These birds live in open woodland on the Indian subcontinent. They forage in small groups, feeding on nectar and small insects.

This new Hubble Space Telescope portrait of Jupiter reveals a smaller-than-usual Great Red Spot and an intense color palette in Jupiter's swirling clouds. NASA said, "The colors, and their changes, provide important clues to ongoing processes in Jupiter’s atmosphere."

Crystal Kolb captured these 3 butterflies along a pathway behind her house in Bedford, Pennsylvania, this past Saturday morning.

Here's a reconstructed "perspective view" of the tallest mountain on Ceres, which in turn is the largest world in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Earthly astronomers call the mountain Ahuna Mons.

Between the usual primary and secondary rainbows, you can see a 3rd bow, caused by sunlight reflecting off the water.

When you see it with your unaided eye, Omega Centauri looks like a fuzzy, faint star. But it is, in fact, a collection of 10 million stars.

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.