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Wishing on a shooting star
Grant Miller captured this self-portrait during 2016's Perseid meteor shower. 2017's shower has interference from the moon, but you still might see a bright meteor!
August 9, 2017
See it! Full moon and partial eclipse
We in the Americas missed the partial lunar eclipse. Or maybe you were clouded out ... or slept through it? See it after all, in these awesome photos from EarthSky friends from around the world.
August 7, 2017
Lighthouse lightning
Jerry James took this shot in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He calls it "Patience is Key."
August 6, 2017
Preparing for the solar eclipse
As the total solar eclipse nears, photographers like Gowrishankar Lakshminarayanan are testing their equipment and settings.
August 5, 2017
Rainbow over Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
We usually see photos from photographer Josh Blash from the Atlantic coast, up around New Hampshire. This photo of Juárez - in the Chihuahuan Desert - was a delightful surprise.
August 4, 2017
Morning tranquility
Yuri Beletsky captured this scene from the Australian east coast, with Venus, the constellation Orion, and the Pleiades and Hyades star clusters shining in all their glory.
August 3, 2017
Anticrepuscular rays with rainbow
These 2 sky phenomena - anticrepuscular rays and rainbows - can appear separately. In this case, they appear together, both originating from the same source, the sun, on the opposite side of the sky.
August 2, 2017
Storm moving in
Niccole Kowalski said she witnessed this rainbow on Saturday, forming over the Superstition Mountains in Arizona, while a storm was moving in.
July 31, 2017
Sun halo with 2 contrail shadows
The sun is casting shadows of an aircraft contrail downwards onto thin cirrus haze layers below. Higher above, ice crystals in cirrus clouds have created a 22-degree halo around the sun.
July 31, 2017
This is not a mystical tree …
It’s an aerial view of glacial river patterns in Iceland. Manish Mamtani used a drone to capture this image.
July 30, 2017
