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Winter is fading
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.
What’s Launching This Week
Today in the History of Astronomy

May 2026
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