The Milky Way is seen over the Haleakala Observatory and the lights of Kahului, at right, Saturday, November 23, 2024 at the summit of Haleakala National Park near Kula, Hawaii. (Photo by Lindsey Wasson/AP Photo)





This long exposure picture shows a meteor (C) streaking as a satellite crosses the night sky over the Post-Camaldolese monastery in the village of Wigry, Suwalki region, during the annual Perseids meteor shower early on August 12, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP Photo)





This December 14, 2023 image made available by NOIRLab shows meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streaking across the sky above the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, in Tucson, Ariz. (Photo by NSF's NOIRLab via AP Photo)





An abandoned church is seen under a starry sky outside of the settlement of Semibratovo, Yaroslavl region, Russia, on October 5, 2024. Picture taken with long exposure. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)





A meteor streaks above a destroyed tank from the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, during the Perseid meteor shower on Bjelasnica mountain, Bosnia, Tuesday, August 13, 2024. (Photo by Armin Durgut/AP Photo)





A photographer has captured a remarkable night-time image of a Yorkshire viaduct in UK on August 31, 2024. (Photo by David Robertshaw/South West News Service)





Flares of northern lights color the sky over the White Mountains just after midnight, Friday, September 13, 2024, as viewed from a mountaintop in Chatham, N.H. Lights on the summit of Mount Washington can be seen on the ridgeline at left. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)





A view of the ancient city of Ephesus in the district of Selcuk, Izmir, Turkiye on August 21, 2024. The ancient city of Ephesus, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, welcomes its visitors with its renewed lighting within the scope of night museology practice. (Photo by Hamit Yalcin/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Embers float from a tree under a starry sky as the Line Fire slows for the evening after a sudden a late-season monsoon rain storm temporarily halted its 4,000-foot elevation climb up to the edge of mountain communities on September 7, 2024 near Running Springs, California. Thousands of people fled the fire, which began at the foothill city of Highland in heatwave conditions. It has grown to 17,459 acres and remains 0 percent contained. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)





Paul Dixon is an engineer by day and an astrophotographer by night. He shot this broken boat on Dungeness beach, Kent in the last decade of August 2024, 17 times, stacking the images upon each other before combining them with a similar composite of the Milky Way. (Photo by Paul Dixon/Media Drum Images)





A view shows comet C/2023 A3 - Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, meteors and satellite trails in the night sky above the Battle of Didgori memorial complex  in Didgori, Georgia on October 30, 2024. (Photo by Irakli Gedenidze/Reuters)





The Perseid meteor shower is decorating the night sky at the Cho Kyung-cheol Astronomical Observatory in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province, on the morning of August 13, 2017. This is not a photo of the meteor shower falling all at once, but rather a composite of 50 long exposure photos. (Photo by Nam Kang-ho)





The Milky Way over the Chapel-of-St-Peter-on-the-Wall at Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex, UK in the last decade of September 2024. (Photo by Dawid Glawdzin)





In a breathtaking culinary display, leading chef Ben Bayly produced a one-of-a-kind restaurant experience under the star-studded skies of Kura Tāwhiti, New Zealand, at the foothills of the Southern Alps, a short drive from Christchurch in the second decade of August 2024. New Zealand has taken matters in its own hands after years of its restaurants being overlooked by the Michelin Guide. (Photo by Jono Smit)





Comet C/2023 A3 - Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is seen in the sky above the artwork Dodekalitten at Lolland southern Zealand, Denmark on October 22, 2024. (Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix via AFP Photo)