Stunning footage has captured the cosmic journey of Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster, which blasted off into space aboard the Falcon Heavy rocket earlier this month.
The incredible spectacle saw a dummy called Starman strapped behind the wheel of the car leave the planet on the back of the world's most powerful rocket, the MailOnline reports.
They are both now on their way to Mars orbit and then the asteroid belt.
Millions of people worldwide have been following the fate of the craft, including one professional photographer who trained his camera on the night sky to capture footage of it from 500,000 miles away.
Rogelio Bernal Andreo is a Spanish-American astrophotographer best known for his images of deep sky objects.
He used Nasa's online ephemeris calculator to work out where Starman was in the night sky.
Capturing the breathtaking images from his home in San Francisco was no easy task, however.
When he initially attempted to spot the Tesla on February 9, when it was around 500,000 miles from Earth, he failed.
Writing on his website, Andreo said: "Once footage of the car and Starman started to arrive and people wondered if it could be observed from Earth, there was just one thing in my mind: to find the answer to that question and if yes, to try take a picture - better yet, a video - of it.
"Once I had my rig all ready to roll, I pointed my dual telescope setup to the area where the Roadster was supposed to be, and focused.
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