Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured an image of the asteroid last night.

Photos from the EarthSky community of the bright planet Mars, at its best. Earth passed between Mars and the sun - bringing the planet to a once-in-two-years opposition - on October 13, 2020.

A fireball is an especially bright meteor from space. It can start out icy and burn up entirely in our atmosphere, or rocky ... in which case a meteorite sometimes falls to Earth's surface. This bright fireball blazed over northeastern Mexico on Tuesday, October 6, 2020.

Gorgeous, detailed image of the Carina Nebula, a star nursery approximately 8,500 light-years away, as observed with the Gemini South telescope in Chile.

The brightest planet Venus has been blazing in the east before sunrise for some months. In late September and early October, the bright star Regulus - Heart of the Lion in Leo - swept past it.

Every year at this time, people in the Northern Hemisphere witness the legendary Harvest Moon. This year, the Harvest Moon was near fiery Mars! Photos here from the EarthSky Community.

Did you miss the moon's sweep in the last few nights past our solar system's biggest planets, Jupiter and Saturn? Here are a few photos - from the EarthSky Community - of that glorious night sky scene.

A beautiful new image of Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope - captured in August 2020 - shows the planet's icy moon Europa as well as several famous storms in Jupiter's atmosphere.

Satellite image shows 5 tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean at the same time for only 2nd time in history.

Video tour - via satellite - of the Amazon River meandering through the Amazon rainforest in South America.