A Galaxy Rises out of the Ocean

I do love a good Milky Way picture, especially when the composition, the foreground, is something striking or unexpected. Photographer Michael Shainblum (whom you may remember from the time-lapse animations "Existence" and "Into the Atmosphere", as well as a previous Milky Way photo I featured here) has done just such a thing, taking a lovely shot of our galaxy apparently rising out of the ocean: He was in Gaviota, California when he took this shot in April 2013. He used a fisheye lens, which is...