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Waning moon in sunrise colors
Jüri Voit captured this photo Saturday morning - January 21, 2017 - in Kuusalu, Estonia.
January 22, 2017
Moon, Jupiter, Jupiter’s moons
Jupiter and its Galilean moons with Earth's moon at the last quarter phase, captured Thursday morning.
January 19, 2017
Solar system montage
A very cool composite of real images from an excellent astrophotographer.
January 19, 2017
Speed of light
Manuel Dietrich titled this photo Speed of Light. He captured it in the Black Forest of southwest Germany.
January 18, 2017
Waning Venus
Between now and late March, when Venus flies between us and the sun - thereby entering our morning sky - those with telescopes will see Venus wane, like a little waning moon.
January 15, 2017
Into the storm
Manish Mamtani was coming back from Yellowstone National Park in late 2016, when he encountered this storm on the road ahead.
January 14, 2017
See it! First full moon of 2017
In the Northern Hemisphere, the January full moon is sometimes known as the Wolf Moon. Howl at these awesome photos of the January's full moon from EarthSky friends around the world.
January 13, 2017
Alaska’s Bogoslof volcano, from space
It started erupting explosively and unexpectedly in late 2016. This view is from January 3, from NASA's Terra satellite. As of yesterday, the eruptions were declining, but may start again!
January 11, 2017
Winter rainbow over Niagara Falls
Tony Lee said temps were in the 20s (around -7 Celsius) when he captured this shot.
January 9, 2017
