The stars and galaxy as seen from Rocky Mountain National Park.

Jeremy Thomas

Raphael Nogueira

silhouette photo of mountain during night time

Vincentiu Solomon

Alexander Andrews

NASA

Depending on the weather conditions, nearby lights, and camera settings, sometimes photographing at night produces some really interesting gradients.

Free Nature Stock

While I was away on a weeks holiday to Portugal, I decided to take a chance on seeing where the Milky Way and the Moon would be showing in relation to my location. To my surprise, the Moon was always below the horizon when the Milky Way was up. This was my first proper time photographing the Milky Way and I was seriously lucky to have really good conditions to capture it in. Would make a good phone background :)

Andy Holmes

Lake Tekapo in New Zealand is one of the best places on Earth to see the night sky. Boy where we in for a surprise, with no clouds and sub-zero temperatures, the milky way just seemed to pop like I have never seen it before.

Graham Holtshausen

Diego PH

high-angle photography of mountain at sunset

Galaxy background