Genuinely Awesome

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Full screen. Sound up.

Astronomer’s Paradise, the first episode of a Atacama Starry Nights timelapse movie series. Atacama Desert in Chile, South America, is home to some of the world’s leading telescopes.

Sez filmmaker Chrisoph Malin:

I hope we could at least capture the magic of this very special place a bit – this is how the night sky looks like, if people care about light pollution. And we need more people to do that.

Via Neatorama