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Cosmic confluence

Anushtup Roychoudhury from Kolkata, India

The crowded core of the Milky Way (at top) and the colorful Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex (at right) hang over the Drang-Drung Glacier in India’s Ladakh region. The imager captured the sky with a Sony mirrorless camera and a 50mm lens, taking 2-minute subframes at f/3.5 and ISO 2500 for a total of 60 minutes of exposure.