Checkout this amazing photo of the Milky Way seen from inside a cave. This is the latest work from Wally Pacholka. [LINK]

“Pacholka, 59, an architect from Long Beach, California, relied on the light of a crescent moon to illuminate the subject and chose the area because of the near-absence of ambient light.

He said: ‘I had to drive 800 miles each way five times to get the shot right. And I had to hike two miles to the cave and back again at night, getting lost each time I came out.’

His photo shows the Milky Way – estimated to be 100,000 light years in diameter and 1,000 light years deep – and Jupiter (to the top left), the biggest planet in the solar system with a diameter 11 times that of Earth’s.

After Venus, Jupiter is the second-brightest planet despite being about 390million miles from Earth.

The cave, which has been carved out of the desert’s red sandstone rock, lies to the south-east of Salt Lake City and is estimated to be 300million years old. The area is rich with Native American ruins.”