Listed below are the most viewed photos and videos during 2014 by our global visitors:

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Mexico National Observatory

By: Stephane Guisard

The arc of the Milky Way is photographed in this panoramic photo from San Pedro Mártir observatory, located in a mountain range with the same name in the Baja California peninsula, northwestern Mexico.

Sky of Two Hemispheres

By: Babak A. Tafreshi

In this moonlit night the Orion stands on its head above the Southern Ocean (Antarctic Ocean). The right image shows the Hunter above Alborz Mountains of Iran. The comparing images also illustrate two different environment at the same time.

3

The Milky Way: Winter vs. Summer

By: Kwon O Chul

In northern hemisphere the summer nights is the time we look in the direction of the center of our Galaxy, and the brightest region of the Milky Way is facing us (right). Then in winter we see the opposite direction and the Milky Way is only a dim patch of light (left).

4

After a Solar Storm

By: Kwon O Chul

Following a solar storm that reached the Earth magnetic field, the dancing northern lights or aurora borealis fill the night sky over the northern Canada.

5

Night Hides a World But Reveals a Universe

By: Babak A. Tafreshi

The Milky Way and planet Venus in the evening twilight over Lake Turkana, northern Kenya.

6

Night Sky in H-alpha

By: Tunc Tezel

The left-side all-sky view is a "normal" nightscape image of winter stars above the Alamut Castle and village of Gazor Khan in the Alborz Mountains, Iran. On the right image the photographed has used a H-alpha filter (for DSLR cameras) that blacks most of the visible light except for a narrow band in the red part of the spectrum.

7

Capitol Reef Galactic View

By: Wally Pacholka

The Milky Way shimmers like a cosmic rainbow over Utah's Capitol Reef National Park in this clear June night. City dwellers worldwide rarely see such starry night skies due to light pollution.

8

A Starry Night of Azores

By: Babak A. Tafreshi

The Milky Way over the Furnas crater lake in the Sao Miguel island of Azores, Portugal, Atlantic Ocean.

9

Greenland August Night

By: Juan Carlos Casado

The northern lights (aurora borealis) photographed above southern Greenland in the short darkness of a late August midnight.

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The View From on High

By: Babak A. Tafreshi