Vikas Chander from New Delhi, India
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) looms above the iconic dried out camel thorns of the Deadvlei clay pan in Namibia. In billions of years, repeated close encounters with the Milky Way will strip the LMC of its gas and dust before it eventually merges with our galaxy. The photographer captured the sky with an astromodified Sony mirrorless camera, taking a stack of 12 exposures of 5 minutes each at f/2.8 and ISO 800.