Breathtaking images reveal the beauty of the Milky Way in photos taken from remote desert sand dunes
Incredible images were caught in Abu Dhabi by photographer Sebastian Tontsch
THESE stunning shots capture the beauty of the Milky Way above the deserts of Abu Dhabi.
The incredible set of pictures was taken by landscape photographer Sebastian Tontsch on the sand dunes of the Arab emirate.
Views of the night sky can often be obscured in Britain by heavy light pollution.
But the desolate reaches of the United Arab Emirates desert near Al Quaa afford some of the best views in the world of the cloud-like tail of the galaxy.
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The Milky Way – in which the Earth’s solar system is found - is just one of many galaxies that form the universe.
But it still contains an estimated ONE TRILLION stars - each like the Sun.
An estimated 100 BILLION planets span the 100,000 light-year-wide system.
The Milky Way's name comes from its cloudy appearance, caused by the light of densely packed stars merging together.
It was first identified by Italian polymath Galileo Galilei in 1610.
American astronomer Edwin Hubble later proved that the Milky Way was just one of many galaxies in the universe.
He had the famed Hubble Telescope - which has captured many iconic images of space - named in his honour when it was launched in 1990.
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