Milky Way over Joshua Tree National Park, California
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An ocean of stars above the desert. Milky Way over Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA
Astronomy has always been a fascinating subject. Even though early astronomers lacked the means to view celestial objects beyond the human eye, yet they still made major discoveries such as calculating the size and distance of the moon, affirming the sun as the centre of our solar system, and predicting the movement of stars relative to the seasons. Today we have sophisticated telescopes, from the orbiting James Webb Space Telescope to portable ones you’ll find in use at International Dark Sky Parks, including Joshua Tree State Park, seen in our photo.
A view of Uranus taken from spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986
The Villarrica volcano in Chile on September 2, 2018
Solar eclipse sequence from August 21, 2017
Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635)
The Large Magellanic Cloud, photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope
Earthrise across Mare Smythii on the moon
Pluto's crescent imaged by NASA's New Horizons interplanetary space probe
Climbing Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada as the Aurora Borealis glows
