The Milky Way so close you can almost taste it:

Ocean Sky from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.

A star-gazer has come a little bit closer to the final frontier - after spending 18 months photographing the night sky.

With just an ordinary digital camera, Alex Cherney turned thousands of snaps into an incredible time-lapse video of the cosmos.

Using long exposures to allow more light in, these breath-taking pictures from the southern tip of Australia demonstrate how he captured the dramatic way the sky changes at night.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2014312/The-Milky-Way-close-taste-Alex-Cherneys-breath-taking-snaps-galaxy-seen-naked-eye.html?ITO=1490