Alien Throne by Marcin Zajac: Awarded Milky Way Photo
Alien Thron is a Milky Way photo that honored the People's Choice in 2021's Astronomy Photography of the Year and claimed NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
What is the story of this photo?
I took this photo during a road trip to a remote desert in New Mexico. In addition to the otherworldly landscape, the sky in this location is very dark though you can see some light pollution on the horizon from the town about 50 miles away. I was rewarded with an opportunity to camp under a dark and beautiful sky and the only sound breaking the silence at night were coyotes howling in the distance. The bright objects to the left of the hoodoo are the planetary duo of Jupiter and Saturn which were unusually close that night.
Marcin Zajac is a landscape photographer from Poland who resides in Northern California, working as a software engineer. His passion for photography has taken him to various breathtaking locations, including Australia's coastline and Iceland's rugged volcanic landscape. Marcin's work has earned recognition in multiple photography contests, such as being shortlisted four consecutive times (2019-2022) for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year by Royal Museum Greenwich and winning the People's Choice award in 2021. Additionally, he was awarded NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day in 2020 and placed among the top 101 photographs in the prestigious International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition in 2021.
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