A dark, jagged hilltop topped by a small church stands against a glowing night sky filled with stars. The Milky Way arches high overhead as a bright, dense band of light, with streaks and clumps of dark dust and red gas fading into a softer, mottled glow. The horizon is lit by a faint warm haze, separating the dark foreground from the richly textured starfield above.

📷 Ash Sayedi

The Milky Way’s winter arc is draped across St. Michael’s Church atop Brent Tor in Devon, England, in this scene captured April 6, 2026. The imager combined seven-panel panoramas for sky and foreground, using a 14mm lens on a modified mirrorless camera with tracked sky exposures of 90 seconds at f/2 and ISO 640 and foreground exposures of 5 seconds at f/8 and ISO 200.