The Milky Way, shot from the North Sea coast

syntheticsam · 12 months

light pollution makes me sad :(

casual_shoggoth · 12 months

Beautiful photo. Makes me sad that I will likely never go to space.

ItWillBeMine · 12 months

partinerns · 12 months

Does this mean the Earth rotates perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy? How about the rotation of the disk-shaped solar system in relation to the disk-shaped galaxy? I always assumed they were in plane, but I guess there's no real reason for it to be that way.

apextek · 12 months

whats up with the bright light on the path at the end?

mgobucky · 12 months

Great pic. Just made it into a background. Here it is in 1920x1080 in case anyone else wants it.

BrutalJones · 12 months

Suddenly reapers

seawolf_ · 12 months

Where exactly was this taken? It wasn't Druridge Bay by any chance?

matthank · 12 months

I see a meteor there too.

With that dark sky, you can probably see one every couple of minutes, anytime.

Weaseal · 12 months

I used to live in a very, very (very) rural part of the world, and that picture is accurate. On a clear night without much moon, the bands of the milky way glow like a giant arm reaching up from the horizon, and it's fucking gorgeous.

jcmcbeth · 12 months

I bet there would be a lot more people interested in space if there was no light pollution.

[deleted] · 12 months

Check out the front page of Bing today

YouAreTheTourist · 12 months

Can you see this with the naked eye at that location?

daydreamer90 · 12 months

i always thought pictures like this were fake. Not saying that it is but...Just seems so surreal.

neverending_alone · 12 months

Can we have a high res. version of this please?

sonofslackerboy · 12 months

so the galaxy is a vagina?

Tayto2000 · 12 months

Pictures like this are so beautiful it almost makes me sick.

mrthemike · 12 months

WTB wallpaper of this. Thanks.

raiango · 12 months

The figure in the background of the photo makes the photo so much stronger. Well done.

kaljaen · 12 months

That'd be a hell of a long walk.

pyr0maniac · 12 months

kinda looks like the stair way to heaven.

Aitioma · 12 months

That photo was shot on the island Sylt in Northern Germany.

It is an incredibly beautiful island, indeed.

It's my favourite island not only due to its form (it's more or less an incredibly long beach in the middle of the sea).

Crocket_IV · 12 months

oops, got a shooting star in there!

Tron-Gorf · 12 months

6000 years old, lol

grumpypants_mcnallen · 12 months

That must be the only picture from Sylt without a Strandkorb.

PanicStil · 12 months

How the hell can this have 7k downvotes?

mesosorry · 12 months

If we had this view everywhere, I don't think I'd be on Reddit quite as much. It makes me wonder how different the average person would be if we saw this every night.

Here's a great somewhat recent thread y'all should enjoy, and my favorite comment from it. Still gives me the shivers when I read it.

Minimumtyp · 12 months

If you like this, you'll love r/spaceporn.

Space has the weirdest boner right now

irishflu · 12 months

Looks like a giant, intragalactic vulva.

bus_troll · 12 months

http://i.imgur.com/psx2w.jpg

Karzul · 12 months

That is absolutely stunning.

a300zx4pak · 12 months

pic of the Milky Way taken from inside the Milky Way!

ChezzmasterX · 12 months

blue shift?

swivelcannon · 12 months

Exposure? Aperture? ISO? Must know....

Slurrrr · 12 months

This picture is absolutely amazing

mindbleach · 12 months

Highly relevant.

Twitch008 · 12 months

Fucking gorgeous...makes me want to move into the middle of nowhere even more...

Green42 · 12 months

That is so damn beautiful

MrPoletski · 12 months

Legit, you can see the muzzle flash around the guy in the distance.

My question is though, where's the gun?

PassionateMusicGuy · 12 months

Halo!

stay_black · 12 months

How can people watch this in the sky and feel alone?

Dohr · 12 months

looks like fire almost...

Supreme333 · 12 months

one of the many reason i love leaving the city and going to the country side you just dont get this in the cities

G-Mork · 12 months

I realized the moment I fell into the fissure, that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned.

wikikiwi · 12 months

ah, sweet romance

ParsonsProject93 · 12 months

I don't mean to seem like an advertiser or anything, but the Bing homepage today (US version with a browser that supports HTML5 video) is a time lapse of of the milky way as seen from the Canary Islands in spain,and it looks beautiful. maybe it's from the same point/I'm not sure.

the_color_puce · 12 months

its so awesome! I wish that I were there right now. I'd just lay down and stare at the stars.

MetalGuitarist · 12 months

Just set this as my iPhone background. Sweet!

Gyro88 · 12 months

DAE see the walkway as wood slabs?

[deleted] · 12 months

I want to go there. Not to where the man is standing, but to where he's looking.

Ianator · 12 months

Getting some serious Myst vibes from this.

Lopkop · 12 months

After reading the "How do I go down on you, ladies?" article just above this one, I'm seeing that Milky Way in a different way...

Upgrayedd1337 · 12 months

At the base, it looks like a marker, but towards the top it looks like Isaac's head facing towards the right. Or I might just be really high.

mermadon · 12 months

Beautiful!

[deleted] · 12 months

Amazing!

annoying_meme_user · 12 months

My god... it's full of stars!

chemistry_teacher · 12 months

One of the best places to see this on the coast in the US is on an island in Maine. The most accessible one is Mount Desert Island, in Acadia National Park. They recently hosted their 3rd annual Acadia Night Sky Festival.

SlickUK · 12 months

And I got excited the other day because I found a spot where I could see hundreds of stars...I fail at life :(

RahvinDragand · 12 months

Is that The Highlander?

Horpy · 12 months

The skygina is real! Stephen King is a genius.

fpeltwkqrjt · 12 months

Wait wait wait wait... wait a minute.

What? This is not photoshopped?

vampire_kitty · 12 months

Beautiful. :)

erniebornheimer · 12 months

The Backbone of the Night.

deliriousmintii · 12 months

I love night sky pictures. I remember seeing these as a kid, and even within the past 10 years it's really diminished. :( As much as we tease people who live in Iowa or other farmland placed, they have the best views for star-gazing.

TheCilician · 12 months

oh my holy %*&^! that's beautiful.

assman1229 · 12 months

Vagina in the sky.

TheoreticalFunk · 12 months

I don't know why I just realized that the galaxy disc is UP from our perspective until now. Mind = Blown.

filthgrinder · 12 months

amazing....

Ikouze · 12 months

Where the hell can I go to see the sky like this? So much light pollution, I never see more than 5 stars at a time. Really sucks :(

[deleted] · 12 months

I see about 5 stars when i get lucky :(

awaizy · 12 months

Nature in its most spectacular form.

yellowcub · 12 months

Breath taking.

minibeardeath · 12 months

Someone get a bucket of holy water! That man's soul is on fire!!!

JuicedCardinal · 12 months

Sometimes I wish I lived on a planet in the Large Magellanic Cloud, so that I could see the Milky Way in all its brilliance taking up like half the night-time sky.

godlesspaladin · 12 months

Is it really possibly to see the sky like this without a camera? I've never been anywhere on the planet where it was dark enough, though somehow I feel the only way such a picture can be made is because the camera can capture all the light longer than our eyes can. Would it be wrong of me to expect to see something like this with my naked eye if I was in a dark enough region of the planet?

[deleted] · 12 months

Gods jizzy space napkin.

btynan1 · 12 months

Cosmic Orgasm

Fumanchewy · 12 months

Ah, there's so many mysteries in life, and moments like these, just makes reality even more jaw dropping

sheethra · 12 months

Balmedie?

HRP · 12 months

Wow, Minecraft really got a facelift.

spicymelon · 12 months

Google Maps location would be nice :)

cjleigh · 12 months

All things follow the path of the beam.

le_crap · 12 months

Upvotes for awesomeness

stratamartin · 12 months

I live on the North Sea Coast!

Flearis · 12 months

I can hardly believe this is shot from the North Sea Coast. There's no light pollution and it's steal clear at the horizon...

dafones · 12 months

No wonder ancient cultures flipped the fuck out.

moving-target · 12 months

TRON

emjaysea · 12 months

Two comments come to mind:

Brilliant; and,
That's a book cover!

strat_squam · 12 months

In my wildest dreams. Saved.. as a reminder. Keeping my standards high... I wont "settle down" anywhere unless I cant count the number of stars in the sky. The futures excites me.

adelav · 12 months

I'd very much like to see this live.

[deleted] · 12 months

Now my new wallpaper at work.

Strix667 · 12 months

Que the halo theme song.

atomicscissors · 12 months

That's not the Milky Way. That's God's vagina.

hobbes203 · 12 months

Where can I go to vacation her.

squintz00 · 12 months

How has this gotten more than 3K down votes????? Reddit is so confusing to me.

[deleted] · 12 months

Anyone else notice the demon in the picture? Edit: Counted 3 of them.

ranovr32 · 12 months

That is what it looks like when I reach orgasm.

[deleted] · 12 months

The backbone of night.

TheLinz87 · 12 months

Walking the black road...

nickateen · 12 months

Here come the creationist loons.

DrKnockers04 · 12 months

I NEVER get tired of pictures of the center of our galaxy. Amazing.

AnnieIWillKnow · 12 months

That is fucking beautiful.

donvito7335 · 12 months

i dont always get astounded but when i do its over pics like this

hero0fwar · 12 months

New background for my phone, fuck yea

fvckgirz · 12 months

that is seriously breathtakingly beautiful. damn you los angeles sky for hiding the gloriousness that is above me!

Roflkopt3r · 12 months

One of the joys when I'm in the village where my mother grew up, and when beeing in the mountains switzerland; I don't see many stars anymore living in Osnabrück and Paderborn (both around 150,000 citizens, Germany).

Natural lights are just so beatiful when beeing used to citylights...

dasexymamas · 12 months

This is so beautiful.

modex20 · 12 months

Every time someone mentions something about the Milky Way, I instantly think of that scene from wifeysworld where she's like "ooh give me a milky way facial" right as he spaffs all over her eyes, nose, and mouth.

psistarpsi · 12 months

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. - Plato

I certainly feel like that whenever I look at the night sky.

HashRunningRapist · 12 months

Winter is coming...

[deleted] · 12 months

"The rising of the milky way".

IfoundItForYou · 12 months

Here ya go

TheHolimeister · 12 months

Beautiful. Wish light pollution would stop hiding such wonderful things from us.

clementinefeline · 12 months

I hope at some point in my life I will be able to see a sky like that.

LGein · 12 months

would love to see a higher resolution...waaaaaaaaay higher

vnkid · 12 months

It's like a stairway to heaven.

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