# @natgeo on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CfhzEHhuNnA
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11680125-natgeo-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/469ee1aadc.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-07-02T23:19:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic (@NatGeo) — https://gondola.cc/NatGeo

## Caption

Photo and video by babaktafreshi | More than 4,000 years ago, this landscape in Australia had wild visitors from deep space—a dozen fragments of huge meteorites. The largest body left this 180-meter-wide crater (600 ft). Slide 2 is a video from inside one of the craters during early morning, with ambient bird sounds. The site of the Henbury craters in the Northern Territory was indeed one of the darkest places on Earth that I've observed in many years of night photography. The nearest town is Alice Springs, about 140 kilometers (85 mi) away, and the only "light dome" visible was a gentle glow from the south, which soon turned out to be the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy visible to the unaided eye. The southern Milky Way was most spectacular when the galactic center reached high in the sky. The foreground is lit by a few side flashes during the 30-second exposure. #twanight #meteorite #australia #impactcrater

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meteorite, australia, impactcrater, twanight

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