Hubble image of spiral galaxy NGC 5468.

A day on the moon lasts about an earthly month, so dawn comes to each part of the moon only that often. In this view from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, you can see a crater’s central peak illuminated by sunlight, while the crater floor remains dark.

For those of you with telescopes, or telescopic lenses, here’s something to watch for on a moon just past 1st quarter.

A long bright meteor, too, and on the night of the elusive Unicorn meteor shower … but not a Unicorn meteor.

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite project will eventually place an initial 12,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit to provide worldwide internet access. This image is from the second batch of satellites launched November 11.

November aurora over Iceland.

Photographer Matt Burt captured the full Beaver Moon over Gunnison, Colorado, on November 11, 2019.

This ring around the moon is called a 22-degree halo by skywatchers. The mountain below is Pikes Peak, in Colorado, the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rockies.

The moon is big and bright nearly all night now. It’ll turn full on Tuesday, just as the North Taurid meteor shower reaches a peak. The moon is a problem for meteor-watching, but this owl … a bigger problem.

Bettina Berg captured this sweet image of a bird and the moon in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 6, 2019.

This composite – made of 7 images – will show you what the eye alone can’t see in the area of the sky in and around the constellation Orion.

A photo of mist above an Antarctic research station. Sunlight returned to this part of the world in August, after 4 months of continuous night. Now the station is getting ready for an influx of summer visitors.

This ghostly face, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on June 19, is actually a collision of 2 galaxies of about equal size, 704 million light-years from Earth.

Jim AndRobin Moore in Nitro, West Virginia, captured Jupiter as the sun was setting on Monday.

Saguaro cactus in the starlight, in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona.

Photo of star trails by an astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS).