The Milky Way shines over a hut nestled in the Southern Alps on New Zealand’s South Island, one of the darkest places on the planet.
Researchers at the University of Maryland are trying to get to the bottom of our farts.
“There it is. There is the thing that everybody’s been looking for for 50 years.”
The annual competition highlights photographers' pursuit of a perfectly dark sky.
The pristine star formed outside the Milky Way and later drifted into our galaxy.
Without the mass stellar migration, life may not have been able to form on Earth.
There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?
Photo: Rachel Roberts 
