The light from the cosmos! It felt unreal to see and photograph our cosmic neighbour — the Andromeda Galaxy — along with its two tiny satellite dwarf galaxies, Messier 32 and Messier 110. In the same session, the Pinwheel Galaxy and Orion Nebula made their way into my frames — a night where everything in the universe seemed to align. We were deep inside the Pir Panjal Himalayas, on a wildlife expedition chasing one of Kashmir’s most elusive mammals. But under a Bortle 1 sky, so pure and silent t