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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.

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 ...

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.

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

For example, one astronomer sent me extraordinary wide field views of the Milky Way, taken from the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii using an ordinary SLR.' A good tip is to take pictures ...