Oh, what the heck. After posting the video earlier showing the Earth rotating around the sky, I might as well show you the original video, since it really is so beautiful. This time lapse shows the sky spinning over the Very Large Telescope observatory in Chile, one of the finest observatories in one of the darkest sites on the planet.
[embed width="610"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpeM3fxJoQ[/embed]
[Set the resolution to 720p to see it properly unenpixelated.] A couple of things I want to point out: at 1:10 into the video, you see the Milky Way rising majestically over the mountains, and you can see a faint, whitish glow stretching diagonally across the field of view, at an angle to the galaxy. That's called the zodiacal light, and is caused by the reflection of sunlight by dust in the plane of our solar system. It's probably due to eons of collisions grinding asteroids into dust; ...
