When an amateur atrophotographer, who is also a computer scientist as well as a mountaineering enthusiast, goes for a trek, something scientifically, yet ethereally beautiful is bound to happen. And that is exactly what happened when Kuntal A. Joisher, of Mumbai, India, was trekking in the Himalayas - over Mt. Manaslu to be precise.
A stunning image of the Milky Way was captured in the fall of 2014 during a trek on the mountains.
"And just as dusk turned into night, the Milky Way was right there shining on top of Mt. Manaslu. It was as if a volcano had erupted on top of Mt. Manaslu. One of the most surreal moments I've experienced during my climbs of big mountains!" Joisher wrote in an email to Space.com.
Joisher says that despite being happily married, he has been involved in another relationship for over 25 years... with photography, according to Huffington Post.
The Milky Way is the brightest object in the gamma-ray sky. Its glow is comes from a multitude of cosmic-ray particles slamming into interstellar gas and dust, generating gamma rays, according to NASA. Gravity holds together this mass of hundreds of billions of stars, enough gas and dust to make billions more stars, and at least ten times as much dark matter as all the stars and gas put together. And thanks to Kuntal A. Joisher, we can enjoy its beauty.
