The pilot of a commercial airliner used a Sony a7S camera to film the magnificent splendor of our galaxy during a TransAtlantic flight from Europe to South America.

The video shows the lit up cities on the Earth beneath and the shining Milky Way above. From time to time, other planes are spotted whizzing by and shooting stars soar through the night sky.

The project, called “Beyond the Clouds“, is a timelapse of a 8000km trip on board a Boeing 777 passenger plane that departed from Zurich, Switzerland at 9:50PM BST and touched down in Sao Paulo, Brazil at 4:35AM BST.

“Flying at night, while the world beneath us is at sleep, is a pretty common thing as a long haul pilot,” pilot Sales Wick wrote on his blog.

“The...