A time-exposure image has captured the setting stars in a moonlit night in form of colorful star trails above inversion layer in the southern outskirts of the Atacama desert, Chile. The trails are notably distorted at the horizon as seen in this telephoto view. This mirage is similar to other common mirage of astronomical object such as the moon or the sun when they are near the horizon; an optical phenomenon in which light rays are refracted and bent in the atmosphere to produce distorted or multiple images of the object.