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“Winter Sky Over the Mountains”

A person before the grand arc of the galaxy.
A person before the grand arc of the galaxy. Photo: Tomáš Slovinskỷ

A view of the galaxy from the Low Tatras mountains in Slovakia. This is a self-portrait: the photographer stands silhouetted at center. The Milky Way is speckled with pinkish reds because a special filter was used on the camera to emphasize hydrogen-alpha nebulae in the galaxy, which are normally invisible to the naked eye. If any image in this slideshow were a movie poster, this would be the one.