Which attracts your eye more -- the sky or the ground?

On the ground are rocky peaks in
Teide National Park on
Tenerife Island of the
Spanish
Canary Islands off the northwestern coast of
Africa.

The
volcanic landscape features old island summits and
is sometimes used as a testbed for instruments on
future Martian rovers.

The lights of a nearby hotel shine on the far left.

Storm clouds are visible on the horizon, artificially strutted from multiple exposures.

Dividing the sky, across the middle of the above deep image, is the
vertical band of the
Milky Way Galaxy.

The red circle on the right is
Barnard's Loop,
near the center of which are the famous
belt stars of the
constellation Orion.

Soon after the above image was taken, during an evening earlier this year,
storm clouds rolled across, and
indoor locations
began to attract eyes the most.

Read the full story:
Deep Orion Over the Canary Islands

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This remarkable scene combines multiple exposures
recorded on the evening of January 18th from a waterside perspective in
Hong Kong, China.

It follows a young crescent Moon,
with brilliant planet Jupiter to its
left, as they set together in the western sky.

Their two luminous trails are faintly paralleled by
trails of
background stars.

But easier to pick out are the short, bright airplane trails
converging toward the horizon and the Hong Kong International
Airport that seem to offer a frenzied imitation of the
celestial tracks.

Of course, the reflection of city lights and boat traffic
follows the water's surface.

Streaking car lights define the
span of the cable-stayed Ting Kau bridge.

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