arch Perseids'. Alabama Hills, California.Mike Abramyan'Bottle Tree Paradise'. Socotra, Yemen.Benjamin Barakat'Double Milky Way Arch Over Matterhorn'. Zermatt, SwitzerlandAngel Fux'Valley of the Cactus'. San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.Pablo Ruiz'Cosmic Fire'. Acatenango Volcano, Guatemala.Sergio Montúfar'A Sea of Lupines'. Lake Tekapo, New ZealandMax Inwood'Diamond Beach Emerald Sky'. Great Ocean Road, Australia.Brent Martin'Blossom'. Hehuan Dark Sky Park, Taiwan.Ethan Su'The Night Guardians'. Easter Island, Chile.Rositsa Dimitrova'Fortress of Light'. Jujuy, Argentina.Mauricio Salazar'Glimpse of colors'. Southern Crete, GreeceTomas Slovinsky'Evolution of Stars'. Otago, New Zealand.Kavan Chay'The Wave'. Coyote Buttes, Utah.Luis Cajete'Winter Fairy Tale'. Dobratsch Natural Park, Austria.Uroš Fink'Galaxy of the Stone Array'. Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand.Alvin Wu'Echiwile Arch'. Ennedi, Chad.Vikas Chander'Salt Universe'. Jujuy, ArgentinaAlejandra Heis'Lake RT5'. Zanskar, Himalayas.Tanay Das'A Stellar View From The Cave'. Saint Raphaël, France.Anthony Lopez'Spines and Starlight'. Kanaan, Namibia. Burak Esenbey'A spark in the darkness'. Matarraña county, Spain.Luis Merino'Stairway to Heaven'. Madeira, Portugal Marcin Rosadziński'Starlit Ocean: A Comet, the setting Venus, the Milky Way, and McWay Falls'. California.Xingyang Cai