EarthSky friend Patricia Evans said she read about the giant ice circle slowly spinning in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine ... and had to go see it.

Have you been watching the 2 brightest planets - Venus and Jupiter- inch closer in the east before sunup? Closest the morning of January 22. Venus is brighter! Photos from the EarthSky community here.

A heliocentric - or sun-centered - view of eclipses in 2019 from astronomer Guy Ottewell.

This 2019 total eclipse of the moon was the last one until May 2021. The EarthSky community captured it. A selection of images here. See more at EarthSky Community Photos!

Seaside, Oregon, at sunset.

The 2 brightest planets are easy to spot in the east before dawn now. Plus they're getting closer! The Venus-Jupiter conjunction will come on the morning of January 22.

Although people sometimes call them "upside-down rainbows," they're made not by rain, but by by ice crystals in the upper atmosphere.

Chilika Lake - on the east coast of India - is the second-largest coastal lagoon in the world. It's a large wintering ground for migratory birds.

Abhijit Patil created this long-exposure image at Rocky Gorge in New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest on January 5, 2019. "It's a tricky spot to shoot during the night," he wrote, "but the night views are spectacular and worth the risk."

Because Earth's orbit isn't precisely circular, the size of the sun in our sky changes slightly throughout the year. This image shows that small variation in sun size.