00:00They look like scenes from another world. Meteors raining over Stonehenge, the Milky Way glowing
00:05above Scotland, and the northern lights dancing over Iceland. For UK-based astrophotographer
00:11Josh Jury, capturing those rare views takes clear sky, dark locations, and hours of patience.
00:18There is a lot of meticulous research involved and long exposure as well. When you see that final
00:24image and all those meteors appearing to rain down, that isn't what you see to the unaided eye.
00:30Dury says his fascination with space started when he was seven years old. There was a children's
00:35program and it was about Mars and I got curious because I wanted to know if there was life on
00:40other worlds. That childhood curiosity turned into a career photographing the night sky. On Scotland's
00:47Isle of Sky, Dury says the weather lined up with the Lyrid meteor shower. I was able to capture six
00:52meteors within a four or five hour period. Now he's using his work to show what light pollution
00:58is taking away. I remember what the sky looked like when I was only seven years old. Then
01:04to find three decades later, this is the situation we're now dealing and talking about it with.
01:09According to Dark Sky International, a third of the world's population cannot see the Milky
01:14Way because of light pollution.
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