Milky Way Over the Major Sentinel

From the photographer: “Monjes de la Pacana or Pacana Monks are located in La Pacana a Miocene age super volcano/caldera which happens to be in a big uninhabited silicic ignimbrite volcanic field area relatively close to the Chilean-Argentinian border. These gigantic stone pillars were formed after the giant Atana ignimbrite, the fifth larger eruption known, an intense volcanic activity between 3.8 and 4.2 million years ago and after additional million years of erosion, the pillars took the shape we can appreciate now. In the image, we can see the Centinela mayor or Major Sentinel pointing directly to the NGC 5139 Omega Centauri globular star cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud and Canopus to the right, Crux and NGC 3372 Carina Nebula above to the right, an intense green and reddish airglow lighting the horizon, and last, but not least, the Milky Way arc all over the scene just touching the pillar edge.”