25 Jaw Dropping Photos of the Milky Way Taken From Around the World

Our Galax urceolata stretches across 100,000 unaccented - days and contains somewhere between 100 to 400 billion stars . It appear in our night sky as a farsighted , hazy flight strip of light source litter with celestial object . lensman worldwide have been becharm by the sight of the Milky Way from Earth , capturing its unbelievable detail in stunning high - direct contrast images .

Capture the Atlas , a travel photography blog , releasedthe 7th edition of its Milky Way Photographer of the Year , a ingathering of the expert 25 photographs of the galaxy that were captured over the past year . The 2024 assemblage features photographs select from 15 dissimilar nation , including Australia , Spain , Bulgaria , Egypt , and Chile , and by photographers of 19 different nationalities .

The photos fuse color and light to inspire admiration about the Milky Way — the galaxy that house our star system near the edge of its whorled weapon system . Here are the 25 exposure for your viewing pleasure .

The Milky Way as seen above New Zealand’s highest mountain, Aoraki.