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Moonrise in Yosemite National Park

View Larger | Moonrise in Yosemite National Park courtesy of EarthSky Facebook friend Manish Mamtani. Visit Manish’s Facebook page to see many more beautiful images like this one! Manish Mamtani...

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Moon as April turned to May

View Larger | The moon on the night of April 30, 2013 via our friend in France, VegaStar Carpentier. Here’s the moon, at the phase in which it appeared on the night of April 30-May 1, 2013. If you...

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World’s smallest living vertebrate

Living vertebrates — animals that have a backbone or spinal column — range in size from this tiny new species of frog, as small as 7 millimeters, to the blue whale, measuring 25.8 meters. Photo via...

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Gaggle of Canada Goose goslings?

View full sizeImage posted this week to EarthSky Facebook by our friend Ryong Lee. An adult Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) has a brownish-gray body, a black head and neck and white patches on the...

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Noctilucent cloud season is here!

View Larger | Noctilucent clouds over the Solway Firth thanks to EarthSky Facebook friend Adrian Strand. Our friend Adrian Strand was able to capture these beautiful noctilucent clouds – also called...

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Together ‘neath the supermoon

Mother and sons watch the 2013 Supermoon rise through the cloud cover at Tempe Town Lake. Photo credit: Kathleen Kingma This amazing photograph was captured on June 23, 2013 by EarthSky Facebook friend...

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Supermoon alongside Lincoln Memorial

The supermoon rising next to the Lincoln Memorial on June 23, 2013 in Washington, DC. Credit: Jim Knapp Photography The largest full moon of the year took place a day or two ago. This full moon was not...

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Joshua tree highlighted by supermoon

“The 2013 supermoon behind a joshua tree in southern California.” Photo credit: Patriica Knight Photography Patrica said: When I ventured out into Joshua Tree National Park to capture the full moon, I...

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Secret sunrise

See full size | This morning’s sunrise over Currituck, North Carolina. Credit: GregDisel Landscape Photography Greg said: I biked 10 minutes and then walked a 1/4 mile into the marsh to wait for this...

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World’s largest urban bat colony

World’s largest urban bat colony captured by our Facebook friend Pam Rice Phillips in Austin, TX. The Congress Avenue bridge in downtown Austin is the spring and summer home to some 750,000 bats with...

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Video: Washing your hair in space

According to Wikibedia, Karen Nyberg is the 50th woman in space. She’s currently serving as part of Expedition 36 aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In keeping with what we hope is a growing...

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Spectacular sunset over Mono Lake

Photo by Facebook friend Chris Tinker at Mono Lake, California Mono Lake is a saline lake the edge of the arid Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. It’s among the oldest lakes in...

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Starburst ring

See Full Size | Historically, Messier 94 – also known as NGC 4736 – was considered to have two different rings, however, astronomers have recently discovered that this may be more of an optical...

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A liquid lake on Saturn’s moon

Ligeia Mare, a lake on Saturn’s moon Titan, in a false-color image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Image v8a NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell Ligeia Mare is one of the many bodies of liquid in and around...

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An aurora, and the start of meteor season

An aurora and a meteor from Jeremy Friebel. More of his photos can be seen on Facebook at ExtremeWeatherPhotographer. Jeremy Friebel captured this meteor streaking past against a background of the...

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Earth from Saturn in 2006

This image is known as the Pale Blue Orb. It’s Earth, as seen through the rings of Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft, orbiting Saturn, captured it in 2006. Image via NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. This...

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Perseid meteor flying over Texas

Perseid meteor flying over Texas captured by Facebook friend Gary Snow. Thanks Gary!. Assuming you have a dark sky, you can start looking out for the popular Perseid meteor shower starting now – a week...

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Aurora at Marshall Point Lighthouse

Aurora and starry sky as seen from Marshall Point Lighthouse in Maine. Image credit: Taylor Photography Our friend Mike Taylor had the following to say about capturing this image: The awe-inspiring...

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Milky Way over Ligurian Sea

Milky Way over Ligurian Sea, as seen from Italy. Image via Maranatha_IT Photography EarthSky Facebook friend Maranatha_IT Photography captured this beautiful image of what we in the Northern Hemisphere...

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Midnight meteor over Boston

Perseid meteor captured flying high over Boston on August 7, 2013 by EarthSky Facebook friend Ed Grzyb. Although the 2013 Perseid meteor shower won’t be at its best until the nights of August 11-12...

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