Space Image of the Day Gallery (October 2017)

Happy Halloween!

Gowrishankar L.

Tuesday, October 31, 2017: Star trails swirl over three smiling jack-o'-lanterns in this night sky photo by amateur astronomer Gowrishankar Lakshminarayanan. To create this stellar view, he captured 30 photos of the night sky, each taken with a 30-second exposure time, and stacked all of the frames. — Hanneke Weitering

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