Photo shows The Milky Way galaxy in the night sky above a lit-up rock. Smartphones are now advanced enough to take photos that were once only possible using bulky cameras. From our perspective ...

It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening spread of "Our Vanishing Night" in the November 2008 National ...

For the more than 100,000 years, humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night ... sky. In 1924, Mount Stromlo Observatory, located outside Canberra, took over observing the Milky Way.

Many of us have experienced it: camping in the Outback at night, no streetlights, no houselights, no skyglow of the city, just total darkness on the ground and the magic of starlight in the night sky.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at ... [+] Grasslands National Park ...

Nature of the nebulae In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number ... These glass plates recorded images of the night ...

Naomi Miles, the head of museum at the Australian ... to the night sky," he said. "It's this kind of romanticised, fantastical thing that people want to see the Milky Way. They want to go out ...