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Milky Way over Green Lake, in Horsham, Australia
The glow of a town and more-distant glow of the zodiacal light shine above an Australia lake. Even farther away is the arc of the Milky Way.
September 30, 2014
Young moon returns to the evening sky
Moon was rising and setting with the sun in the past few days. Now it's far enough from the sun's glare to be visible in the evening sky, shortly after sunset.
September 26, 2014
Mars MAVEN spacecraft’s first observations
MAVEN is the first spacecraft dedicated to exploring the tenuous upper atmosphere of Mars. It entered orbit around Mars on September 21, 2014.
September 24, 2014
Fires in the Amazon
Astronaut photo of rainforest being cleared for agriculture in Brazil.
September 24, 2014
Comet C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) on September 19
This beautiful comet may be visible with the eye alone around mid-October, but it'll remain much easier to detect using binoculars or a telescope.
September 21, 2014
Fogbow over Massachusetts
Because of the small size of water droplets in fog, a fogbow might have only very weak colors, or no color at all. Colorless fogbows are sometimes called white rainbows.
September 18, 2014
Polar mesospheric clouds over the Ukraine
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station, flying at 350 kilometers (220 miles) up, are ideally placed to observe elusive polar mesospheric clouds.
September 17, 2014
Hurricane Odile
Hurricane Odile tied Olivia (1967) as the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Baja California in the satellite era.
September 16, 2014
