It glows with the combined light of billions upon billions of faraway stars, each too faint for our eyes to resolve.
Dark moonlight sky full#
Late summer is one of the best times of year to view the full splendor of our galaxy, the Milky Way.įrom our vantage point within the galaxy, the Milky Way appears as a huge, shimmering cloud of light arching from the southern horizon to high overhead. Just click here or on the image below to open the printable map-then bring outside!
Here’s how to see the Milky Way in the summer night sky. Something tight in my chest eased a fraction of its grip.Welcome to the Night Sky Map for August! This month, we look at one of the night sky’s most magnificent sights: the summer Milky Way-the galaxy in which our Sun and all of its planets (including us!) are located. With the sky wheeling overhead and the lights shooting past below, up and down became mirrors- until we were sailing through a sea of stars. 'Do not,' I hissed, focusing on the approaching tiara of lights in the eternal wall of the mountain. I scowled at the soft laugh that ticked my ear. We swerved into an updraft, rising so fast it was instinct to clutch his black tunic as my stomach clenched. Even the smell of him reminded me of the wind- rain and salt and something citrus-y I couldn't name. Rhys' body was hard and warm against mine, a solid force of nature crafted and honed for this. The air was chill, but no wind other than a gentle breeze brushed my face- even as we soared with magnificent precision for the House of Wind. The city lights dropped away until Velaris was a rippling velvet blanket littered with jewels, until the music no longer reached even our pointed ears. Rhys's hand slid under my knees while the other wrapped around my back and ribs, and we flapped up, up, up into the star-freckled night, into the liquid dark and singing wind. We shot into the sky, fast as a shooting star.īefore my yelp finished echoing, the city had yawned wide beneath us. “I studied the wings, the arm around my waist. You try to take them in - the neck cranes, the eyes roll, and the mind boggles until this debilitating sense of inverted vertigo overcomes you.” Then bigger still - Cetus, Eridanus, Ophiuchus, and Hydra, spanning nearly the whole of a hemisphere, sunk below the equator in that weird underworld of obscure southern formations. The constellations, in their way, almost bring into sharper focus the immensity and insanity of it all - monsters and giants brought to life in all their gigantic monstrosity Orion and Hercules striding across the sky, limbs reaching for lightyears, only to be dwarfed by the likes of Draco, Pegasus, or Ursa Major. And yet, it's somehow the bringing to order of this chaos which perhaps has always disturbed me most. “That black, maddening firmament that vast cosmic ocean, endlessly deep in every direction, both Heaven and Pandemonium at once mystical Zodiac, speckled flesh of Tiamat all that is chaos, infinite and eternal.
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