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When can you see a daytime moon?
I saw the moon in a blue sky. Why? How can this happen? I thought the moon was visible only at night!
January 29, 2013
Video: Lunar halo seen over Israel on January 27, 2013
Time-sequence video showing a lunar halo form. The moon with its halo appears to drift as Earth turns beneath the sky. From our friends at Bareket Observatory.
January 28, 2013
Video: Record-setting asteroid flyby in February, 2013
2012 DA14 is about half the size of an American football field. It'll fly closer to Earth than some artificial satellites on February 15, 2013.
January 28, 2013
Ride along with ISS, from night to day to night again
Beautiful astronaut video from aboard the International Space Station, showing day and night on Earth, as ISS passes between the two twice.
January 28, 2013
Death Valley Dreamlapse during peak of 2012 Geminid meteor shower
Gorgeous video made at the peak of the 2012 Geminid meteor shower over Death Valley. Bonus points for identifying the visible planets.
January 27, 2013
Photos from friends: First full moon of 2013
Beautiful photos of January 2013 full moon, as captured by EarthSky Facebook friends. Thank you all.
January 27, 2013
Deep Space Industries joins the asteroid gold rush
Deep Space is the second company in less than a year to say it will join the rush to the rich fields of water and precious metals in near-Earth asteroids.
January 22, 2013
Awesome photos of January 21 Jupiter-moon conjunction, and more
The best moon and Jupiter photos from late last year, plus the wonderful sight of these two brilliant worlds on January 21, 2013. Wow!
January 22, 2013
How Titan’s weather has changed its surface
Members of Cassini spacecraft radar team have made the first quantitative estimate of how much the weather on Titan has modified its surface.
January 19, 2013
Space images of the week
A compilation of the best space photos and images from earthsky.org for the week of January 14-18.
January 18, 2013
