Maine Photographer Captures Astonishing Images of the Milky Way

A professional astrophotographer honing his skills in rural Maine recently captured some vibrant images of the Milky Way emerging from the night sky.

"Living in rural Maine offers me some great opportunities to capture the beauty of our night sky with mostly very little light pollution. This spot at the top of a ridge in the small town of Palermo is a great example," said photographer Mike Taylor in an email he wrote to Space.com. "On this particular night there was quite a show of green airglow in the sky and a just a bit of yellow/orange glow from nearby towns on the horizon."

According to Taylor, he successfully took the first image as a single image capture, while using a 81 frame composite of a time lapse to capture the second – using a Nikon D7000.

To see more of Mike Taylor’s photography, visit his website by clicking here.