Birdlike cloud over Zimbabwe

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Seeing recognizable patterns in unrelated objects is called pareidolia. People love it. Here's a sunset cloud in the shape of a bird, over Africa.

Peter Lowenstein

January 15, 2016

EarthSky News with Deborah Byrd

All the news you can fit into outer space LIVE on Slooh.com Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 UTC). Or watch right here!

Deborah Byrd

January 14, 2016

How to see Comet Catalina

Hints on how to perceive the comet's gradual motion across the sky as it sweeps closest - but not too close - around January 17.

Eddie Irizarry

January 14, 2016

Ancient gas cloud relic of first stars?

Astronomers see this cloud just 1.8 billion years after the Big Bang. It has a tiny percentage of heavy elements, those forged in subsequent generations of stars.

Eleanor Imster

January 14, 2016

Rare aurora near Earth’s North Pole

Auroras are common at high northern or southern latitudes, but very high latitude auroras are rare. A photographer calls this photo a "once-in-a-lifetime" catch.

Deborah Byrd

January 14, 2016

Galaxy quakes in our Milky Way

Astronomers say they can use "galactoseismology" - the study of ripples in a galaxy's disk - to map the interior structure of galaxies and learn about dark matter.

Deborah Byrd

Eleanor Imster

January 13, 2016

Four stunning close-ups of Ceres

Dawn spacecraft now in its lowest planned orbit above dwarf planet Ceres. These late December images are from just 240 miles (385 km) above Ceres' surface.

Deborah Byrd

January 13, 2016