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In Syria, the Milky Way glimmers over a sea of rubble

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Years of violence in Syria's last major opposition bastion has created a landscape of ruin, eerily lit by the Milky Way in the night sky. These timelapses taken on an unusually clear night with no moon show the stark contrast between the grim devastation on the ground and the Milky Way.

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