Huenchupan family members gather around a campfire as part of celebrations of We Tripantu, the Mapuche new year, in Lof Soyinka, Los Rios, southern Chile, on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Coinciding with the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the late June festivities mark the “new rising of the sun” and signify “the change and renovation of life, in all senses”, according to Amanda Huichalaf. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)





An overlay image of 128 photographs shows circumpolar star trails over San Telmo tower in Ubiarco, Cantabria, Spain, early 14 December 2021, during the Gemenids meteor shower. (Photo by Pedro Punte Hoyos/EPA/EFE)





Stars fill the sky over a residential building before the curfew in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Friday, August 26, 2022. (Photo by Leo Correa/AP Photo)





A long exposure picture shows stars above the abandoned car on a bank of the Ili River in Almaty region, Kazakhstan, February 5, 2022. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





Stars shine above a giant sequoia tree on August 25, 2022 in Sequoia National Forest, California. According to the U.S. Forest Service, wildfires have destroyed nearly 20 percent of all giant sequoia trees in the past two years amid ongoing drought, increased temperatures and fuel (vegetation) buildup. The massive trees can live for over 3,000 years and average between 180 to 250 feet in height. The Forest Service has begun emergency action to reduce fuels near unburned giant sequoia groves in the Sequoia National Forest in an effort to reduce wildfire risks to the trees. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)





A majestic elephant visits the watering hole at the Zimanga Private Game Reserve in South Africa under the Milky Way in August 2022. (Photo by Sean Weekly/Animal News Agency)





Pictured is the Perseid Meteor Shower over Stonehenge in Wiltshire in the second decade of August 2022. This image is the result of around eight hours of constant 30-second images facing the Milky Way across three nights over Stonehenge. (Photo by Nick Bull/pictureexclusive.com)





Long exposure of starlight trails above the dead Euphrates Poplar trees at the desert area on June 21, 2022 in Luntai County, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. (Photo by Que Hure/VCG via Getty Images)





A beautiful field of bluebells lit up by the Milky Way on St Boniface Down – the highest point on the Isle of Wight, south coast of England on May 6, 2022. (Photo by Chad Powell/Animal News Agency)





The Milky Way appears over a mountain in the Valle de la Luna in the Atacama Desert, considered the driest place on earth on August 26, 2022 near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. The extreme aridity makes the Atacama Desert one of the clearest places on earth to view the night sky. Much of the region receives less than half an inch of rainfall per year, and some areas none at all for hundreds of years. Located in Chile's northern third between two mountain ranges, the Atacama is possibly the oldest desert on earth, experiencing extreme aridity for at least 3 million years. The area is home to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope. The Valley of the Moon is so called because of its lunar and even Mars-like appearance. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images,)





View of the Christ the Protector statue under construction in Encantado, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on October 29, 2021. The statue will be larger than Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer and the third-largest in the world. (Photo by Silvio Avila/AFP Photo)





The Milky Way rises on July 29, 2022, above the 5th century basilica of Syria's Qalb Lozeh village in the northwestern Idlib province. The ancient lime-stone cathedral is the architectural forerunner of France's famed Notre Dame cathedral. The abandoned church is widely hailed as Syria's finest example of Byzantine-era architecture and is considered to have inspired Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals in Europe, including the Paris landmark. (Photo by Omar Haj Kadour/AFP Photo)





View of the night sky illuminating the Manicore river, located in the municipality of Manicore, Amazonas state, Brazil, in the Amazon rainforest, on June 07, 2022. (Photo by Mauro Pimentel/AFP Photo)





The Milky Way shines during its peak at 2.30am above boats moored on Ullswater in The Lake District, Cumbria on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)





A rendered timelapse image shows circumpolar stars over some windmills taken from La Lora wasteland in Cantabria, Spain, early 31 May 2022. (Photo by Pedro Puente Hoyos/EPA/EFE)