This breathtaking composite image shows just how huge the Milky Way really is.Amateur astronomer Juan Carlos Casado stitched together this extraordinary shot from nine photos of the night sky.
All were taken in a national park in the Canary Islands away from light pollution, resulting in images of astounding clarity.
Viewed as one digitally-fused image, as they are here, and the result is a 360-degree panorama.
The faint band of light that stretches across the sky is the disc of our spiral galaxy. It appears to encircle Earth - this is because we are inside the disc.
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