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Winter Wonder
Like a beacon drawing the eye skyward, this picture of Yosemite National park in California showcases the famous Half Dome, winter stars, the Milky Way, and planet Jupiter (the brightest).
The clear winter night evokes the crisp bite of a Sierra Nevada evening. — Wally Pacholka
Starry Night of Swedish Mountains
An early January winter night in Swedish Mountains. Faint thin clouds are mixed with the patchy light of the Milky Way. At right stars of Orion, Taurus and Pleiades (seven sister cluster) are visible from the horizon to top. The little red circle near the image center is the beautiful Rosette nebula. — P-M Heden
Tyrol, Where Mountains Meet Starry Sky
The Alpine state of Tyrol in western Austria is a meeting point of stunning mountains and starry sky.
This view of the Milky Way looks toward the south at the border with Italy. The towns in northern Italy have illuminated the horizon. Down in the valley the Brenner Autobahn is visible, a short famous highway that connects Innsbruck to Italy through the Alps.
Starry Winter Landscape
Fresh snow fall has covered Zagros Mountains of Iran under a starry winter night. Light from the setting moon has illuminated the top of these mountains near Natanz in central Iran.
Arizona Moonset
by Fred Espenak
The Moon sets over mountains in the southern Arizona in this single exposure image through a small telescope.
Venus over Qayen
by Amirreza Kamkar
Eclipse Behind the Mountains
Stars and Rocks
Photographed from the top of 3600-meter Mount Gargash, northern stars trail around the celestial pole as seen above Zagros Mountains of Iran during this one-hour exposure with a film camera.
Reverse Energy (by LalliSig)
Los Cuernos from Lago Pehoe (by twiga269 ॐ FreeTIBET)
Torres del Paine National Park (Parque Nacional Torres del Paine) is a national park encompassing mountains, a glacier, a lake, and river-rich areas in southern Chilean Patagonia. The Cordillera del Paine is the centerpiece of the park. It lies in a transition area between the Magellanic subpolar forests and the Patagonian Steppes. The park is located 112 km (70 mi) north of Puerto Natales and 312 km (194 mi) north of Punta Arenas. Bernardo O’Higgins National Park is its neighbour to the west, while Los Glaciares National Park is located to the north in Argentine territory.
Much of the geology of the Paine Massif area consists of Cretaceous sedimentary rocks that have been intruded by a Miocene-aged laccolith. Orogenic and erosional processes have shaped the present-day topography, glacial erosion being the main one responsible for the sculpturing of the massif in the last tens of thousands of years. A good example of the latter are the Cuernos del Paine, whose central bands of exposed granite strongly contrast with the dark aspect of their tops, which are remnants of a heavily eroded sedimentary stratum. In the case of Las Torres, what once was their overlying sedimentary rock layer has been completely eroded away, leaving behind the more resistant granite.
