A meteor crosses the Milky Way on the Ari Atoll, Maldives, on the night of 17 August 2014. Ari Atoll (also called Alif or Alufu Atoll) is one of natural atolls of the Maldives. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA)





A person is leaning against a cross below of Milky Way on the Tour d'Ai mountain (2331 m) above Leysin, Switzerland, 29 July 2016. (Photo by Anthony Anex/EPA)





This January 9, 2014, photo shows, a view of the stars above Lindisfarne Castle in Holy Island, England, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Scientists reported Thursday, November 6, 2014, that as many as half of all stars may lie outside galaxies. (Photo by Scott Heppell/AP Photo)





In this November 7, 2010 file photo, a windmill is silhouetted against a starry sky during a time exposure in a field near Randolph, Kan. Scientists reported Thursday, November 6, 2014, that as many as half of all stars may lie outside galaxies. (Photo by Charlie Riedel/AP Photo)





A mosque is pictured at night in Idlib city, Syria June 8, 2016. (Photo by Ammar Abdullah/Reuters)





Polish photographer David Kaszlikowski took a series of stunning photographs of a glacier in the Karakoram region near K2, the second highest peak in the world in Himalayas, Pakistan. He sent a drone on flights to scout the surrounding landscape. (Photo by David Kaszlikowski/Rex Features)





The Milky Way streaks over the Neolithic Pentre Ifan burial chamber in Wales, UK on August 7, 2016. (Photo by Drew Buckley/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A long exposure image showing a meteor streaking across the night sky over the early Byzantine Christian basilica “Red Church” dating to the late 4th and 5th century near the town of Perushtitsa, some 120 kilometers from Sofia, Bulgaria, early 13 August 2015. The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year in summer when the Earth passes through debris and dust of the 109P/Swift-Tuttle comet. The Perseids, one of the brightest meteorite swarms, consist of a multitude of stellar particles which due to their high speed glow up and burn by entering Earth's atmosphere. (Photo by Vassil Donev/EPA)





A long exposure photo shows a Geminid meteor shower streaking across the night sky next to a pagoda over Doi Inthanon mountain in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand, early 15 December 2015. Geminids meteor shower can be visible annually in December. It is a phenomenon caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which its meteors radiate from a radiant of the sky in the constellation of Gemini. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA)





A long exposure of the starry sky over the Matterhorn mountain, seen from the Riffelberg area, in Zermatt, Switzerland, 14 April 2015. On the 14th of July, Zermatt celebrates 150 years since the first ascent of the Matterhorn mountain. On 14 July 1865, British climber Edward Whymper reached the peak of the Matterhorn (4,478 metres above sea level) together with his rope team. (Photo by Jean-Christophe Bott/EPA)





The Northern Lights shine over Pilot Knob State Park near Forest City, Iowa, in the early morning of Tuesday, November 3, 2015. (Photo by Bryon Houlgrave/The Des Moines Register via AP Photo)





The International Space Station is seen in this 30-second exposure as it flies over Elkton, Virginia, USA, early in the morning on August 1, 2015. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA)





A shooting star (L, top) is seen on the night sky during the perseid meteor shower in Jankowo, near Poznan, 11 August 2016. The first half of August is traditionally the best time to look out for meteors called “shooting stars”, or perseids which are the leftover dust particles of a comet tail associated with comet Swift-Tuttle. (Photo by Lukasz Ogrodowczyk/EPA)