If you live in LA, or any major city for that matter, you’ll know there’s something very unusual in the image above. It’s called the Milky Way, and it’s about as exotic as a cougar sighting.
For most of human history, people could look up at the night sky just about anywhere on Earth and enjoy the splendor of thousands of stars. But if you live in an urban enclave today, there’s a good chance you’ve never seen more than a dozen.
That’s why astrophotographers Harun Mehmedinovic and Gavin Heffernan are traveling across the country, visiting some of our nation’s darkest corners to capture rare portraits of the sky. They’re also creating composite and time-lapse photos, such as those shown here, to remind us just how brilliant the night is beneath the thin veil of artificial light. The artists hope to compile the entire collection into a new book which they’re now crowdfunding on Kickstarter
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