The Entire Plane of the Milky Way Captured in a Single Photo

By photographing two separate nighttime scenes, one in the northern hemisphere and the other in the southern hemisphere, amateur astrophotographer Maroun Habib cleverly produced this dazzling image of the complete galactic plane visible from Earth

“Is it possible to capture the entire plane of our galaxy in a single image? Yes, but not in one exposure — and it took some planning to do it in two. The top part of the featured image is the night sky above Lebanon, north of the equator, taken in 2017 June. The image was taken at a time when the central band of the Milky Way Galaxy passed directly overhead. The bottom half was similarly captured six months later in latitude-opposite Chile, south of Earth’s equator. Each image therefore captured the night sky in exactly the opposite direction of the other, when fully half the Galactic plane was visible.”

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佐藤修悦さん – Duct Tape Typographer from Tokyo’s Subways

「僕が今の仕事（駅の警備）に就いて、13～4 年経つんですよ。新宿駅に最初に行ったのが、2002年くらいかな。最初の勤務が新宿駅でね、構内が工事中で利用客をメガホンで誘導してたんですよね。ものすごい数の人が行き来してるでしょ。それを声だけで誘導するのは大変なんですよ。まあ、ほとんどの人に声が届かないじゃないですか。それで、目立つ案内表示を作ろうと思ったんです」
—— 修悦さん

‘Shinjuku Station was my first post, and it was under construction at the time, so I had to guide passengers using a megaphone. But there were so many people. Guiding them all with just my voice was impossible. Most of the people couldn’t even hear me. So I decided to make some signs to guide people that would really stand out.’
— Shuetsu Sato