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Scintillating star trails

Huang Dandan/Liu Dongyu, taken from Town, Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, China

The stars spin above the north-south-aligned antennas of the Interplanetary Scintillation Observation (IPS) Telescope, China’s first radio telescope for studying interplanetary scintillation. This stacked image was captured with a Sony mirrorless camera and 14mm lens, with 15-second exposures at f/3.2 and ISO 5000.