Cool! Milky Way Shines Twice for Skywatcher (Photo) [bestandroiddoubledinheadunit950.blogspot.com]

Cool! Milky Way Shines Twice for Skywatcher (Photo) [bestandroiddoubledinheadunit950.blogspot.com]

Kelli Klymenko, a photographer in Sedona, took this image of the Milky Way from Cathedral Rock Trail in Arizona.

The Milky Way appears to point right at a Juniper tree in this skywatching image from Sedona, Arizona.

Kelli Klymenko, a photographer in Sedona, took the image from Cathedral Rock Trail in Arizona. It’s a familiar shot for Klymenko.

“I photographed this particular juniper a few years ago and wanted to revisit this shot under our brilliant dark skies,” she wrote in an email to Space.com. [See more amazing Milky Way photos by stargazers]

Earth’s host galaxy, the Milky Way, is a barred spiral galaxy  seen as a band of light in the night sky. It stretches between 100,000 and 120,000 light-years in diameter. It is estimated that the galaxy has approximately 400 billion stars. At the center of the galaxy lies a gigantic black hole billions of times the size of the sun.

Klymenko says she prefers to capture a moment as she experiences it, and doesn’t do too much processing afterwards. For this shot, she light-painted the tree with her phone and worked with the orange from her glowing headlamp.

Dust off your spiral arms and fatten up your bulge — it’s time to tap into your inner galaxy to test your smarts about the Milky Way. Our home in space is a strange and wondrous place that scientists are still trying to figure out. See what you know!

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Milky Way Quiz: Test Your Galaxy Smarts

Dust off your spiral arms and fatten up your bulge — it’s time to tap into your inner galaxy to test your smarts about the Milky Way. Our home in space is a strange and wondrous place that scientists are still trying to figure out. See what you know!

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“The entire experimentation process is a lot of fun out in the field, especially if you don’t take yourself too seriously,” she added. “That’s the best part.” She used a Canon 5D Mark III camera; a 14mm Rokinon manual lens; 20 seconds; ISO 8000.

Editor’s note: If you have an amazing skywatching photo you’d like to share it with Space.com and our news partners for a possible story or image gallery, please contact managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.

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