Milky Way Shines in Orange Over Mauna Kea (Photo)

On a tranquil Hawaii vacation, astrophotographer Mike Beck took a chance road trip — where he captured this image of the glimmering orange night sky. "Lucky enough to be in Hawaii where I rented a car and drove up to the Ellison Onizuka Astronomy Center [June 28] at Mauna Kea and I was richly rewarded," Beck wrote in an email to Space.com. The Milky Way, the galaxy containing our own solar system , is a barred spiral galaxy with roughly 400 billion stars.