Stargazing. For ever.

January 25, 2011 10:12 AM

Haunting images of the night sky above UNESCO world heritage sites: the ruins of the Mayan city of Tikal and Easter Island by astronomer Stéphane Guisard; above Uluru by Kwon O Chul. Much more.

Related: Gigagalaxy Zoom, which features contributions from Stéphane; some previous mentions of Astrosurf. I found Stéphane's work via Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy blog.

posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul (10 comments total)

Gorgeous. Amazing photos. Great post.
posted by Splunge at 10:27 AM on January 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

Awesome pictures. Thanks for this.
posted by never used baby shoes at 10:48 AM on January 25, 2011

Yeah this is incredible.
posted by Lutoslawski at 11:10 AM on January 25, 2011

Hey, Lama, how about a little something, you know, for the effort?
posted by puny human at 11:26 AM on January 25, 2011

like wow,as an amateur student of the earth history, space constellations, and such, those are the best photos yet i've seen. LOL,now thats a really nice post.
posted by tustinrick at 11:40 AM on January 25, 2011

Beautiful! Thanks for posting!
posted by jillithd at 11:53 AM on January 25, 2011

Amazing. Thank you.
posted by saladpants at 11:59 AM on January 25, 2011

This was several kinds of awesome.

Gratitude...and that's right.
posted by Hickeystudio at 12:35 PM on January 25, 2011

Best of the Web. Absolutely.
posted by pointystick at 1:12 PM on January 25, 2011

I was thinking that a couple of the pictures (who am I kidding, all of them) would make great wallpaper. Then I didn't do it. My various icons would occlude parts of the pictures. And I won't do that. I'll just have to favorite this and look at them in a pristine state.
posted by Splunge at 5:34 PM on January 25, 2011