This image is a time exposure of the sky during the Quadrantid Meteor Shower. The cistern structure lies above the buried Persian city of Qumis, known to the ancient Greeks as Hecatompylos. There are actually only two meteors in this picture, they go against the light trails of the stars, the brightest of which is actually not a star, but the planet Saturn. Time exposures are when the film is left to capture an image for an extended amount of time, and that's why the stars appear to move.
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