Summer lightning over a harbor in Tällberg, Sweden.

Photographer Lee Capps captured this week's morning moon from North Carolina. Thanks, Lee!

A satellite image from January 2019 shows launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral, Florida. From there - on July 16, 1969 - a Saturn V rocket carrying the crew of Apollo 11 launched humanity's historic voyage to the moon.

Contributed by our friend Swami Krishnananda, a photo essay of a walk up a hillside near Shimla, India, closer and closer to a cactus blossom, with thoughts on impermanence.

Photographer Tanvi Javkar spotted Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds spread across the sky on June 28, 2019, in Nova Scotia.

Satellite images confirm that this rare lava lake is a continuous feature at the top of Mount Michael, in the South Atlantic's South Sandwich Islands. The temperature of the molten lava is some 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,800 degrees Fahrenheit).

This series of photos from Eliot Herman shows the progress of the moon's shadow during the July 2, 2019, total solar eclipse in Chile.

Some called it the "astronomer's eclipse" because it passed near major observatories in Chile. Check out these beautiful images of the July 2, 2019, total solar eclipse.

EarthSky friend Eliot Herman traveled to Chile to capture the July 2, 2019, total solar eclipse in all its glory.

For the northern part of Earth, the season for seeing noctilucent clouds - clouds that shine at night - typically begins in June. This June has been particularly fine for seeing these electric-blue clouds. Photos and video here.