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See it! Moon and Venus close

The waning crescent moon swept past Venus Monday and Tuesday mornings. The EarthSky community caught photos!

December 3, 2018

Iridescent cloud with crepuscular rays

You'll see a true iridescent cloud when the sun is nearby. The colors will appear randomly distributed. Here's one with beams of light - crepuscular rays, or sunrays - appearing to shoot from it.

Deborah Byrd

December 3, 2018

Golden virga at sunset

Peter Lowenstein captured thin curtains of golden virga on one of the first sunsets of rainy season in Mutare, Zimbabwe.

Peter Lowenstein

December 1, 2018

Pink lunar halo

Photographer Eliot Herman got lucky and captured a pink lunar halo when he was out snapping pictures of Venus before dawn on November 26 in Tucson, Arizona.

Eleanor Imster

November 30, 2018

Meet ESA’s SpaceBok robot

The walking and hopping SpaceBok robot is being tested now in ESA's Mars Yard, in the Netherlands. Someday these little robots might help explore the moon, or Mars.

Deborah Byrd

November 29, 2018

Astronomers glimpse Comet Wirtanen’s telltale spin

This comet is due to pass closest to our sun and Earth in December 2018. It's already the brightest comet in the night sky, visible to astronomers with telescopes and binoculars. A new image shows the comet's rotation!

Eddie Irizarry

November 27, 2018

Lone Wanaka Tree in New Zealand

There's a legend about this tree. It's said it started out as a fence post about 80 years ago, then sprouted into the tree you see here, beloved of photographers.

Deborah Byrd

November 25, 2018

A 1st glimpse of the Magellanic Clouds

Gilbert Vancell caught these 2 dwarf galaxies - satellites to our Milky Way - from Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park in Indonesia, home to active volcanoes.

Deborah Byrd

November 24, 2018