One
August evening, photographer Tunç Tezel trekked to Uludag National Park
near his hometown of Bursa, Turkey. He intended to watch the moon and
evening planets, then take in the Perseids meteor shower.
He came away with this image of the Milky Way's vast star fields hanging over a valley of human-made light.
"We live in a spiral arm of the Milky Way, so when we gaze through the
thickness of our galaxy, we see it as a band of dense star fields
encircling the sky," said Kukula, the Royal Observatory's public
astronomer.
"The galaxy's central region contains a vast bulge
of ancient stars, so when we look in this direction, the Milky Way band
appears to swell and thicken."
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