The writer, photographer, and filmmaker Michael Benson began creating high-definition composites of the solar system in 1990, inspired, he says, by “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Benson draws from a vast archive of rover and space-probe images, taken over decades of NASA and European Space Agency missions. His own mission, as he explained in an interview with Time last year, is to create a visual legacy of over fifty years of inter-planetary exploration. By combining multiple frames taken with various exposures and color filters, Benson offers a sampling of how our seemingly indiscernible galaxy appears to the naked eye.
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