Two beautiful fogbow photos taken in September

Astronaut teams practice living and working on the moon in the pool at at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab.

Safety guidelines for taking photos of the sun.

STEVE, and the northern lights. Does it get any better than this?

The close conjunction of Mercury with Venus in last night’s evening sky was near the sun and exceedingly tough to spot, even with optical aid. Still, EarthSky friend Helio Vital managed to capture it!

The solar system’s most photogenic planet, captured by most earthlings’ favorite space telescope.

If you’re looking for Venus now – the brightest planet – you won’t find it with the eye alone. But it’s possible to catch the planet in September 2019, near the sunset, with a telescope.

This image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope shows star death. It’s a planetary nebula in the direction of the constellation Gemini the Twins.

Amazon rainforest fires … the view from space.

A sign that summer is ending … Jörgen Andersson in Sweden captured cranes migrating southward on August 21.

“Nieves penitentes” is Spanish for “penitent-shaped snows.” These ice structures form in extreme conditions of high elevation, high solar radiation, low humidity, and dry winds.

Perseid meteor shower 2019 over Scandinavia’s 1st dark sky park, the island of Møn in Denmark.

The August 9-12 weather event in Australia was one of the longest cold stretches and greatest snowfall totals so far in this century, according to climate and atmospheric scientists.

From 1963 until its closure in 1975, the Carnarvon Space Tracking Station supported a range of scientific and exploratory missions as the United States raced to put a man on the moon.

It’s a very special group of images of this year’s Perseid meteor shower, many taken in bright moonlight. Thanks to all who contributed photos!

This sort of halo is called a 22 degree halo by skywatchers. You can see them around both the sun and moon. They’re caused by ice crystals in the air. They bear that name because the radius of the ring is always approximately 22 degrees.

These birds live in open woodland on the Indian subcontinent. They forage in small groups, feeding on nectar and small insects.