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Airplane crosses sun’s face
While preparing on Sunday to watch today's transit - an event Mercury crosses the face of our sun - Helio C. Vital caught an airplane doing the same.
May 9, 2016
Long meteor over Arkansas
Meteor showers happen when Earth passes through a stream of icy debris left behind by a comet. The famous Comet Halley spawned last week's Eta Aquarids.
May 7, 2016
First light over Norway’s island Senja
First light of the morning and a perfectly still lake, just north of the Arctic Circle.
May 6, 2016
Clouds over White Lake Channel
On May 2, 2016, Walter E. Elliot took this shot of clouds rolling over the channel that connects Michigan's White Lake to Lake Michigan. Doesn't it look like an oil painting?
May 5, 2016
A mix of dark dust and bright stars
Vast dust clouds stretch across a rich starfield in near the northern boundary of the southern constellation Corona Australis, the Southern Crown.
May 4, 2016
Milky Way over Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica
"Since three years ago, we have planned to shoot this photo. We went to the zone repeatedly but every time we got nothing ... until now." - Sergio Vindas
May 3, 2016
Criss-crossed Saturn rings?
Saturn's rings appear to be intersecting in an impossible way. But - in this new Cassini spacecraft image - we're really just seeing a play of light and shadow.
May 1, 2016
Hailstorm over Cambridgeshire, UK
Andy Howard said, "We don't often see such contrast in the sky, but this we had to stop and snap on the iPhone."
May 1, 2016
Late April sun pillar
Jesse Jackson saw this sun pillar near Tucson, Arizona. "Talk about a ray of sunshine," he said.
April 30, 2016
Omega Centauri, a ghost galaxy, from a ghost town
Under dark night skies near Big Bend National Park in South Texas, our galaxy's largest globular star cluster.
April 27, 2016
