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Two night landscapes: Left, the Milky Way over mountains reflected in a calm lake; right, the Milky Way stretches above trees and a rustic wooden cabin under a clear star-filled sky.

How to Turn a Flat, Noisy RAW Into a Finished Milky Way Photograph

The Milky Way that arched over the Tetons looked nothing like the RAW file that came home. At two in the morning, on Matt Suess' camera, it glowed. On his computer the next day it was flat and gray, the core buried in noise, the color drained out. Every photographer who has pointed a camera at the night sky knows that gap between the glow on the camera and the flat file the next morning. Getting that glow back is the real work.

A dense field of stars and cosmic dust fills the image, creating a golden and reddish nebula-like effect, with bright and faint stars scattered throughout the scene.

This Is the Most Detailed Photo of the Milky Way’s Center Ever Taken

For just over a single day, the European Space Agency's (ESA) cutting-edge Euclid Space Telescope pointed its lens toward the relatively close and extremely bright inner region of the Milky Way galaxy, known as the galactic bulge. The space telescope made good use of its time, capturing the largest and most detailed photo ever of the Milky Way's galactic center.