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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
Rainbow and road
Photo by Mike Taylor, who is based in Maine. He calls this photo Innuendo.
July 17, 2017
Watch for Venus and Aldebaran
You can't miss the star right next to brilliant planet Venus, in the east before dawn now. It's Aldebaran, the Eye of the Bull in the constellation Taurus.
July 16, 2017
Big sunspot at sunset
Neeti Kamthekar captured this photo of the lone sunspot that's been making its way across the sun in recent days. In reality, the sun's own spin is causing its apparent movement.
July 14, 2017
Dawn at Saturn
Although the Cassini spacecraft - now on the verge of running out of fuel - is in its final year in orbit around Saturn, it's still producing heart-stirring images.
July 12, 2017
