The Milky Way is coming back into view for another observing season. Australia has a wonderful vantage point for it!

Uluru - also known as Ayers Rock - in Northern Territory, Australia, on April 19, 2019.

The moon passed Jupiter (and Saturn) this week.

Who saw Lyrid meteors this week? Chuck Mason captured this image on April 20. He said, "Lucky enough to have caught a Lyrid Meteor over the Dallas Divide, Ridgway, Colorado."

Yosemite Valley in California is home to most of the park's famous waterfalls. This photographer caught the valley at dusk.

More photos of the magnificent solitary sunspot - AR2738 - that's made its way across the sun's face over the past couple of weeks. Thanks to all in the EarthSky community who contributed photos!

Mercury and Venus came so close in the morning sky this month that they fitted into a single binocular field. But from Earth's northerly latitudes, Mercury was hard to see! Photos here.

An early morning fogbow over the desert in northern New Mexico.

Rita Raina captured all the stars in the Winter Circle, as the moon swept through it. She said, "It wasn't easy getting them all in the frame ... but it's done!

There are 110 Messier objects. They are some of the sky's most beautiful nebulae, star clusters, galaxies, from a list originally published by Charles Messier in 1774. During a Messier Marathon, stargazers with telescopes try to find as many in one night as they can.