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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
Holding 2016’s smallest full moon
The farthest full moon, and smallest full moon, on April 22-23, 2016.
April 26, 2016
Clouds, moonglow, 2 planets
Mars and Saturn, plus the bright star Antares and other stars in the constellation Scorpius. The bright one is Mars!
April 24, 2016
Ferret and stars in Montana
Montana's rarest native animal, a black-footed ferret, surfaces on a starry night.
April 20, 2016
See it! Moon sweeps past Jupiter
The moon swept past Jupiter over the past few nights. Check out these photos from the EarthSky community.
April 19, 2016
