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Kelly Kizer Whitt

See the top 10 stories of 2024 from EarthSky

Here are the top 10 stories of 2024. We had a busy year with asteroids hitting Earth's atmosphere, dinosaur tracks, cicadas and more!

EarthSky’s top photos from 2024: See them here!

See the top photos from 2024 submitted by our EarthSky community. We had an amazing year for skywatchers, from auroras to comets to a total solar eclipse.

Spend Christmas with Comet A3 through the Virtual Telescope

Spend Christmas with Comet A3 in this live feed from the Virtual Telescope Project! Plus see more fantastic images here from community members around the world.

Cyclone Chido devastated the island of Mayotte

Cyclone Chido devastated the French island of Mayotte on December 14, 2024, before hitting Mozambique in Africa. See images here.

Sunlike stars hurl superflares about once per 100 years

Scientists studied thousands of sunlike stars and determined that they hurl superflares - massive solar flares - about once every 100 years.

Are Geminid meteors striking the moon? See videos

Last week, Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii captured videos of bright flashes on the moon. Could they be Geminid meteors striking the moon? See the videos here.

Meet Pisces the Fish, 1st constellation of the zodiac

Pisces the Fish is a zodiac constellation that is high in the sky on December evenings. Look for it and its asterism, the Circlet of Pisces.

See the best northern lights photos of 2024

The blog Capture the Atlas announced its 2024 Northern Lights Photographer of the Year contest. See 10 of the best northern lights photos here.

Magnitude 7 earthquake off California coast

A magnitude 7 earthquake occurred about 50 miles (80 km) offshore of northern California on December 5, 2024. The associated tsunami warning was then canceled.

Small asteroid hit Earth’s atmosphere yesterday

A small asteroid harmlessly hit Earth's atmosphere over Siberia in Russia yesterday. More info with a map and images of the fireball here.