Milky Way Arches Over Mount Lassen Wilderness
Monday, May 25th, 2026 at 9:15:20 AM · 2026/Mt Lassen Volcanic National Park
This wide-field astrophotography image captures the Milky Way galaxy's core region rising diagonally across the frame against a deeply dark night sky at Mount Lassen Volcanic National Park. Thousands of individual stars are resolved across the entire field, with the denser stellar clouds and dust lanes of the galactic band clearly visible in the upper-center and right portions of the frame. The silhouette of conifer tree branches intrudes from the upper-right corner, grounding the cosmic scene in the terrestrial wilderness setting. The image conveys a profound sense of remoteness and scale, emphasizing the exceptional dark-sky conditions found in this national park. The overall exposure reveals both faint star fields and the diffuse glow of the galactic core, though the image could benefit from brighter processing to reveal more detail.
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