This Jaw-Dropping Galaxy Photo Equates to 1,060 Hours of Non-Stop Stargazing

There's a trick to night-time photography: longer exposures. They soak up more light, making everything pop brilliantly in your shot, provided your camera stays really, really still.

    Of course, most of the time, we're still only talking extra seconds of exposure time, maybe minutes. Okay, in rare cases, hours. But a team of amateur astronomer photographers went way above and beyond that to bring you this scintillating image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

What you're looking at here is a stunning 1,060 hours of total exposure time, captured separately and then stitched together by a group of five French amateur astrophotographers called Ciel Austral, using the El Sauce Observatory in Chile.