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See it! Crepuscular rays

By Eleanor Imster and Deborah Byrd in Today's Image | 2 weeks ago

Those beams of light shooting out from the horizon or down from the clouds are called crepuscular rays, or sunrays. Beautiful, mysterious and very noticeable.

Reaching to the stars

By Deborah Byrd in Today's Image | 3 weeks ago

Photographer Miska Saarikko titled this image Reaching to the Stars.

Every point is a galaxy

By Eleanor Imster in Space | Today's Image | 3 weeks ago

At first glance, it’s just a square filled with tiny grains of static. But incredible as it is to imagine, every single point of light in this image is actually a distant galaxy, as observed by ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory.

Beautiful photos! Full moon eclipse and Mars

By Deborah Byrd in Astronomy Essentials | Today's Image | 3 weeks ago

Earth flew between the sun and Mars this week, so, during yesterday’s total lunar eclipse, the moon and Mars were close. Photos from the EarthSky community here.

Night-shining clouds over Estonia

By Eleanor Imster in Today's Image | 3 weeks ago

Kairo Kiitsak captured an impressive display of noctilucent, or night-shining, clouds, in Simuna, Estonia on July 26, 2018. Noctilucent clouds are seen at high latitudes only from about mid-May to August. Wondrous, if you can catch them!

See it! Mars is very bright now

By Deborah Byrd in Astronomy Essentials | Today's Image | 3 weeks ago

It’s the brightest Mars has been in our sky since since 2003. Photos from the EarthSky community here.

Tennessee double rainbow

By Eleanor Imster in Today's Image | 3 weeks ago

Becky Gillum captured this double rainbow in Cherokee Lake, Tennessee. She said, “With all the storms we’ve been having, it was only a matter of time until a rainbow appeared.”