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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
Venus and the Pleiades before dawn
Venus - the brightest planet - is in the east before dawn now. Chirag Upreti caught Venus on July 22 over Acadia National Park in Maine. The dipper-shaped cluster above it is the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters.
July 27, 2017
Moon and Mercury over Rome last night
The moon and Mercury - innermost planet of our solar system - had a great meeting these past hours. Here, Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project presents some shots capturing this exclusive show, hanging over the skyline of Rome.
July 26, 2017
ISS photobombs a lightning storm
See it scooting along the top of this image, taken last week by Susan Gies Jensen? She also made a video from her still images. See it here, and learn to spot the station.
July 24, 2017
Hubble sees Phobos orbiting Mars
This image and video aren't artists' illustrations. They're from a real time-lapse sequence of images - acquired by the Hubble Space Telescope - of the tiny moon Phobos orbiting Mars. Cool!
July 22, 2017
See it! Moon sweeps past Venus
People around the world watched this week as the waning crescent moon swept near the very bright planet Venus, and fainter star Aldebaran, in the east before dawn.
July 20, 2017
The Day the Earth Smiled
A mosaic of people on Earth waving at Saturn on July 19, 2013, the day Earth smiled. NASA called it "a global moment of cosmic self-awareness."
July 19, 2017
