I placed my phone up against a beer can on a picnic table and set it for a 30-second nighttime exposure.

I am sometimes surprised by what it picks up that I cannot necessarily process with my own vision.

This capture absolutely floored me.

@TimAkimoff I started digging around YouTube about the origins of our understanding of the Milky Way, because how can we know about the galaxy if we're in it? And that's when I learned you can see the disc extending across the night sky. It's beautiful and amazing. To be able to discern the shape of this immense thing, even if just a cross section, is somehow humbling. There it is, a billion stars spinning together in a pinwheel, and I'm just watching it from my backyard.
@aglisson I’m blown away by how much it it we can’t see.