--- title: Let This Video of Stunning Night Skies Put You in a Trance description: A photographer documented the stars over California, Arizona, Hawaii and Kenya canonical: https://time.com/4163391/video-stunning-night-skies/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-29T19:06:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:09.821Z og:title: Let This Video of Stunning Night Skies Put You in a Trance og:description: A photographer documented the stars over California, Arizona, Hawaii and Kenya og:url: https://time.com/4163391/video-stunning-night-skies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1692c4385c0f493c/69887713e20a878ebea8ed6c/night-sky.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: night-sky og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Let This Video of Stunning Night Skies Put You in a Trance twitter:description: A photographer documented the stars over California, Arizona, Hawaii and Kenya twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1692c4385c0f493c/69887713e20a878ebea8ed6c/night-sky.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Let This Video of Stunning Night Skies Put You in a Trance by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Dec 29, 2015 7:06 PM UTC  Sriram Murali by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Dec 29, 2015 7:06 PM UTC If the coming new year has you stressed about resolutions, goals and fears, it might be nice to remember how small we humans are in the scope of the universe. This video might help. Sriram Murali, a photographer and Google analyst, created this video using some 5,000 photographs he took of skies over California, Arizona, Hawaii and Kenya from September to November of this year, documenting beautiful sunsets, passing clouds, foaming waves and shooting stars in a strangely soothing time-lapse. Why not add a trip to a dark-sky location with views like these to your 2016 bucket list? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4163391/video-stunning-night-skies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4163391/video-stunning-night-skies/"},"headline":"Let This Video of Stunning Night Skies Put You in a Trance","datePublished":"2015-12-29T19:06:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:09.821Z","description":"A photographer documented the stars over California, Arizona, Hawaii and Kenya","url":"https://time.com/4163391/video-stunning-night-skies/","keywords":["Newsfeed","World"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1692c4385c0f493c/69887713e20a878ebea8ed6c/night-sky.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1692c4385c0f493c/69887713e20a878ebea8ed6c/night-sky.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"night-sky","caption":"","creditText":"Sriram Murali","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4163391/video-stunning-night-skies/","name":"Let This Video of Stunning Night Skies Put You in a Trance"}}]}] ```