**Image Credit & Copyright:** [Michael Abramyan](https://www.instagram.com/mikeabramyan)

In this case, the road is [US Route 163](https://youtu.be/0yTBvAhj7Nw?t=293) and iconic buttes on the [Navajo Nation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation)al [Reservation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_Nation#Reservation_and_expansion) populate the horizon. The band of [Milky Way Galaxy](https://science.nasa.gov/resource/the-milky-way-galaxy/) stretches down from the sky and appears to be a [continuation](https://blogmais.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/imagem_ht_07-04-23.jpg) of the road on [Earth](https://science.nasa.gov/earth/). Filaments of dust darken the [Milky Way](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190927.html), in contrast to billions of bright stars and several colorful glowing gas clouds including the [Lagoon](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap181112.html) and [Trifid](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210812.html) nebulas. 

The featured picture is a composite of images taken with the same camera and from the same location -- [Forrest Gump Point](https://www.travelinusa.us/forrest-gump-point/) in [Utah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah), [USA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States). The foreground was taken just after sunset in early 2021 September during the [blue hour](https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191011.html), while the background is a mosaic of four exposures captured a few hours later.

Route to the Galactic Center