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2021 Perseid photos from this year's favorite summertime meteor shower. Thanks to all who are contributing at EarthSky Community Photos!
Grant Miller captured this self-portrait during 2016's Perseid meteor shower. 2017's shower has interference from the moon, but you still might see a bright meteor!
You'll see the colors of a rainbow in this meteor ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star.
Stargazing in national parks ... yes! Increasing light pollution in the United States makes national parks some of the last dark refuges.
Astrophotographer Makrem Larnaout journeyed to the desert of Tunisia to capture the night sky as seen from a movie set for Star Wars. Enjoy his amazing images.
Star trails are long-exposure photographs of stars taken as Earth turns, resulting in streaks of light across the sky. Learn how to photograph star trails here.
Earth in the cosmic shooting gallery: A dramatic animation showing some of the many thousands of asteroids orbiting the sun near Earth.
Scientists found a metal-rich star catapulted from a supernova explosion. It's racing out of the galaxy at nearly 2 million miles an hour.
The stars are accessible to everyone, but where can you get the most from the night sky? Here are 10 great dark-sky places - mostly in the U.S. but also in Australia, New Zealand and Chile - for skywatching and stargazing.
This 3rd episode of an ongoing stargazing video series - called Chasing Darkness - is from Yellowknife, Canada. It features the magnificent northern lights.
The debate surrounding the Humanity Star. Is it possible to see? Can you see it from your location? How to try to see it, if it's visible, here.
Although they're called shooting stars, meteors aren't star-related. They're really comet dust. Nature photographer John Ashley created this composite image of the Lyrid meteor shower peak April 22.
Milky Way on a pedestal, by a photographer who loves it ...
If you haven't caught Comet PANSTARRS yet, try in early April 2013! PANSTARRS photos and viewing guide here.
On July 14, an amateur group in Russia launched a small satellite called Mayak. They said it would become the "brightest shooting star" in the sky. Why'd they do it? Here's how to look for it.
"The Draconids passed by, and although it wasn't spectacular, I was able to catch a few shooting stars, before everything drowned in clouds."
A shooting star and a "new" star, or nova. The shooting star is space dust. And the nova is an explosion on an old star. Check out this photo by Colin Legg of Australia.
Dream Chaser Tenacity, an uncrewed spaceplane from Sierra Space, arrived in Florida on May 20, 2024, to prepare for its 1st cargo delivery mission to the ISS.
Scientists analyzing the meteorites left behind by the asteroid that hit Germany said that they are a rare type known as an aubrite.