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Wildfire smoke blankets North American skies
Wildfire smoke from Canada and the western United States has blanketed North America this week. See photos and video.
July 23, 2021
Mares’ tails over the Pacific Northwest
Mares' tails - aka cirrus uncinus clouds - are found high above Earth's surface, where the air is very cold. They might mean rain is on the way.
July 21, 2021
DNA origami used to recreate Van Gogh’s Starry Night
An example of DNA origami. It's one of the world's smallest reproductions - about the size of a dime - of Vincent van Gogh's famous painting Starry Night.
July 9, 2021
Pacific Northwest hit with exceptional heat
The Pacific Northwest experienced a dramatic and unprecedented heat wave in late June, 2021. Many cities reported all-time-record highs.
June 29, 2021
Heart Nebula, long exposure, from Iraq
Eyad Khailany in Erbil, Iraq, captured an amazing photo of the Heart Nebula, IC 1805, between clouds, over the course of a week.
June 25, 2021
Solstice sunset from Penang, Malaysia
What a beauty! This EarthSky community member used a telescope to capture the solstice sunset from Malaysia on June 21, 2021.
June 24, 2021
Analemma of the moon, from Hong Kong
This EarthSky community member in Hong Kong this lunar analemma, a figure-8 shape in the sky, created by capturing the moon's image each day at the same time.
June 23, 2021
Analemma shows the sun’s path over a year
An analemma is a figure-8 curve showing the position of the sun at a chosen time of day (often, noon) over a year. Here's one on the side of a house.
June 22, 2021
Stark reality of California drought from space
This image is from June 2021. It shows barren hillsides and dry trees in a national forest, during the California drought. Click in for a comparison image from 2020.
June 21, 2021
Photos of the moon, Mars, and the Beehive
Photographers on opposite sides of Earth captured images of the moon and the Beehive star cluster as they paired up in mid-June 2021.
June 16, 2021
