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Thunderstorm and the Milky Way
"I have waited years to capture a severe thunderstorm and the Milky Way in the same frame. Sunday night I accomplished my goal in Arizona."
August 17, 2018
See it! Moon sweeps past Venus
Have you been watching Venus and the young moon? Enjoy these photos from the EarthSky community around the world. Thank you to all who shared images!
August 15, 2018
Favorite Perseid meteor shower photos
2018 was an exceptional year for August's tried and true Perseid meteor shower.
August 14, 2018
Potomac River sunrise
An early August morning in Mt. Vernon, Virginia. Photographer Greg Diesel Walck wrote, "Glorious beams this morning at sunrise over the Potomac River."
August 11, 2018
Fire cloud over California, from space
A pyrocumulus cloud - sometimes called a fire cloud - forms when intense heat from wildfires causes air to rise. Californians have been seeing these towering clouds this July and August.
August 10, 2018
Sky-wide rays
Familiar crepuscular rays and less well known anticrepuscular rays are really one and the same.
August 9, 2018
Evening’s 2 arcs
Draw a line between the 4 bright planets up after sunset now, and you'll see they make an arc across the sky. In this photo, Michael Seeley in Florida contrasted the arc of planets with that of the Milky Way.
August 8, 2018
Speck from an asteroid
Viewed under a microscope, it resembles a human hair. But this is actually an extremely precious speck of dust – a tiny sample from the Itokawa asteroid, brought back to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa mission.
August 7, 2018
Reaching to the stars
Photographer Miska Saarikko titled this image Reaching to the Stars.
July 31, 2018
Every point is a galaxy
At first glance, it's just a square filled with tiny grains of static. But incredible as it is to imagine, every single point of light in this image is actually a distant galaxy, as observed by ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory.
July 29, 2018
