Artist Thierry Cohen imagines what the night skies of the world's largest cities could be like sans light pollution. The images are the focus of a new exhibit in New York City.
Cohen created this image using a photo of the sky over the Western Sahara. [Full Story]
The Milky Way and California's San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge stand out prominently in this cityscape. The sky photo was taken in the Mojave Desert. [Full Story]
By combining a photo from the Western Sahara and Hong Kong by night, Thierry Cohen creates a scientifically accurate view of what the city could be like free of light pollution. [Full Story]
The Los Angeles Opera House stands in the foreground under a blanket of stars captured at Joshua Tree National Park in California. [Full Story]
Los Angeles is darkened under a blanket of stars in this "Darkened Cities" photo. The starscape was captured at Joshua Tree National Park. [Full Story]
The Brooklyn Bridge stands starkly against a sea of stars. The sky photo was captured in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. [Full Story]
Starlight shines through the windows of the Empire State Building in this photo of a darkened New York City. [Full Story]
Stars shine brightly above the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The sky photo was captured in Malta, Mont. [Full Story]
The clouds of the Milky Way hover above the Paris skyline. [Full Story]
The Luxor Obelisk stands starkly in an empty Parisian square under a bowl of stars captured in Malt, Mont. [Full Story]
This starscape over Rio de Janeiro was captured in the Atacama Desert in Chile. [Full Story]
This composite photo of the sky over the Atacama Desert in Chile shows what the darkened sky could look like over the city in the Southern Hemisphere. [Full Story]
The highways of Shanghai are still with a South Morocco sky shining above the city. [Full Story]
The Milky Way glows brightly over Shanghai's skyline. [Full Story]
This darkened Tokyo intersection dims beneath the night sky photo taken in Death Valley, Calif. [Full Story]
