“Starlit Needle”
Photographer Spencer Welling captured this alien view of a rock formation silhouetted by the Milky Way near Hanksville, Utah. Utah is peppered with such strange rocks, hewn from millions of years of erosion and other geological processes. “On clear, moonless nights, the stars shine bright enough to cast perceptible shadows on the ground, as they did on this night when I was standing below the Needle,” Welling told Capture the Atlas. Just wow.
