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Black dog, rising moon, San Juan Islands
This black dog's name is Smokey. He belongs to James Younger, who captured this photo April 19, 2017 while camping at the San Juan Islands in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
April 26, 2017
Raining stars
Although they're called shooting stars, meteors aren't star-related. They're really comet dust. Nature photographer John Ashley created this composite image of the Lyrid meteor shower peak April 22.
April 25, 2017
How our Milky Way looks from space
Composite of 2 spiral galaxies - offered in celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 27th birthday today - shows how our Milky Way galaxy might look if we were outside it.
April 24, 2017
See it! Meteors, moon, Venus photos
The Lyrid meteor shower didn't produced as many meteors as hoped, but we some lovely photos. And the moon and Venus were awesome Sunday morning!
April 23, 2017
Earth and moon between Saturn’s rings
Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn obtained this new image April 12. The craft was 870 million miles (1.4 billion km) from Earth.
April 21, 2017
Photos of close asteroid 2014 JO25
Large asteroid 2014 JO25 safely passed Earth on April 19, 2017 at some 1,098,733 miles (1,768,239 km) or about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. Images from the EarthSky community here.
April 20, 2017
Lyrid meteor shower has begun
The annual Lyrid meteor shower is active each year from about April 16 to 25.
April 17, 2017
California superbloom from space
Thanks to years of drought followed by above-average rainfall, California is enjoying a fantastic wildflower superbloom in 2017. See before-and-after space images here.
April 13, 2017
Sun pillar over England
A sun pillar, visible earlier this month before and up until dawn, from the Northumberland coast in northeast England.
April 12, 2017
