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Moon halo over Pikes Peak
This ring around the moon is called a 22-degree halo by skywatchers. The mountain below is Pikes Peak, in Colorado, the highest summit of the southern Front Range of the Rockies.
November 13, 2019
See it! Monday’s transit of Mercury
Click here for awesome photos from members of the EarthSky community of the November 11, 2019, transit of Mercury. It'll be the last Mercury transit until 2032. A huge thank you to all who submitted to EarthSky Community Photos!
November 12, 2019
Stunning view inside a young moon crater
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned some amazing high-resolution photos of the surface of the moon, including these ones of steep cliffs and impact melt inside a young crater called Giordano Bruno.
November 11, 2019
If you think the moon is an impediment to meteor-watching
The moon is big and bright nearly all night now. It'll turn full on Tuesday, just as the North Taurid meteor shower reaches a peak. The moon is a problem for meteor-watching, but this owl ... a bigger problem.
November 10, 2019
Sweet bird
Bettina Berg captured this sweet image of a bird and the moon in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 6, 2019.
November 9, 2019
A deep look at Orion
This composite - made of 7 images - will show you what the eye alone can't see in the area of the sky in and around the constellation Orion.
November 8, 2019
TESS planet-hunter shows you the southern sky
Mosaic of the southern sky constructed from 208 images by NASA’s TESS spacecraft, taken during the mission’s first year of science operations.
November 6, 2019
Mist over an Antarctic research station
A photo of mist above an Antarctic research station. Sunlight returned to this part of the world in August, after 4 months of continuous night. Now the station is getting ready for an influx of summer visitors.
November 1, 2019
Hubble brings you a spooky cosmic face
This ghostly face, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on June 19, is actually a collision of 2 galaxies of about equal size, 704 million light-years from Earth.
October 30, 2019
Jupiter at sunset
Jim AndRobin Moore in Nitro, West Virginia, captured Jupiter as the sun was setting on Monday.
October 30, 2019
