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See any Perseids?
Bright supermoon washed out all but the brightest meteors in this year's Perseid meteor shower. But we do have some nice pics, thanks to you ...
August 13, 2014
Best photos: It was a super supermoon!
The August 10, 2014 supermoon was the closest, brightest supermoon of 2014. Enjoy these photos from friends in the EarthSky community.
August 11, 2014
Waxing toward a supermoon, with rainbow
Kimmie Randall caught this photo of Thursday night's gibbous moon, waxing toward the supermoon ... with a portion of a rainbow. Beautiful!
August 9, 2014
Rosetta’s rendezvous with a comet
The Rosetta spacecraft has succeessfully completed its historic approach to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and is now traveling in tandem with the comet.
August 7, 2014
Curiosity rover tracks on Mars, August 4, 2014
Today is the second anniversary of the Mars rover Curiosity's landing inside the Martian Gale Crater on August 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT).
August 6, 2014
Summer storm over Alberta, Canada
On the day Shannon McDowell sent in this photo, Alberta was under a severe thunderstorm threat.
August 3, 2014
Spacecraft surfs in and out of Venus atmosphere
ESA's Venus Express spacecraft spent a month surfing in and out of the atmosphere of Venus, coming so close that atmospheric drag caused the craft to slow down.
July 31, 2014
Super-close views of Mercury
The MESSENGER spacecraft is now dropping closer to Mercury, and long anticipated, super-close views of the planet are beginning to come in.
July 29, 2014
