See the best deep-sky photos of May 2025 here

Enjoy this gallery of deep-sky photos for May 2025 from our EarthSky community. If you have a great photo to share, send it in, too. We love to see them!

See the best Milky Way photos of 2025 here

See 10 of the best Milky Way photos from all over the world. This year, the entries include the 1st Milky Way image from space by astronaut Don Pettit.

See the Chinese rocket that surprised aurora watchers

On May 16, 2025, aurora watchers spotted something unusual in the sky. The mysterious streak turned out to be a Chinese rocket. More here.

See the best deep-sky photos of April 2025 here

Enjoy this gallery of deep-sky photos for April 2025 from our EarthSky community. If you have a great photo to share, send it in, too. We love to see them!

It’s Milky Way season again! Enjoy beautiful pics here

Enjoy these stunning photos of our home galaxy, in celebration of the return of Milky Way season. Have your own image to share? Submit it to us!

Watch a sungrazing comet’s final death leap

The sungrazing comet appears as a relatively bright and slow-moving dot, heading toward the sun, then suddenly fading away.

The South Pole begins its 6 months of darkness

On the March equinox, researchers at the South Pole saw the sunset and entered into 6 months of darkness. See more images of the sunset here.

See the best deep-sky photos of March 2025 here

Enjoy this gallery of deep-sky photos for March 2025 from our EarthSky community. If you have a great photo to share, send it in, too. We love to see them!

Partial solar eclipse pics that you’ll love. See them here!

See some beautiful partial solar eclipse pics from March 29, 2025, thanks to our global EarthSky community! Did you take a pic? Submit it to us!

Outstanding Einstein ring revealed in new image

This elliptical galaxy acts as a gravitational lens, warping the light from a distant spiral galaxy and allowing us to see it in the form of an Einstein ring.

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