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You’ve seen photos of star trails, and time-lapse videos of stars, but how about a combination of the two? …

Last week the U.S. Department of Energy gave a green light to a project that aims to build the …

Photographer Lincoln Harrison captures jaw-dropping photographs of star trails. Shooting from the Australian outback, he spends up to 15 hours creating each image of the night sky. Shooting with a Nikon D7000, Nikon D3100, and a wide assortment of lenses, Harrison captures a large number of exposures of the foreground and stars separately. He then combines the images (sometimes hundreds of them) into amazing photographs showing the sky dominated by colorful star trails.

This amazing photograph by Ricardo Mohr shows the volcano …

Night photographer Ben Canales made this image by stacking together roughly 50 different …

Photographer Mike Rosinski created this amazing image showing light trails from both fireflies and stars by stacking over 370 …

A 268-megapixel sensor might suffice for photographing the stars through a telescope, but apparently a sensor many times more powerful is needed for photographing alien planets from space.

Astronomy and photography enthusiast Alex Cherney spent 31 hours over six nights shooting …

Inspired by Tor Even Mathisen’s stunning time-lapse of the aurora borealis over Norway, amateur photographer Ágúst Ingvarsson …

Shoot a stunning time-lapse video of the Milky Way, and there’s a good chance it’ll go viral. Photographer Randy …

Amateur astronomy enthusiasts may be content with shooting the stars with a DSLR through a telescope, but what would …

Photographer Ben Canales created this great video tutorial teaching the basics of shooting the night sky. He goes over how to shoot quick test shots to set up your composition before discussing more in-depth tips and tricks for capturing the final shot, including the "Rule of 600".

Time-lapse videos of the night sky usually feature breathtaking views of stars spinning in the background, but …

What you see above is the largest true-color photograph of the night sky ever created, shot by 28-year-old amateur …

You don’t need fancy camera gear to capture beautiful images and video of the night sky. The above video …

If you live in an urban area, you probably don't see the night sky very clearly due to light pollution. Luckily, there's videos like this one to remind us how beautiful the sky above is when there aren't artificial lights drowning out the stars. This is a high-definition time-lapse of the Milky Way floating across the sky.

This is a stunning montage of timelapse clips created by Mike Flores during the past year. Many of the scenes are layered beautifully, with the desert in the foreground, clouds whizzing across the sky, and the universe spinning brightly in the background.

Last week we featured a stunning time-lapse video that unfortunately failed to capture Perseid meteor shower well because of too much air traffic in the area. Landscape photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee attempted the same kind of video in Joshua Tree National Park. Even though there's still quite a bit of air traffic, you can clearly see quite a few shooting stars that light up the sky.

This breathtaking timelapse was created by Tom Lowe of Timescapes, showing footage from …