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Big Dipper over Horseshoe Spring, Utah
The famous Big Dipper asterism, caught mirrored in Horseshoe Spring, one of many natural hot springs in Utah’s West Desert.
October 16, 2017
ISS over Puget Sound, Washington
Photographer John Nelson used NASA's SpotTheStation website to learn when the International Space Station would make a high pass in his sky. This image is the result.
October 14, 2017
Rainbow with anticrepuscular rays
Karl Diefenderfer must have been looking east at sunset on October 9, in order to photograph this rainbow with anticrepuscular rays, caught "as the remnants of hurricane Nate left southeastern Pennsylvania."
October 13, 2017
Juno sees Jupiter and 2 large moons
Jupiter and 2 of its largest moons – Io and Europa - captured by the Juno spacecraft as it performed its 8th flyby of the planet on September 1, 2017.
October 12, 2017
Red sprite over Oklahoma
Photographer Paul Smith said he thinks this may be the 1st documented capture of a red sprite over Oklahoma. They're large-scale electrical discharges - high above thunderstorm clouds - flickering in the night.
October 11, 2017
Fall colors in New Hampshire
"Fall colors are back," wrote photographer Manish Mamtani.
October 10, 2017
5 faint Draconid meteors
The naysayers were wrong. Some did catch some Draconid meteors this weekend, in the narrow window between sunset and moonrise.
October 9, 2017
Close encounters of the planet kind
Brilliant Venus and faint Mars swept close last week, in the east before sunup. Check out these awesome photos!
October 7, 2017
Harvest moon mirage
When you look over an ocean at a distorted sun or moon, the reason is most often that the low slanting rays of the object are being highly refracted between air layers of different temperatures.
October 6, 2017
Anticrepuscular rays at Georgia moonrise
Scott Kuhn captured anticrepuscular rays as the moon was rising over Fort Mountain in northern Georgia.
October 5, 2017
