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October 27, 2026

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2026 (53)

Oct 27 Noctilucent Clouds over Sweden
Oct 22 The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435
Oct 20 An Anticrepuscular Rainbow Fan
Oct 8 The Saturn System Smörgåsbord
Oct 4 Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey
Sep 25 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
Sep 22 Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun
Sep 20 Analemma over the Callanish Stones
Sep 15 A Daytime Eclipse: Moon Occults Venus
Sep 12 Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun
Sep 2 Solar Eclipses and Culture
Aug 29 Eclipse Pair
Aug 26 JWST Images The Lion's Head Nebula
Aug 24 Comet 220P in Outburst
Aug 19 The Case of the Mysterious Maybe Meteor Video
Aug 18 Perseids from Perseus
Aug 17 A Golden Corona Eclipse
Aug 13 Total Solar Eclipse Over Spain
Aug 9 Contemplating the Sun
Aug 6 New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability
Aug 5 Spokes on Saturn's B Ring
Jul 30 Red Sun through Wildfire Smoke
Jul 19 Flying Saucer Crash Lands in Utah Desert
Jul 18 Shadow and Rainbow
Jul 17 The Dust Trail of Comet Tempel 2
Jul 6 Dueling Bands over the Atacama Desert
Jun 28 AR 4478: Giant Sunspot Group
Jun 25 Anticrepuscular Rays over Sicily
Jun 24 SDO Observes a Coronal Mass Ejection Video
Jun 22 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
Jun 15 Triple Shockwave from Sun Crossing Rocket
Jun 14 10 Days of Venus and Jupiter
Jun 12 Venus and Jupiter: Conjunction from Avebury
May 24 A Martian Eclipse: Phobos Crosses the Sun Video
May 11 Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano Video
May 10 Comet R3 PanSTARRS and Orion
Apr 27 Comet R3 PanSTARRS Behind Satellite Trails
Apr 25 The Persistence of Sunlight
Apr 20 Comet R3 PanSTARRS over a Himalayan Valley
Apr 14 The Long Wispy Tail of Comet R3 (PanSTARRS)
Apr 12 Comet R3 (PanSTARRS) Brightens
Apr 9 Destruction of Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) Video
Apr 4 Hello World
Mar 23 Light Pillars and Orion over Mohe
Mar 20 Spring Equinox at Teide Observatory
Mar 6 The Astrosphere of HD 61005
Feb 25 The Egg Nebula from the Hubble Telescope
Feb 21 Twilight with Moon and Planets
Feb 11 A Year of Sunspots
Feb 8 Active Sunspot Region 4366 Crosses the Sun
Jan 13 A Solar Eruption from SDO Video
Jan 10 Jupiter with the Great Red Spot
Jan 9 Ice Halos by Moonlight and Sunlight

2025 (77)

Dec 28 NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Dec 26 3I/ATLAS Flyby
Dec 22 Sunset Solstice over Stonehenge
Dec 21 Solstice on a Spinning Earth Video
Dec 20 A Solstice Sun Tattoo
Dec 19 Long Shadows of the Montes Caucasus
Dec 7 The Sun and Its Missing Colors
Dec 1 3I/ATLAS: Tails of an Interstellar Comet
Nov 29 Moon Games
Nov 21 3I/ATLAS: A View from Planet Earth
Nov 20 Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka
Nov 17 Comet Lemmon's Wandering Tail
Nov 12 A Super Lunar Corona
Nov 3 A Double Helix Lunar Eclipse
Oct 25 Webb's Rho Ophiuchi
Oct 20 Finding Comet Lemmon
Oct 19 Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko Creates Its Tails
Oct 16 Young Suns of NGC 7129
Oct 13 Lemmon Tree
Oct 6 The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Lemmon
Sep 30 Comet Lemmon Brightens
Sep 29 Two Camera Comets in One Sky
Sep 27 A Rocket in the Sun
Sep 26 A SWAN, an ATLAS, and Mars
Sep 25 Saturn Opposite the Sun
Sep 23 NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars
Sep 22 Equinox at Saturn
Sep 21 Equinox Sunset
Sep 18 Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)
Sep 16 New Comet SWAN25B over Mexico
Sep 15 Earth During a Powerful Solar Storm Video
Aug 30 A Two Percent Moon
Aug 26 A Leaky Solar Prominence Video
Aug 11 Closest Ever Images Near the Sun Video
Aug 10 Zodiacal Road
Aug 9 Interstellar Interloper 3I/ATLAS from Hubble
Aug 5 NGC 6072: A Complex Planetary Nebula from Webb
Jul 30 Coronal Loops on the Sun
Jul 26 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
Jul 17 3I/ATLAS
Jul 13 Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula
Jul 12 Clouds and the Golden Moon
Jul 7 Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Jun 21 Two Worlds, Two Analemmas
Jun 15 Two Worlds, One Sun
May 31 Afterimage Sunset
May 21 International Space Station Crosses the Sun
Apr 29 Saturn's Rings Appear to Disappear
Apr 24 NGC 6164: A Dragon's Egg
Apr 18 Comet C/2025 F2 SWAN
Apr 15 Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb
Apr 1 A Double Sunrise from a Partial Eclipse Video
Mar 31 Parker: The Solar System from Near the Sun Video
Mar 30 A Partial Solar Eclipse over Iceland
Mar 20 The Solar Eclipse Analemma Project
Mar 19 Blue Ghost's Diamond Ring
Mar 16 Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun
Mar 15 Tololo Totality
Mar 14 Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow
Feb 25 M41: The Little Beehive Star Cluster
Feb 15 Parhelia at Abisko
Feb 5 Comet G3 ATLAS Setting over a Chilean Hill Video
Feb 4 Anticrepuscular Rays: A Rainbow Fan over Spain
Feb 2 Comet G3 ATLAS Disintegrates
Feb 1 Nacreous Clouds over Sweden
Jan 28 Comet G3 ATLAS over Uruguay
Jan 26 The Many Tails of Comet G3 ATLAS
Jan 21 Comet ATLAS over Brasília
Jan 20 Comet ATLAS Rounds the Sun
Jan 18 Full Moon, Full Mars
Jan 13 Comet ATLAS Before Sunrise
Jan 11 An Evening Sky Full of Planets
Jan 7 A New Year's Aurora and SAR Arc
Jan 4 Welcome to Perihelion
Jan 3 Eclipse Pair
Jan 2 Solar Analemma 2024
Jan 1 Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System

2024 (78)

Dec 30 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
Dec 23 Christmas Tree Aurora
Dec 22 The Local Fluff
Dec 21 A Year in Sunsets
Dec 4 Driveway Analemma Video
Dec 3 Ice Clouds over a Red Planet
Nov 9 Neptune at Night
Nov 6 Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas over the Dolomites
Oct 15 Animation: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Tails Prediction Video
Oct 13 Aurora Timelapse Over Italian Alps Video
Oct 12 Northern Lights, West Virginia
Oct 10 Five Bright Comets from SOHO
Oct 8 Annular Eclipse over Patagonia
Oct 7 The Long Tails Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
Oct 3 Eclipse at Sunrise
Sep 30 Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over Mexico
Sep 28 Rocket Eclipse at Sunset
Sep 25 Comet A3 Through an Australian Sunrise
Sep 23 Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Approaches
Sep 22 Chicagohenge: Equinox in an Aligned City
Sep 21 Sunrise Shadows in the Sky
Sep 6 Ringed Ice Giant Neptune
Sep 2 A Triangular Prominence Hovers Over the Sun
Sep 1 The Moon Dressed Like Saturn
Aug 18 A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO Video
Aug 4 Gaia: Here Comes the Sun Video
Aug 3 Glory and Fog Bow
Aug 1 Comet Olbers over Kunetice Castle
Jul 28 Sun Dance Video
Jul 19 Anticrepuscular Rays at the Planet Festival
Jul 13 Solar System Family Portrait
Jul 12 Jones-Emberson 1
Jul 11 Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
Jul 8 Exoplanet Zoo: Other Stars
Jul 7 Iridescent Clouds over Sweden
Jun 29 A Solstice Moon
Jun 28 Comet 13P/Olbers
Jun 15 Prominences and Filaments on the Active Sun
Jun 12 Aurora over Karkonosze Mountains
Jun 10 Sh2-132: The Lion Nebula
May 28 Solar X Flare as Famous Active Region Returns Video
May 26 A Solar Filament Erupts
May 24 M78 from the Euclid Space Telescope
May 20 Aurora Dome Sky
May 15 AR 3664 at the Sun's Edge
May 13 AR 3664 on a Setting Sun
May 12 Red Aurora over Poland
May 11 AR 3664: Giant Sunspot Group
May 6 A Total Solar Eclipse from Sliver to Ring Video
Apr 27 All Sky Moon Shadow
Apr 17 Total Eclipse and Comets
Apr 14 How a Total Solar Eclipse Ended Video
Apr 13 Palm Tree Partial Eclipse
Apr 12 Total Totality
Apr 11 Eclipse in Seven
Apr 10 Planets Around a Total Eclipse
Apr 8 The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Pons-Brooks
Apr 7 A Total Solar Eclipse over Wyoming
Apr 5 The Solar Corona Unwrapped
Apr 2 Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona
Mar 31 Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World
Mar 28 Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
Mar 26 Comet Pons-Brooks' Ion Tail
Mar 19 A Picturesque Equinox Sunset
Mar 18 Comet Pons-Brooks' Swirling Coma
Mar 14 Moon Pi and Mountain Shadow
Mar 10 A Total Eclipse at the End of the World
Mar 4 Light Pillars Over Inner Mongolia
Mar 3 A Total Solar Eclipse Close-Up in Real Time Video
Feb 28 Shades of Night
Feb 19 Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe Video
Feb 12 HFG1 & Abell 6: Planetary Nebulae
Feb 11 Rocket Plume Shadow Points to the Moon
Jan 26 Epsilon Tauri: Star with Planet
Jan 14 Dragon Aurora over Iceland
Jan 13 Circling the Sun
Jan 8 The Phases of Venus
Jan 4 Zeta Oph: Runaway Star

2023 (74)

Dec 24 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Dec 22 183 Days in the Sun
Dec 20 Ice Halos over Bavaria
Dec 11 Solar Minimum versus Solar Maximum Video
Dec 3 Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano Video
Nov 19 Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
Nov 12 Gibbous Moon beyond Swedish Mountain
Nov 6 Red Aurora over Italy
Nov 3 Jupiter by Moonlight
Nov 1 Annular Solar Eclipse over Utah
Oct 27 Encke and the Tadpoles
Oct 25 Gone in 60 Seconds: A Green Flash Sunset Video
Oct 19 A Sunrise at Sunset Point
Oct 16 Eclipse Rings
Oct 15 An Eclipse Tree
Oct 14 Circular Sun Halo
Oct 12 Mu Cephei
Oct 9 A Distorted Sunrise Eclipse
Oct 8 Plane, Clouds, Moon, Spots, Sun
Oct 5 Ring of Fire over Monument Valley
Oct 1 A Desert Eclipse
Sep 24 A Ring of Fire Sunrise Solar Eclipse Video
Sep 23 Afternoon Analemma
Sep 20 Methane Discovered on Distant Exoplanet
Sep 17 Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse
Sep 10 An Annular Solar Eclipse over New Mexico
Sep 9 Comet Nishimura Grows
Aug 30 Full Moons of August
Aug 26 Crescents of Venus
Aug 25 A Season of Saturn
Aug 23 The Meteor and the Galaxy
Aug 21 Introducing Comet Nishimura
Aug 19 Ringed Ice Giant Neptune
Aug 18 Northern Pluto
Aug 15 A Triply Glowing Night Sky over Iceland
Aug 12 Ghirigori – Star Scribbles
Aug 4 Moonrays of August
Aug 1 Monster Solar Prominence
Jul 30 Spiral Aurora over Icelandic Divide
Jul 29 Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun
Jul 14 Comet C/2023 E1 ATLAS near Perihelion
Jul 13 Webb's Rho Ophiuchi
Jul 11 Sunspots on an Active Sun
Jul 2 Milky Way and Aurora over Antarctica
Jun 26 The Belt of Venus over Mount Everest
Jun 21 Three Sun Paths
Jun 11 The Sun and Its Missing Colors
Jun 6 Star Eats Planet Video
May 30 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
May 27 Crescent Neptune and Triton
May 17 Sunspot with Light Bridge
May 16 Total Eclipse: The Big Corona
May 7 The Helix Nebula from CFHT
Apr 25 Northern Lights over Southern Europe
Apr 21 Solar Eclipse from Western Australia
Apr 19 Auroral Storm over Lapland
Apr 18 Map of Total Solar Eclipse Path in 2024 April
Apr 15 When Z is for Mars
Mar 28 A Multiple Green Flash Sunset
Mar 27 Aurora Over Arctic Henge
Mar 16 Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
Mar 15 Jupiter and Venus Converge over Germany
Mar 13 Rainbow Tree
Mar 4 10 Days of Venus and Jupiter
Feb 28 Crescent Moon Beyond Greek Temple
Feb 27 Zodiacal Ray with Venus and Jupiter
Feb 24 Jones-Emberson 1
Feb 22 Our Increasingly Active Sun
Feb 21 Comet ZTF over Yosemite Falls
Feb 8 Stellar Wind-Shaped Nebula RCW 58
Feb 7 A Comet and Two Dippers
Jan 14 Perihelion Sun 2023
Jan 9 Tails of Comet ZTF
Jan 6 Moon O'Clock 2022

2022 (69)

Dec 31 Moon over Makemake
Dec 26 NGC 6164: Dragon's Egg Nebula and Halo
Dec 21 Sun Halo at Sixty-three Degrees North
Dec 15 Full Moon, Full Mars
Dec 3 Stereo Mars near Opposition
Nov 27 Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey
Nov 13 Flying Saucer Crash Lands in Utah Desert
Nov 6 Dark Ball in Inverted Starfield
Nov 2 A Partial Eclipse of an Active Sun Video
Oct 27 Sunset, Moonset, Taj Mahal
Oct 25 Jupiter Rotates as Moons Orbit Video
Oct 22 NGC 1499: The California Nebula
Oct 10 A Double Lunar Analemma over Turkey
Oct 9 Auroras over Northern Canada
Oct 8 Two Comets in Southern Skies
Oct 7 In Ganymede's Shadow
Sep 24 September Sunrise Shadows
Sep 23 Ringed Ice Giant Neptune
Sep 18 Analemma over the Callanish Stones
Sep 13 A Long Snaking Filament on the Sun
Sep 9 Interstellar Voyager
Sep 3 Sun and Moon and ISS
Aug 20 Stardust and Comet Tails
Aug 19 Saturn: 1993 – 2022
Aug 16 A Meteor Wind over Tunisia
Aug 2 A Moon Dressed Like Saturn
Jul 25 Find the New Moon
Jul 2 Solargraphic Analemmas
Jun 30 Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)
Jun 29 Solar System Family Portrait
Jun 28 Mercury from Passing BepiColombo
Jun 24 Filaprom on the Western Limb
Jun 21 Analemma over Taipei
Jun 17 Good Morning Planets from Chile
May 31 Rocket Transits Rippling Sun
May 30 Red Crepuscular Rays from an Eclipse
May 22 A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun
May 9 A Martian Eclipse: Phobos Crosses the Sun Video
May 7 Firefall by Moonlight
May 2 Partial Solar Eclipse over Argentina
Apr 27 Moon Shadow on Jupiter
Apr 20 Planet Line over New York Bridge
Apr 11 A Space Station Crosses a Busy Sun
Apr 8 Hale-Bopp: The Great Comet of 1997
Apr 3 CMB Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
Apr 2 Nova Scotia Northern Lights
Apr 1 Leaning Tower, Active Sun
Mar 28 Gems of a Maldivean Night
Mar 22 A Whale of an Aurora over Swedish Forest
Mar 20 A Picturesque Equinox Sunset
Mar 6 Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun
Mar 2 Record Prominence Imaged by Solar Orbiter
Mar 1 Dueling Bands in the Night
Feb 24 Beautiful Albireo AB
Feb 16 Eiffel Tower Prominence on the Sun Video
Feb 14 In the Heart of the Heart Nebula
Feb 12 Aurora by Moonlight
Feb 9 Eta Car: 3D Model of the Most Dangerous Star Known Video
Feb 8 Aurora and Light Pillars over Norway
Feb 6 Blue Marble Earth
Feb 3 Embraced by Sunlight
Jan 30 A Solar Prominence from SOHO
Jan 25 Video: Comet Leonard over One Hour Video
Jan 22 The Full Moon and the Dancer
Jan 12 Comet Leonard Closeup from Australia
Jan 10 Comet Leonard's Tail Wag Video
Jan 6 The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star
Jan 5 A Year of Sunrises
Jan 2 Quadruple Lunar Halo Over Winter Road

2021 (51)

Dec 31 JWST on the Road to L2
Dec 28 Sun Halo over Sweden Video
Dec 27 Comet Leonard behind JWST Launch Plume
Dec 26 James Webb Space Telescope over Earth
Dec 21 Solstice Sun and Milky Way
Dec 19 Planetary Alignment over Italy
Dec 11 Postcard from the South Pole
Dec 10 Eclipse on a Polar Day
Dec 9 A Total Eclipse of the Sun
Dec 5 Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World
Dec 1 A Blue-Banded Blood Moon
Nov 28 A High Cliff on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Nov 23 The Sun in X-rays from NuSTAR
Nov 21 Introducing Comet Leonard
Nov 10 Video of a Green Flash Video
Nov 8 A Filament Leaps from the Sun Video
Oct 18 Earthshine Moon over Sicily
Oct 5 Sunrise at the South Pole
Sep 22 Equinox on a Spinning Earth Video
Sep 21 Sun Spot Hill
Sep 19 Rings and Seasons of Saturn
Sep 12 A Spiral Aurora over Iceland
Sep 11 Saturn at Night
Aug 26 A Blue Hour Full Moon
Jul 25 Crescent Neptune and Triton
Jul 14 GW200115: Simulation of a Black Hole Merging with a Neutron Star Video
Jul 12 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
Jul 11 Find the Moon
Jul 10 Mercury and the Da Vinci Glow
Jul 8 Perihelion to Aphelion
Jul 2 AR2835: Islands in the Photosphere
Jun 28 A Paper Moon Solar Eclipse
Jun 26 Pixels in the Sun
Jun 20 Sunrise Solstice over Stonehenge
Jun 18 Devil Horns from a Ring of Fire
Jun 12 Eclipse on the Water
Jun 11 Eclipse Flyby
Jun 10 Circular Sun Halo
Jun 6 A Distorted Sunrise Eclipse
Jun 3 Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
May 30 Aurora over Clouds
May 13 The Comet, the Whale, and the Hockey Stick
May 12 A Meteor and the Gegenschein
May 4 Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
Apr 25 Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula
Mar 19 Central Lagoon in Infrared
Feb 18 Swiss Alps, Martian Sky
Feb 17 Sun Pillar with Upper Tangent Arc
Feb 9 Flashes of the Crab Pulsar Video
Feb 7 Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster M53
Jan 7 Total Solar Eclipse 2020

2020 (66)

Dec 21 Solstice: Sunrises Around the Year
Dec 20 A Volcanic Great Conjunction
Dec 12 Saturn and Jupiter in Summer 2020
Nov 24 The Helix Nebula from CFHT
Nov 2 Half Sun with Prominence
Oct 16 Planetary Nebula Abell 78
Oct 3 Driving to the Sun
Sep 23 ISS Transits Mars
Sep 22 Equinox in the Sky
Sep 21 Omega Sunrise
Sep 17 Solar Cycle 25 Has Begun
Aug 30 NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars
Aug 23 The Helix Nebula from Blanco and Hubble
Aug 19 The Sun Rotating Video
Aug 18 TYC 8998-760-1: Multiple Planets around a Sun Like Star
Aug 14 NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula
Aug 12 The Shifting Tails of Comet NEOWISE
Aug 8 Crescent Saturn
Aug 5 Picture Rocks Sun Dagger Video
Aug 2 Two Worlds, One Sun
Jul 29 The Giants of Summer
Jul 22 The Structured Tails of Comet NEOWISE
Jul 20 Comet NEOWISE and Nebulae
Jul 14 Comet NEOWISE over Stonehenge
Jul 12 Comet CG Creates Its Dust Tail
Jul 10 Comet NEOWISE from the ISS
Jul 7 Comet NEOWISE over Lebanon
Jun 26 Eclipse under the Bamboo
Jun 25 Eclipse Street, Hong Kong
Jun 22 Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse
Jun 21 Moon Occults Venus
Jun 15 A Ring of Fire Sunrise Solar Eclipse Video
Jun 8 Atmospheric Ring of Venus
Jun 6 Comet PanSTARRs and the Galaxies
Jun 3 The Dance of Venus and Earth Video
May 30 Green Flashes: Sun, Moon, Venus, Mercury
May 29 Mercury Meets Crescent Venus
May 21 Phases of Venus
May 20 Moon, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Milky Way
May 9 Full Flower Moonrise
May 7 Analemma of the Moon
Apr 29 The Ion Tail of New Comet SWAN
Apr 28 The Kepler-90 Planetary System
Apr 10 Full Moon of Spring
Apr 4 Venus and the Sisters
Mar 22 Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano Video
Mar 18 Anticrepuscular Rays over Florida
Mar 16 A Moon Dressed Like Saturn
Mar 14 Moonrise and Mountain Shadow
Mar 9 Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Chile
Feb 27 Two Hemisphere Night Sky
Feb 26 NGTS-10b: Discovery of a Doomed Planet
Feb 14 The Pale Blue Dot
Feb 11 Launch of the Solar Orbiter
Feb 10 Solar Eclipse over the UAE
Feb 3 Solar Granules at Record High Resolution Video
Feb 2 Zeta Oph: Runaway Star
Jan 31 Goldilocks Zones and Stars
Jan 30 Two Clusters and a Comet
Jan 27 Comet CG Evaporates
Jan 22 The Hyades Star Cluster
Jan 21 Parker: Sounds of the Solar Wind Video
Jan 15 Iridescent Clouds over Sweden
Jan 13 A Desert Eclipse
Jan 9 Perihelion to Aphelion
Jan 5 A Starry Night of Iceland

2019 (53)

Dec 28 A Distorted Sunrise Eclipse
Dec 27 A Partial Solar Eclipse Sequence Reflected
Dec 25 An Annular Solar Eclipse over New Mexico
Dec 21 Solstice to Solstice Solargraph Timelapse
Dec 9 Looking Sideways from the Parker Solar Probe Video
Dec 3 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
Dec 2 Mercury Crosses a Quiet Sun Video
Nov 14 Mercury and the Quiet Sun
Nov 10 A Mercury Transit Sequence
Oct 28 The Space Station Crosses a Spotless Sun
Oct 21 A Mercury Transit Music Video from SDO Video
Oct 18 Interstellar Interloper 2I/Borisov
Oct 11 Planet Earth at Blue Hour
Sep 28 An Analemma of the Sun
Sep 23 Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice
Sep 20 Saturn at Night
Sep 17 Water Vapor Discovered on Distant Exoplanet
Sep 16 A Lunar Corona over Turin
Sep 11 IC 1805: The Heart Nebula
Sep 3 Unusual Signal Suggests Neutron Star Destroyed by Black Hole Video
Aug 31 Spitzer's Orion
Aug 24 Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
Aug 23 NGC 1499: The California Nebula
Aug 14 Saturn Behind the Moon
Jul 24 Zodiacal Road
Jul 15 The Space Station Crosses a Spotless Sun
Jul 14 Eagle Aurora over Norway
Jul 7 Crescent Saturn
Jul 6 8 Minute and 30 Second Eclipse
Jul 4 In the Shadow of the Moon
Jul 1 The Big Corona
Jun 27 The Longer Days
Jun 26 Noctilucent Clouds, Reflections, and Silhouettes
Jun 24 Anticrepuscular Rays Converge Opposite the Sun
Jun 21 Sunset Analemma
Jun 18 Strawberry Moon over the Temple of Poseidon
May 26 A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO Video
May 17 RS Puppis
Apr 21 Spiral Aurora over Icelandic Divide
Apr 13 Rigil Kentaurus and Sandqvist 169
Apr 10 Martian Moon Phobos Crosses the Sun Video
Mar 21 Star Trails and the Equinox Sunrise
Mar 6 A February without Sunspots
Mar 4 Celestial Alignment over Sicilian Shore
Feb 19 Comet Iwamoto Before Spiral Galaxy NGC 2903 Video
Feb 18 Dragon Aurora over Iceland
Feb 14 Solar System Family Portait
Feb 4 Henize 70: A Superbubble in the LMC
Jan 30 Wide Field View of Great American Eclipse
Jan 29 Ultima Thule from New Horizons
Jan 11 Partial Eclipse over Beijing
Jan 4 Ultima Thule Rotation Gif
Jan 3 Ultima and Thule

2018 (57)

Dec 29 New Horizons at Ultima Thule
Dec 16 Comet Wirtanen Passes by the Earth
Nov 20 The Unexpected Trajectory of Interstellar Asteroid 'Oumuamua Video
Nov 19 Gibbous Moon beyond Swedish Mountain
Nov 15 Comet 46P/Wirtanen
Nov 8 Mars in the Loop
Nov 4 Flying Saucer Crash Lands in Utah Desert
Oct 28 Ultraviolet Earth from an Observatory on the Moon
Oct 18 Cherenkov Telescope at Sunset
Oct 10 Sun Dance Video
Oct 5 The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star
Oct 4 Opportunity After the Storm
Oct 3 NGC 1898: Globular Cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Oct 2 Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey
Sep 26 The Sun's Spectrum with its Missing Colors
Sep 23 Equinox: Analemma over the Callanish Stones
Sep 18 Salt, Pepper, and Ice Video
Sep 16 A Solar Filament Erupts
Sep 14 Ice Halos at Yellowknife
Sep 12 Lunations Video
Sep 2 A Powerful Solar Flare Video
Aug 27 Total Solar Eclipse Shadow from a Balloon
Aug 20 Active Prominences on a Quiet Sun
Aug 16 Parker vs Perseid
Aug 15 Launch of the Parker Solar Probe
Aug 8 Animation: Perseid Meteor Shower Video
Jul 27 Mars Opposition
Jul 17 Moon and Venus over Cannon Beach
Jul 14 A Nibble on the Sun
Jul 9 Road to Mars
Jul 7 A Northern Summer's Night
Jul 5 Shadow Rise on the Inside Passage
Jun 24 Rocket Plume Shadow Points to the Moon
Jun 18 An Active Prominence on the Sun Video
Jun 12 Star Size Comparison 2 Video
Jun 6 A Sun Pillar over Norway
Jun 4 Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano Video
Jun 1 Mars Approach
May 30 The Case of the Backwards Orbiting Asteroid Video
May 27 Coronal Rain on the Sun Video
May 15 Kepler's House in Linz
May 3 Opposite the Setting Sun
Apr 9 The Sun Unleashed: Monster Filament in Ultraviolet Video
Mar 31 Twilight in a Western Sky
Mar 20 Chicagohenge: Equinox in an Aligned City
Feb 27 Dueling Bands in the Night
Feb 20 A Partial Solar Eclipse over Buenos Aires
Feb 15 Enceladus in Silhouette
Feb 14 In the Heart of the Heart Nebula
Feb 13 Car Orbiting Earth
Feb 12 Blue Comet Meets Blue Stars
Feb 11 A Partial Eclipse Over Manila Bay
Feb 9 Total Solar Lunar Eclipse
Feb 4 Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun
Jan 12 Blue Comet PanSTARRS
Jan 3 The Helix Nebula from CFHT
Jan 1 Sun Halo over Sweden Video

2017 (63)

Dec 21 Solstice Sun and Milky Way
Dec 18 The Kepler-90 Planetary System
Dec 11 Mercury Visualized from MESSENGER Video
Nov 23 Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka
Nov 13 Comet Machholz Approaches the Sun Video
Nov 3 A/2017 U1: An Interstellar Visitor
Oct 11 Star Cluster NGC 362 from Hubble
Oct 9 Unusual Mountain Ahuna Mons on Asteroid Ceres
Oct 7 Eclipsosaurus Rex
Sep 27 Layers of a Total Solar Eclipse
Sep 22 Solar Eclipse Solargraph
Sep 21 A September Morning Sky
Sep 20 The Big Corona
Sep 14 Flare Well AR2673
Sep 12 A Total Solar Eclipse Close-Up in Real Time Video
Sep 9 Calm Waters and Geomagnetic Storm
Sep 7 The Flash Spectrum of the Sun
Sep 6 The Climber and the Eclipse
Sep 2 Milky Way Voyager
Sep 1 A First Glimpse of the Great American Eclipse
Aug 30 Panoramic Eclipse Composite with Star Trails
Aug 28 A Fleeting Double Eclipse of the Sun
Aug 25 Diamond Ring in a Cloudy Sky
Aug 23 The Crown of the Sun
Aug 22 A Total Solar Eclipse over Wyoming
Aug 20 Time-Lapse: A Total Solar Eclipse Video
Aug 13 Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona
Aug 12 A Day in the Life of a (mostly) Human Sundial Video
Aug 11 A Total Solar Eclipse of Saros 145
Jul 30 A Total Eclipse at the End of the World
Jul 24 A Hybrid Solar Eclipse over Kenya
Jul 22 Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun
Jul 17 Moon Shadow versus Sun Reflection Video
Jul 11 Star Cluster Omega Centauri in HDR
Jul 5 Aphelion Sunrise
Jun 26 Artistic Impression: The Surface of TRAPPIST-1f
Jun 23 Solstice Conjunction over Budapest
Jun 19 Eclipse Across America: Path Prediction Video Video
Jun 17 Saturn near Opposition
Jun 16 Manhattan Moonrise
Jun 8 Firefall by Moonlight
Jun 1 Shadowrise and Sunset
May 22 A Zodiacal Sky over Horseshoe Bend
May 16 Gemini Stars Pollux and Castor
Apr 29 Arches of Spring
Apr 25 A Split Ion Tail for Comet Lovejoy E4
Apr 22 Between the Rings
Apr 13 Moons and Jupiter
Apr 11 Man, Dog, Sun
Apr 8 Zeta Oph: Runaway Star
Apr 4 Plane Contrail and Sun Halo
Mar 19 Equinox on a Spinning Earth Video
Mar 17 Phases of Venus
Mar 2 Annular Eclipse After Sunrise
Mar 1 A Solar Eclipse with a Beaded Ring of Fire
Feb 20 Almost Three Tails for Comet Encke
Feb 19 Black Sun and Inverted Starfield
Feb 12 Comet 45P Passes Near the Earth
Feb 11 Solar System Portrait
Jan 31 Where to See the American Eclipse
Jan 20 Layer Cake Sunset
Jan 17 Fly Me to the Moon
Jan 2 Comet 45P Returns

2016 (63)

Dec 22 An Airplane Glory
Dec 21 Traces of the Sun Video
Nov 26 East to West, Light and Shadow
Nov 6 Starburst Cluster in NGC 3603
Nov 2 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
Oct 26 Propeller Shadows on Saturn's Rings
Oct 23 Eagle Aurora over Norway
Oct 21 Full Moon in Mountain Shadow
Oct 8 Moon, Mercury, and Twilight Radio
Oct 1 Rosetta's Farewell
Sep 26 Gaia: Here Comes the Sun Video
Sep 22 Sunset at Edmontonhenge
Sep 19 50,000 Kilometers over the Sun
Sep 10 The Launch of OSIRIS-REx
Sep 7 Eclipse to Sunset
Sep 3 Reunion Island Eclipse
Aug 31 Annular Solar Eclipse over New Mexico
Aug 30 Aurora over Icelandic Fault
Aug 29 Young Suns of NGC 7129
Aug 25 Closest Star has Potentially Habitable Planet
Aug 22 Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma
Aug 21 Map of Total Solar Eclipse Path in 2017 August
Aug 16 Five Planets and the Moon over Australia
Aug 9 Mars at Closest Approach
Jul 31 A Huge Solar Filament Erupts Video
Jul 29 Blue Danube Analemma
Jul 17 Mercury on the Horizon
Jul 11 Aurorae on Jupiter
Jun 27 Anticrepuscular Rays over Colorado (II)
Jun 23 Solstice Dawn and Full Moonset
Jun 20 Sunrise Solstice over Stonehenge
Jun 9 Pluto at Night
May 21 Milky Way and Planets Near Opposition
May 20 3D Mercury Transit
May 13 ISS and Mercury Too
May 12 A Transit of Mercury
May 11 A Mercury Transit Music Video from SDO Video
May 8 Mercury's Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun
May 4 A Mercury Transit Sequence
May 1 Contemplating the Sun
Apr 30 Moon over Makemake
Apr 29 Fermi's Gamma-ray Moon
Apr 27 Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Star Cluster
Apr 15 Mercury and Crescent Moon Set
Apr 14 Full Venus and Crescent Moon Rise
Apr 12 Combined Solar Eclipse Corona from Earth and Space
Apr 9 A Green Flash of Spring
Apr 6 Auroras and the Magnetosphere of Jupiter
Mar 27 NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars
Mar 20 A Picturesque Equinox Sunset
Mar 18 The W in Cassiopeia
Mar 15 Cheering a Total Solar Eclipse Video
Mar 12 The Flash Spectrum of the Sun
Mar 11 Lunar Shadow Transit
Mar 10 Dark Sun over Ternate
Mar 6 A Solar Prominence Eruption from SDO Video
Feb 29 Julius Caesar and Leap Days
Feb 8 Light Pillars over Alaska
Jan 18 Proxima Centauri: The Closest Star
Jan 11 A Colorful Solar Corona over the Himalayas
Jan 10 Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection
Jan 3 A Starry Night of Iceland
Jan 2 Sky Lights in the New Year

2015 (59)

Dec 31 Solstice Sun at Lulworth Cove
Dec 25 To Scale: The Solar System Video
Dec 24 Star Colors and Pinyon Pine
Dec 15 Colorful Arcs over Buenos Aires
Dec 12 Comet Meets Moon and Morning Star
Dec 7 Comet Catalina Emerges
Nov 24 Aurora over Clouds
Nov 18 A Sudden Jet on Comet 67P
Nov 14 Wright Mons on Pluto
Nov 2 Comet ISON Being Destroyed by the Sun Video
Oct 27 Bright from the Heart Nebula
Oct 16 Night Hides the World
Oct 14 A Gegenschein Lunar Eclipse
Sep 23 Antarctic Analemma
Sep 19 A Prominence on the Sun
Sep 15 A Spiral Aurora over Iceland
Sep 13 A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas
Sep 12 ISS Double Transit
Sep 8 Distorted Green Flash Sunset over Italy
Aug 15 Perihelion Approaches
Jul 28 Rainbows and Rays over Bryce Canyon
Jul 27 Milky Way and Aurora over Antarctica
Jul 20 Comet PanSTARRS and a Crescent Moon
Jul 5 Zeta Oph: Runaway Star
Jul 4 Aurora Australis
Jun 29 Sunspot Group AR 2339 Crosses the Sun Video
Jun 28 All the Colors of the Sun
Jun 27 Stars of a Summer's Triangle
Jun 21 Rings and Seasons of Saturn
Jun 15 A Colorful Lunar Corona
Jun 7 NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula
Jun 5 Green Flash at Moonrise
May 29 Saturn at Opposition
May 17 NGC 2440: Pearl of a New White Dwarf
May 12 Two Worlds, One Sun
May 10 MyCn18: An Hourglass Planetary Nebula
Apr 30 Across the Sun
Apr 29 Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko in Crescent
Apr 26 Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula
Apr 20 Total Solar Eclipse over Svalbard
Apr 14 Through the Shadow of the Moon Video
Apr 3 Sun and Moon Halo
Mar 31 Corona from Svalbard
Mar 28 Diamond Rings and Baily's Beads
Mar 22 A Double Eclipse of the Sun
Mar 21 Northern Equinox Eclipse
Mar 18 Earth During a Total Eclipse of the Sun
Mar 15 A Total Eclipse at the End of the World
Mar 13 The Great Wall by Moonlight
Feb 21 45 Days in the Sun
Feb 20 An Evening Sky Conjunction
Feb 17 Fibrils Flower on the Sun
Feb 14 Solar System Portrait
Feb 10 An Extremely Long Filament on the Sun
Feb 3 Jets from Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Jan 25 A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence Video
Jan 21 The Complex Ion Tail of Comet Lovejoy
Jan 17 Comet Lovejoy's Tail
Jan 15 Venus and Mercury at Sunset

2014 (50)

Dec 29 The Sun in X-rays from NuSTAR
Dec 21 Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky
Nov 22 Solar Flare from a Sharper Sun
Oct 29 Iridescent Cloud Edge Over Colorado
Oct 27 Plane, Clouds, Moon, Spots, Sun
Oct 25 Sunspots and Solar Eclipse
Oct 24 AR 2192: Giant on the Sun
Oct 22 Sunspot Group AR 2192 Crackles Video
Oct 12 The Helix Nebula from Blanco and Hubble
Oct 11 Eclipse at Moonrise
Oct 7 From the Temple of the Sun to the Temple of the Moon
Oct 4 Mars, Antares, Moon and Saturn
Sep 21 Saturn at Equinox
Sep 17 Aurora over Maine
Sep 14 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
Sep 9 An Aurora Cupcake with a Milky Way Topping
Aug 24 Mercury's Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun
Aug 23 The Spectre of Veszprem
Jul 20 A Solar Filament Erupts
Jul 14 Auroras over Northern Canada
Jul 13 Planetary Nebula NGC 2818 from Hubble
Jul 11 Spotty Sunrise over Brisbane
Jul 9 Gliese 832c: The Closest Potentially Habitable Exoplanet
Jul 8 Iridescent Clouds over Thamserku
Jul 6 Manhattanhenge: A New York City Sunset
Jun 21 Lisbon Honey Moon
Jun 15 CMB Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
Jun 4 A Green Flash from the Sun
May 22 A Halo for NGC 6164
May 16 Opportunity's Mars Analemma
May 6 Orange Sun Sparking
May 1 Brisbane Sunset Moonset
Apr 30 A Partially Eclipsed Setting Sun
Apr 26 Southern Annular Eclipse
Apr 19 Earth-size Kepler-186f
Apr 11 Mars near Opposition
Apr 10 Mars, Ceres, Vesta
Apr 7 A Solar Eclipse from the Moon
Mar 31 2012 VP113: A New Furthest Known Orbit in the Solar System
Mar 20 Solargraphy Analemmas
Mar 19 Equinox on a Spinning Earth Video
Mar 12 The Sun Rotating Video
Mar 4 Sun and Prominence
Mar 3 Habitable Worlds
Mar 2 Martian Sunset
Feb 24 The Cloudy Cores of Active Galaxies Video
Feb 7 Night Hides the World
Jan 26 Sunspot Loops in Ultraviolet
Jan 14 The Gegenschein Over Chile
Jan 8 Sunspot at Sunset

2013 (62)

Dec 22 Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma
Dec 21 SDO's Multiwavelength Sun
Dec 18 Light Pillars over Finland
Dec 12 Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka
Dec 4 Comet Lovejoy through Mrby Castle Ruins
Nov 30 Surprising Comet ISON Video
Nov 29 Comet ISON Before and After
Nov 27 Comet ISON Rising Video
Nov 26 Cap Cloud over the Sierra Nevadas
Nov 23 Comet ISON from STEREO
Nov 16 Active Comet ISON
Nov 15 The Flash Spectrum of the Sun
Nov 13 In the Shadow of Saturn
Nov 11 An Active Sun During a Total Eclipse
Nov 9 Comet Lovejoy with M44
Nov 8 Solar Eclipse from Uganda
Nov 5 Kepler-78b: Earth-Sized Planet Discovered
Nov 4 Eclipse Over New York
Nov 3 A Rare Hybrid Solar Eclipse
Oct 28 The Great Comet of 1680 Over Rotterdam
Oct 27 Sungrazer
Oct 14 High Noon Analemma Over Azerbaijan
Oct 13 Hale-Bopp: The Great Comet of 1997
Oct 2 All the Colors of the Sun
Sep 28 Equinox Earth
Sep 24 The Local Fluff
Sep 22 Apollo's Analemma
Sep 10 Extrasolar Super-Earth Gliese 1214b Might Hold Water
Aug 29 Strawberry Sun
Aug 20 Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun
Aug 14 Moonset from Taiwan
Aug 2 Tropic of Cancer
Jul 21 The Seasons of Saturn
Jul 13 Sunspot at Sunset
Jul 10 Large Sunspots Now Crossing the Sun
Jun 28 A Super Moon's Halo
Jun 21 A Solstice Sunset Self Portrait
Jun 9 Flowing Auroras Over Norway Video
Jun 6 Star Size Comparisons Video
May 27 Bird Sun Dog
May 20 Blue Sun Bursting
May 16 Four X-class Flares
May 13 Partial Solar Eclipse with Airplane
May 11 Cape York Annular Eclipse
May 6 Tails of Comet Lemmon
May 4 Hungarian Spring Eclipse
May 1 Omega Centauri: The Brightest Globular Cluster
Apr 26 A Year on the Sun
Apr 14 Crescent Neptune and Triton
Apr 13 Sun with Solar Flare
Apr 9 NGC 3132: The Southern Ring Nebula
Apr 3 Comet PANSTARRS and the Andromeda Galaxy
Mar 27 A Horizon Rainbow in Paris
Mar 15 CME, Comet and Planet Earth
Mar 13 NGC 6751: The Glowing Eye Nebula
Mar 9 PanSTARRS over Parkes
Feb 26 Coronal Rain on the Sun Video
Feb 23 Chelyabinsk Meteor Flash
Feb 19 Mercury on the Horizon
Feb 14 Solar System Portrait
Feb 3 LL Ori and the Orion Nebula
Jan 15 A Solar Ballet Video

2012 (68)

Dec 31 Saturn's Rings from the Dark Side
Dec 29 Zeta Oph: Runaway Star
Dec 26 Makemake of the Outer Solar System
Dec 19 NGC 5189: An Unusually Complex Planetary Nebula
Dec 18 A Sun Pillar Over Sweden
Dec 10 Time-Lapse: A Total Solar Eclipse Video
Dec 3 A Quadruple Lunar Halo Over Spain
Dec 2 The Gegenschein Over Chile
Nov 28 Jupiter and Io
Nov 18 NGC 6357: Cathedral to Massive Stars
Nov 17 Like a Diamond in the Sky
Nov 15 Solar Eclipse over Queensland
Nov 13 A Solar Eclipse Quilt
Nov 11 Baily's Beads near Solar Eclipse Totality
Nov 2 The Black Hole in the Milky Way
Oct 30 Planetary Nebula PK 164 +31.1
Oct 27 A Halo for NGC 6164
Oct 18 A View from Next Door
Oct 15 Black Sun and Inverted Starfield
Oct 1 Introducing Comet ISON
Sep 23 Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice
Sep 22 Austrian Analemma
Sep 21 September's Aurora
Sep 20 Sunrise Analemma (with a little extra)
Sep 17 A Solar Filament Erupts
Sep 8 Cosmic Rays at Voyager 1
Aug 22 Clouds Near the Edge of Space
Aug 20 A Filament Across the Sun
Aug 9 Mars in the Loop
Aug 2 South Pole Star Trails
Jul 14 AR1520: Islands in the Photosphere
Jul 4 Sunspots and Silhouettes
Jun 28 In the Glare of Alpha Centauri
Jun 23 Northern Green Flash
Jun 20 Venus Transits the Midnight Sun
Jun 13 A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea
Jun 11 A Venus Transit Music Video from SDO Video
Jun 9 Venus at the Edge
Jun 8 When Venus Rises with the Sun
Jun 7 Venus Transit 2012
Jun 5 Live: Watching for Venus to Cross the Sun
Jun 3 A Picturesque Venus Transit
May 30 Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth
May 28 Contemplating the Sun
May 27 Mercury Spotting
May 22 A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas
May 20 A Partial Eclipse Over Manila Bay
May 19 Annular Solar Eclipse
May 11 Sun vs. Super Moon
May 5 Full Moonrise
Apr 26 Morning, Moon, and Mercury
Apr 17 Antares and Clouds
Apr 9 Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster M53
Apr 6 Venus and the Sisters
Apr 5 Zodiacal Light Panorama
Mar 19 Sunspot Group 1429 and the Distant Sun
Mar 16 Bright Planets at McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope
Mar 15 Solar Flare in the Gamma-ray Sky
Mar 14 Angry Sun Erupting
Feb 28 The Opposing Tails of Comet Garradd
Feb 21 Anticrepuscular Rays Over Wyoming
Feb 9 Trees, Stars, Aurora! Video
Feb 7 The Belt of Venus Over Mercedes, Argentina
Jan 31 The Helix Nebula from the VISTA Telescope
Jan 24 January Aurora Over Norway
Jan 21 Days in the Sun
Jan 16 Zodiacal Light and the False Dawn Video
Jan 2 Spot the Moon

2011 (55)

Dec 28 Comet Lovejoy over Paranal
Dec 27 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
Dec 22 Through a Sun Tunnel
Dec 17 Comet Lovejoy: Sungrazing Survivor
Dec 7 Kepler 22b: An Almost Earth Orbiting an Almost Sun
Nov 27 Shuttle Plume Shadow Points to the Moon
Nov 15 Orange Sun Scintillating
Nov 12 Sunspot Castle
Nov 6 Orange Sun Oozing Video
Oct 27 Young Suns of NGC 7129
Oct 25 IC 1805: The Heart Nebula in HDR
Oct 22 Jupiter Near Opposition
Oct 16 A Picturesque Venus Transit
Oct 12 Saturn: Shadows of a Seasonal Sundial
Oct 10 A Strange Sunrise Over Argentina
Oct 5 Comet and CME on the Sun Video
Oct 1 Asteroids Near Earth
Sep 30 Cloudy Night of the Northern Lights
Sep 28 Violent Sunspot Group AR 1302 Unleashes a Flare
Sep 25 A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun
Sep 23 September's Aurora
Sep 18 A Sharp View of the Sun
Sep 7 SDSS J102915+172927: A Star That Should Not Exist
Sep 5 HH 47: A Young Star Jet Expands Video
Sep 4 In the Shadow of Saturn
Aug 18 A Sun Pillar Over Ontario
Aug 16 Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula
Aug 7 MyCn18: An Hourglass Planetary Nebula
Jul 27 Introducing Comet Garradd
Jul 20 Noctilucent Clouds Over Edmonton
Jul 10 A Milky Way Band
Jul 3 Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System
Jun 26 NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula
Jun 15 Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
Jun 10 The Sun Unleashed
Jun 3 Midnight's Solar Eclipse
May 17 A Starry Night of Iceland
May 6 Farther Along
Apr 20 Rio Morning Moonset
Apr 10 Sunspot Loops in Ultraviolet
Mar 29 Kepler's Suns and Planets
Feb 23 The Solar System from MESSENGER
Feb 22 Star Size Comparisons Video
Feb 17 X-Class Flare
Feb 8 Iridescent Clouds from the Top of the World Highway
Feb 7 Sun 360: STEREO Captures Views of the Entire Sun
Feb 4 Zeta Oph: Runaway Star
Jan 21 Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka
Jan 18 Kona Galaxy Garden
Jan 15 A Total Eclipse at the End of the World
Jan 10 A Sun Halo Beyond Stockholm
Jan 7 Sunset, Moonset
Jan 6 Sunrise, Moonrise
Jan 5 Eclipsing the Sun
Jan 4 A Green Flash from the Sun

2010 (59)

Dec 31 Analemma 2010
Dec 21 Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky
Dec 15 A Huge Solar Filament Erupts Video
Nov 28 Anticrepuscular Rays Over Colorado
Nov 24 Flowing Auroras Over Norway Video
Nov 23 Gas and Snow Jets from Comet Hartley 2
Nov 11 Two Views, Two Crescents
Nov 2 Spicules: Jets on the Sun
Oct 18 It Came from the Sun
Oct 8 Two Planet Opposition
Oct 7 Pacman and Hartley
Sep 24 Equinox and the Harvest Moon
Sep 23 Equinox and the Iron Sun
Sep 18 Opposite the Sun
Sep 4 Young Suns of NGC 7129
Sep 1 Earth and Moon from MESSENGER
Aug 29 The Local Fluff
Aug 28 Hole in the Sun
Aug 7 Rainbow at Sunset
Aug 6 The Not So Quiet Sun
Aug 4 Eclipse Shadow Cone Over Patagonia
Jul 29 Sunset, Shadowrise
Jul 21 The Crown of the Sun
Jul 15 Andes Sunset Eclipse
Jul 13 Mosaic: Welcome to Planet Earth
Jul 10 Ecliptic New Zealand
Jul 4 Companion of a Young, Sun-like Star Confirmed
Jul 1 Above Aurora Australis
Jun 27 All the Colors of the Sun
Jun 23 Sunset from the International Space Station
Jun 21 Sunrise Solstice at Stonehenge
Jun 9 Orange Sun Simmering
Jun 7 Comet McNaught Becoming Visible to the Unaided Eye
May 23 Station and Shuttle Transit the Sun
May 22 Dark Filament of the Sun
May 4 A Hall of Mountain Fogbows
Apr 28 Sunset on a Golden Sea
Apr 25 Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula
Apr 23 SDO: The Extreme Ultraviolet Sun
Apr 18 Large Eruptive Prominence Imaged by STEREO
Apr 16 Bright Points on the Quiet Sun
Apr 4 The Belt of Venus over the Valley of the Moon
Mar 31 Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
Mar 27 Hesiodus Sunrise Ray
Mar 23 Reinvigorated Sun and Prominence
Mar 21 Equinox + 1
Mar 16 Detailed View of a Solar Eclipse Corona
Mar 15 Illuminated Cloud Trails Above Greece
Mar 6 Pillar at Sunset
Feb 23 Exceptional Rocket Waves Destroy Sun Dog
Feb 21 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Feb 18 Vesta Near Opposition
Feb 8 A Sun Halo Over Cambodia
Jan 29 Mars Opposition 2010
Jan 26 Annular Eclipse Over Myanmar
Jan 22 Millennium Annular Solar Eclipse
Jan 18 Eclipse over the Temple of Poseidon
Jan 16 New Year Sungrazer
Jan 6 The Spotty Surface of Betelgeuse

2009 (55)

Dec 23 December Sunrise, Cape Sounion
Dec 20 Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma
Dec 16 Comet Hyakutake Passes the Earth
Dec 13 Crescent Neptune and Triton
Dec 4 The Double Cluster
Nov 30 Bright Sun and Crescent Earth from the Space Station
Nov 14 DIA Sunrise
Nov 11 Great Observatories Explore Galactic Center
Nov 10 Saturn After Equinox
Nov 4 Blue Sun Bristling
Oct 20 A Solar Prominence Erupts in STEREO
Oct 2 Comet and Orion
Sep 30 Saturn at Equinox
Sep 22 Aurora Over Yellowknife
Sep 14 The Center of Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
Sep 7 Jupiter Over the Mediterranean
Sep 6 CMBR Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
Sep 1 Shadows of Saturn at Equinox
Aug 31 Open Cluster M25
Aug 25 Equinox at Saturn
Aug 10 Moonbow and Rainbows Over Patagonia Video
Aug 8 Diamonds in a Cloudy Sky
Aug 4 A Triple Sunrise Over Gdansk Bay
Jul 30 6 Minutes 42 Seconds
Jul 26 The Big Corona
Jul 24 Eclipse over Chongqing, China
Jul 11 Noctilucent Cloud Storm Panorama
Jul 5 Genesis Mission's Hard Impact
Jul 3 Perihelion and Aphelion
Jun 26 Solstice to Solstice Solargraph
Jun 24 Noctilucent Clouds Over Germany
Jun 7 Asteroid Eros Reconstructed
Jun 4 Sunspots on a Cloudy Day
May 31 A Solar Prominence from SOHO
May 16 Atlantis and Hubble Side by Side
May 7 A Halo for NGC 6164
Apr 9 Venus Near Inferior Conjunction
Apr 5 Orange Sun Oozing Video
Mar 25 Orcus of the Outer Solar System
Mar 22 Sungrazer
Mar 20 Sunset at the Portara
Mar 15 A Prominent Solar Prominence from SOHO
Mar 4 Saturn in View
Mar 3 The Helix Nebula from La Silla Observatory
Mar 1 Omega Centauri: The Largest Nearby Globular Cluster
Feb 27 Lulin and Saturn near Opposition
Feb 25 Two Tails of Comet Lulin
Feb 10 Orion's Belt
Feb 2 Comet Lulin Approaches
Jan 28 A Partial Eclipse Over Manila Bay
Jan 25 Annular Eclipse: The Ring of Fire
Jan 22 Planetary Nebula NGC 2818
Jan 15 Suspension Bridge Solargraph
Jan 11 In the Shadow of Saturn
Jan 10 Martian Sunset

2008 (51)

Dec 21 Analemma Over the Porch of Maidens
Dec 20 Solstice at Newgrange
Dec 15 A Sun Pillar Over North Carolina
Nov 22 From Moonrise to Sunset
Nov 17 HR 8799: Discovery of a Multi-planet Star System
Nov 16 Anticrepuscular Rays Over Colorado
Nov 2 Spicules: Jets on the Sun
Oct 26 Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24
Oct 24 Amazing Comet Holmes
Oct 4 A Solar Prominence Unfurls
Oct 3 Young Suns of NGC 7129
Sep 24 Active Region 1002 on an Unusually Quiet Sun
Sep 22 Equinox: The Sun from Solstice to Solstice
Sep 20 A Darkened Sky
Sep 19 Companion of a Young, Sun-like Star
Sep 6 A Flock of Stars
Aug 31 Eclipse over the Great Wall
Aug 18 Baily's Beads near Solar Eclipse Totality
Aug 11 Black Hole Candidate Cygnus X-1
Aug 8 The Crown of the Sun
Aug 7 At the Sun's Edge
Aug 5 A Total Solar Eclipse Over China
Aug 1 Moon Games
Jul 30 The International Space Station Transits the Sun
Jul 20 Crescent Rhea Occults Crescent Saturn
Jul 18 Jupiter over Ephesus
Jul 16 Makemake of the Outer Solar System
Jul 14 Changes in Angular Mars
Jun 20 Solstice Moonrise, Cape Sounion
Jun 9 Saturn's Rings from the Other Side
Jun 6 Two-Armed Spiral Milky Way
Jun 1 A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence
May 31 A View to the Sunset
May 24 Space Station in the Sun
May 16 Circles in the Sky
May 7 The Gegenschein Over Chile
May 4 An Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse
May 1 The Giants of Omega Centauri
Mar 20 Sunset: Planet Earth
Mar 15 Moon over Byzantium
Mar 9 CMBR Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
Mar 1 Mauna Kea Shadow Play
Feb 12 Echoes from RS Pup
Feb 6 Sunspot in the Old Solar Cycle
Feb 4 A Spider Shaped Crater on Mercury
Feb 2 Venus and Jupiter in Morning Skies
Jan 28 A Solar Eclipse Painting from the 1700s
Jan 27 Mercury on the Horizon
Jan 21 Mercury's Horizon from MESSENGER
Jan 16 MESSENGER Passes Mercury
Jan 12 Mercury Chases the Sunset

2007 (49)

Dec 23 Moon and Mars Tonight
Dec 22 Tyrrhenian Sea and Solstice Sky
Dec 10 A Jet from the Sun
Dec 6 Mars in View
Dec 4 Movie: Analemma Over New Jersey Video
Dec 3 A Complete Solar Cycle from SOHO
Nov 25 An Iridescent Cloud Over Colorado
Nov 21 Expansive Comet Holmes
Nov 10 A Tale of Comet Holmes
Nov 6 An X Class Flare Region on the Sun Video
Oct 28 Noctilucent Clouds Over Sweden
Oct 14 NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula
Oct 5 Starburst Cluster in NGC 3603
Oct 3 Comet Encke's Tail Ripped Off
Oct 2 Tutulemma: Solar Eclipse Analemma
Sep 30 A Milky Way Band
Sep 27 Hole in the Sun
Sep 23 The Equal Night
Aug 9 Star Cluster Messier 67
Jul 9 The Most Distant Sun
Jun 24 All the Colors of the Sun
Jun 21 Stars and the Solstice Sun
Jun 19 Eris: More Massive than Pluto
Jun 17 Analemma over Ukraine
Jun 9 Globular Star Cluster M3
Jun 5 Jet Approaching a Crescent Moon
Jun 3 Shuttle Plume Shadow Points to Moon
May 22 Orange Sun Oozing Video
May 17 The Milky Way Near the Southern Cross
Apr 26 Gliese 581 and the Habitable Zone
Apr 24 The Sun in Three Dimensions
Apr 19 NGC 5139: Omega Centauri
Apr 2 An Active Sunspot Viewed Sideways
Mar 31 Hale-Bopp: The Great Comet of 1997
Mar 25 Welcome to Planet Earth
Mar 23 Touran Sunrise
Mar 3 Lunar Transit from STEREO Video
Mar 2 Solar Eclipse from the Moon
Feb 27 Atmospheres Detected for Two Extrasolar Planets
Feb 21 Mira Over Germany
Feb 6 Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection
Feb 1 A Tail of Two Hemispheres
Jan 29 Movie: A Green Flash Over Italy
Jan 20 SOHO: Comet McNaught Movie Video
Jan 19 McNaught's Matinee
Jan 17 Comet McNaught from New STEREO Satellite
Jan 15 Comet McNaught Over Catalonia
Jan 5 Comet McNaught Heads for the Sun
Jan 2 Light from the First Stars

2006 (62)

Dec 30 Martian Analemma
Dec 29 Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka
Dec 26 The Gegenschein
Dec 23 The Analemma and the Temple of Olympian Zeus
Dec 22 The View from Stereo Ahead
Dec 19 Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24
Dec 18 Aurora Over Iowa
Dec 13 A Large Tsunami Shock Wave on the Sun
Dec 9 Three Planets in Dawn Skies
Dec 4 Movie: The Active Sun Video
Nov 25 3D Mercury Transit
Nov 17 Hand Drawn Transit
Nov 16 Children of the Sun
Nov 14 Mercury's Transit: An Unusual Spot on the Sun
Nov 10 Mercury and the Chromosphere
Nov 8 Simulated Transit of Mercury
Nov 6 The Ghostly Tail of Comet SWAN
Nov 4 Paranal Moonset
Nov 3 V838 Mon: Echoes from the Edge
Oct 29 The Sun Puffs
Oct 16 In the Shadow of Saturn
Oct 8 CMBR Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
Oct 4 Comet SWAN Brightens
Oct 3 Light from the Heart Nebula
Sep 23 Triple Sunrise
Sep 21 Sharp Silhouette
Sep 17 Anticrepuscular Rays Over Florida
Aug 30 A Backward Sunspot and the New Solar Cycle
Aug 7 An Erupting Solar Prominence from SOHO
Aug 1 The Milky Way over Utah
Jul 23 The Belt of Venus over the Valley of the Moon
Jul 18 Noctilucent Clouds Over Sweden
Jul 12 A Manhattan Sunset
Jul 10 Dark Sun Sizzling
Jul 1 Wind from a Black Hole
Jun 21 Sunrise Solstice at Stonehenge
Jun 18 Crescent Neptune and Triton
Jun 13 Driving Toward a Sun Halo
Jun 11 Sunspot Loops in Ultraviolet
May 27 Gamma-Ray Moon
May 26 Omega Centauri
May 7 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
May 2 Sunspot 875 Flares
Apr 26 Crumbling Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 Approaches
Apr 23 The Solar Spectrum
Apr 22 Z is for Mars
Apr 16 A Solar Prominence from SOHO
Apr 11 A Sun Halo over Utah
Apr 7 The Crown of the Sun
Apr 4 A Total Solar Eclipse over Turkey
Mar 31 Solar Eclipse and SOHO
Mar 28 Animation of Asteroids Passing Near Earth
Mar 19 Our Busy Solar System
Mar 12 Globular Cluster M3 from WIYN
Mar 6 Unexpected Comet Pojmanski Now Visible
Mar 5 Colorful Light Pillars
Feb 7 UB 313: Larger than Pluto
Feb 5 A Sun Pillar in Red and Violet
Feb 1 Venus Just After Sunset
Jan 20 LL Ori and the Orion Nebula
Jan 4 Hauoli Makahiki Hou
Jan 2 A Sun Pillar Over Maine

2005 (57)

Dec 21 Sunrise by Season
Dec 9 December Moon Meets Evening Star
Dec 4 Proxima Centauri: The Closest Star
Dec 1 SOHO's Uninterrupted View of the Sun
Nov 26 A Stereo Sun
Nov 20 Rays from an Unexpected Aurora
Nov 9 A Solar Prominence from SOHO
Nov 6 A Sunspot Up Close
Oct 31 A Martian Halloween
Oct 29 NGC 3242: The Ghost of Jupiter
Oct 28 October Mars
Oct 23 At the Center of the Milky Way
Oct 13 Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka
Oct 7 Eclipse Madrid
Oct 5 Annular Solar Eclipse at High Resolution
Sep 16 Northern Lights, September Skies
Aug 25 Barred Spiral Milky Way
Aug 18 Sylvia, Romulus and Remus
Aug 14 Heating Coronal Loops
Aug 11 Young Suns of NGC 7129
Aug 9 The Belt of Venus over Elwood Beach
Aug 8 Mars to Appear Normal This August
Jul 31 Solar System Object Larger than Pluto Discovered
Jul 29 ISS and Discovery Transit the Sun
Jul 13 Analemma of the Moon
Jul 2 Three Planets by the Sea
Jun 25 Venus: Just Passing By
Jun 23 Moonrise, Cape Sounion, Greece
Jun 22 Saturn's Rings from the Other Side
Jun 20 Sunset Over Gusev Crater
Jun 19 Noctilucent Clouds
Jun 9 Venus Returns to the Evening Sky
Jun 5 A Milky Way Band
Jun 3 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
May 22 The Dust and Ion Tails of Comet Hale-Bopp
May 20 Aurora Iowa
May 19 X-Ray Stars in the Orion Nebula
May 8 CMBR Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
May 6 Hybrid Solar Eclipse
May 3 Solar System Rising Over Fire Island
May 1 Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula
Apr 16 Celebrating Hubble With NGC 6751
Apr 14 April's Moon and the Pleiades
Apr 11 Clouds, Plane, Sun, Eclipse
Apr 7 Solar Eclipse in View
Mar 20 The Equal Night
Mar 18 Moon, Mercury, Monaco
Mar 10 NGC 1499: California Nebula
Mar 9 A Sun Halo Over Tennessee
Mar 7 Mercury Over Leeds
Feb 27 The Solar Spectrum
Feb 16 Sunspot Metamorphosis: From Bottom to Top
Feb 6 NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula
Jan 29 Southern Cross in Mauna Loa Skies
Jan 23 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Jan 7 S is for Venus
Jan 2 Welcome to Planet Earth

2004 (54)

Dec 8 In the Center of the Heart Nebula
Dec 6 Filaments Across the Sun
Nov 9 A Full Sky Multicolored Auroral Corona
Nov 3 A Time-Lapse Lunar Eclipse
Oct 10 Sunspot Loops in Ultraviolet
Sep 25 The Iron Sun
Sep 21 M24: A Sagittarius Starscape
Sep 14 Genesis Mission's Hard Impact
Sep 12 Mercury: A Cratered Inferno
Sep 8 Molecular Torus Surrounds Black Hole
Sep 1 An Inner Neptune for 55 Cancri
Aug 27 The Sedna Scenario
Aug 6 The Giant and the Glory
Aug 4 Solar Arcs and Halos
Aug 2 Spicules: Jets on the Sun
Jul 26 A Large Active Region Crosses the Sun
Jul 25 A Solar Filament Lifts Off
Jul 20 Space Station, Venus, Sun
Jul 17 Transit of Venus Stereogram
Jun 26 Neptune: Still Springtime After All These Years
Jun 23 A Picturesque Venus Transit
Jun 21 Analemma over Ancient Nemea
Jun 20 Solstice Celebration
Jun 15 A Rare Annular Venusian Solar Eclipse
Jun 11 Venus and the Chromosphere
Jun 10 Venus at the Edge
Jun 9 Venus Transit at Sunrise
Jun 8 A Planet Transits the Sun
Jun 6 Mercury Spotting
Jun 4 Sedna at Noon
May 28 A Manhattan Sunset
May 25 Moon Between the Stones
May 21 Phases of Venus
May 16 Venus: Earth's Cloudy Twin
May 14 Zubenelgenubi and Friends
May 12 The Tails of Comet NEAT (Q4)
May 3 Comets Bradfield and LINEAR Rising
Apr 30 Eyeful of Saturn
Apr 29 Titan's X-Ray
Apr 22 Comet C/2002 T7 (LINEAR)
Apr 19 Comet Bradfield Passes the Sun
Apr 13 An Iridescent Cloud Over France
Apr 2 Mercury and Venus in the West
Mar 30 A Prominent Solar Prominence from SOHO
Mar 28 Stars and the Bubble Nebula
Mar 21 A Green Flash from the Sun
Mar 20 Equinox + 1
Mar 16 Sedna of the Outer Solar System
Mar 5 V838 Mon: Echoes from the Edge
Feb 29 Julius Caesar and Leap Days
Feb 23 Heaven on Earth
Feb 14 Solar System Portrait
Jan 11 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Jan 10 Two Worlds, One Sun

2003 (65)

Dec 13 A Flock of Stars
Dec 10 Cassini Approaches Saturn
Dec 8 An Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse
Dec 4 New Horizons at Jupiter
Nov 25 A Late Leonid from a Sparse Shower
Nov 22 Moon AND Sun
Nov 20 Voyager at 90 AU
Nov 6 Flare Well AR 10486
Nov 4 Aurora Over Edmonton
Nov 2 A Giant Starspot on HD 12545
Oct 30 Aurora in Colorado Skies
Oct 29 A Powerful Solar Flare
Oct 27 Large Sunspot Groups 10484 and 10486
Oct 25 Islands in the Photosphere
Oct 21 The Belt of Venus over the Valley of the Moon
Oct 14 Iridescent Clouds Over Aiguille de la Tsa
Oct 3 Cold Comet Halley
Sep 20 Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun
Sep 15 Globular Cluster M3
Sep 13 NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula
Sep 2 Contemplating Mars
Aug 22 Shadow Rise
Aug 9 A Perseid Aurora
Jul 29 Orange Sun Simmering
Jul 15 Mars Rising Through Arch Rock
Jul 9 HD70642: A Star with Similar Planets
Jul 7 At the Edge of the Sun
Jun 29 The Solar Spectrum
Jun 26 Martian Analemma
Jun 24 The Sun's Surface in 3D
Jun 23 KamLAND Verifies the Sun
Jun 18 Clouds and the Moon Move to Block the Sun
Jun 15 Noctilucent Clouds
Jun 13 Neptune: Still Springtime After All These Years
Jun 10 Zooming in on the First Stars
Jun 6 Sun, Moon, Hot Air Balloon
Jun 5 Ring of Fire from Cape Wrath
Jun 4 Eclipse in the Mist
Jun 3 The Milky Way Behind an Eclipsed Moon
May 30 Ring of Fire Revisited
May 27 A Mercury Transit Sequence
May 17 Dark Sky, Bright Sun
May 13 Mercury Transits the Sun
May 10 NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula
May 8 Mercury Spotting
Apr 18 Double Eruptive Prominences
Apr 12 Mercury on the Horizon
Apr 5 The Seasons of Saturn
Mar 23 Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System
Mar 20 Sunrise Analemma
Mar 18 Coronal Holes on the Sun
Mar 11 Iridescent Clouds
Mar 6 Comet NEAT in Southern Skies
Feb 26 Anticrepuscular Rays Over Horseshoe Canyon
Feb 24 Comet Neat Passes an Erupting Sun
Feb 23 A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence
Feb 16 Southwest Mercury
Feb 10 Comet NEAT Approaches the Sun
Feb 9 COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
Jan 30 Comet Kudo-Fujikawa: Days in the Sun
Jan 23 Launch of the Sun Pillar
Jan 22 M11: The Wild Duck Cluster
Jan 17 Stars and the Bubble Nebula
Jan 13 The Dumbbell Nebula in Hydrogen and Oxygen
Jan 6 Shadow Cone of a Total Solar Eclipse

2002 (57)

Dec 30 A Sun Pillar
Dec 21 Solstice Celebration
Dec 13 The Crown of the Sun
Dec 6 Zimbabwe Solar Eclipse
Dec 4 Moon, Mars, Venus, and Spica
Nov 16 Tempel-Tuttle: The Leonid Comet
Nov 14 The Sharpest View of the Sun
Nov 10 A Green Flash from the Sun
Nov 4 Cassini Approaches Saturn
Oct 31 Aurora in the Night
Oct 18 At the Center of the Milky Way
Oct 15 Aurora's Ring
Oct 11 Fomalhaut Dust Disk Indicates Planets
Sep 29 Venus: Just Passing By
Sep 26 Rocket Trail at Sunset
Sep 25 Jupiter, Moons and Bees
Sep 18 A Sagittarius Starscape
Sep 2 Colorful Light Pillars
Aug 31 The Voyagers' Message in a Bottle
Aug 5 Rays from an Unexpected Aurora
Aug 2 Comet 57P Falls to Pieces
Aug 1 Sunspots and Solar Active Regions
Jul 31 Henize 3-401: An Elongated Planetary Nebula
Jul 29 A Setting Sun Trail
Jul 27 Apollo 11: Catching Some Sun
Jul 24 Our Busy Solar System
Jul 18 Sunspot Region 30
Jul 16 Outbound from Mercury
Jul 15 Proxima Centauri: The Closest Star
Jul 9 Analemma
Jun 24 The Sun's Heliosphere & Heliopause
Jun 21 Zimbabwe Sunset
Jun 19 The Moon & Venus Over Geneva
Jun 15 MyCn18: An Hourglass Nebula
Jun 14 55 Cancri: Familiar Planet Discovered
Jun 12 A Partial Eclipse Over the Golden Gate Bridge
Jun 10 Annular Eclipse: The Ring of Fire
May 16 Double Trouble Solar Bubbles
May 15 Tail Wags of Comet Ikeya-Zhang
May 9 Planets Over Stonehenge
May 8 Sunspot Loops in Ultraviolet
Apr 29 Dusk of the Planets
Apr 26 Comet Ikeya-Zhang Meets The ISS
Apr 25 Southern Cross in Mauna Loa Skies
Apr 17 The Glory
Mar 26 Comet Ikeya-Zhang Over Tenerife
Mar 21 S is for Sun
Mar 18 Comet Ikeya-Zhang's Busy Tail
Feb 17 The Local Bubble and the Galactic Neighborhood
Feb 14 Solar System Portrait
Feb 10 The Local Interstellar Cloud
Feb 7 Coronal Hole
Jan 31 EUVE Sky Map
Jan 15 Red Auroral Corona
Jan 14 Sun Halo at Winter Solstice
Jan 11 Sunbather
Jan 9 Blue Flash

2001 (72)

Dec 21 Partial Eclipse, Cloudy Day
Dec 11 Venusian Half-Shell
Dec 9 The Belt of Venus
Dec 6 Comet Linear (WM1) Brightens
Nov 29 Coronal Inflow
Nov 28 Extra-Solar Planetary Atmosphere Detected
Nov 24 Mariner's Mercury
Nov 9 SOHO Comet 367: Sungrazer
Nov 8 Under A Sunspot
Nov 7 A Sun Pillar in Red and Violet
Nov 5 Aurora Over Winnipeg
Oct 30 Anticrepuscular Rays Over Colorado
Oct 28 NGC 2346: A Butterfly-Shaped Planetary Nebula
Oct 14 Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope
Oct 10 The Center of Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
Oct 8 A Yukon Aurora
Oct 5 A Flock of Stars
Sep 29 The Iron Sun
Sep 24 A Solar Prominence Erupts
Sep 21 Where a Black Hole Roams
Sep 7 Moon AND Sun
Aug 19 Mercury: A Cratered Inferno
Aug 17 The 47 Ursae Majoris System
Aug 5 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Jul 11 A Total Eclipse Over Africa
Jul 10 Sudbury Indicates Nonstandard Particle Model
Jul 6 Bakasa Eclipse Sequence
Jul 4 Moonbow with Sailboats
Jul 2 The Seasons of Saturn
Jun 30 Hydrogen, Helium, and the Stars of M10
Jun 24 NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula
Jun 22 Eclipse in African Skies
Jun 21 Diamond Ring in the Sun
Jun 20 Total Eclipse of the Active Sun
Jun 19 Crescent Neptune and Triton
Jun 5 Asteroid Eros Reconstructed
Jun 4 The T Tauri Star Forming System
Jun 1 Venus' Evening Loop
May 20 Sagittarius Star Cloud
May 18 HD 82943: Planet Swallower
May 17 Solar Neutrino Astronomy
May 3 Far Side of the Sun
Apr 19 Sunspot Stack
Apr 11 Large Sunspot Group AR 9393
Apr 8 The Big Corona
Apr 7 Stereo Sun
Apr 6 Aurora Over New Zealand
Apr 2 Aurora Over Clouds
Mar 30 Equinox + 1
Mar 29 Aurora Alaskan Style
Mar 26 Comet Hale-Bopp in the Outer Solar System
Mar 20 Discovery Spring
Mar 18 The Nearest Stars
Mar 15 Islands in the Photosphere
Mar 13 A Sun Pillar
Mar 8 Bright Venus
Mar 6 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
Mar 2 LkHa101: The Hole in the Doughnut
Mar 1 Maximum Sun
Feb 23 M55: Color Magnitude Diagram
Feb 19 Shuttle Plume Shadow Points to Moon
Feb 5 Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula
Feb 4 Welcome to Planet Earth
Jan 31 Earth's Plasmasphere
Jan 29 An Airplane in Front of the Sun
Jan 28 CMB Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
Jan 24 NGC 3603: X-Rays From A Starburst Cluster
Jan 21 Resolving Mira
Jan 20 Helios Helium
Jan 14 Kepler Discovers How Planets Move
Jan 7 Tycho Brahe Measures the Sky
Jan 5 Second Millennium, Last Eclipse

2000 (63)

Dec 27 The Dust and Ion Tales of Comet Hale-Bopp
Dec 26 Jupiter, Io, and Shadow
Dec 25 The Eclipse Tree
Dec 21 Solstice And Season's Eclipse
Dec 19 A Close-Up of Aurora on Jupiter
Nov 20 A 2000 Leonid Through Orion
Nov 15 Coronal Rain, Solar Storm
Nov 8 October Skylights
Nov 6 Heaven on Earth
Oct 22 Wild Duck Open Cluster M11
Oct 14 The Ecliptic Plane
Oct 6 X-Rays From Sirius B
Sep 29 September Sky
Sep 28 Heating Coronal Loops
Sep 25 AR 9169: A Large Sunspot
Sep 23 The Equal Night
Sep 15 Aurora In West Texas Skies
Aug 28 The Helix Nebula from CFHT
Aug 21 A Perseid Aurora
Aug 17 Mount Megantic Magnetic Storm
Aug 15 The Solar Spectrum
Aug 9 A Solar Filament Lifts Off
Aug 7 Nearby Star Episilon Eridani Has a Planet
Jul 31 Comet LINEAR Breaks Up
Jul 30 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Jul 28 Moon And Venus Share The Sky
Jul 20 AR9077: Solar Magnetic Arcade
Jul 13 LP 944-20: A Failed Star Flares
Jul 12 A Giant Starspot on HD 12545
Jul 7 Sirius, Sun, Moon, and Southern Cross
Jul 4 Comet LINEAR Approaches
Jul 1 Ultraviolet Earth from the Moon
Jun 24 Sunlight Through Saturn's Rings
Jun 21 Solstice Celebration
Jun 20 Ganymede: The Largest Moon in the Solar System
Jun 8 Active Regions, CMEs, and X-Class Flares
Jun 4 MyCn18: An Hourglass Nebula
May 24 Pleiades, Planets, And Hot Plasma
May 22 Light Bridges on the Sun
May 20 Sungrazer
May 19 An Aurora Before the Storm
May 10 Dog-Bone Shaped Asteroid 216 Kleopatra
May 7 A Green Flash from the Sun
May 5 Planets In The Sun
Apr 13 Exploring Comet Tails
Apr 12 The Local Bubble and the Galactic Neighborhood
Apr 11 The Local Interstellar Cloud
Apr 10 Aurora in Red and Yellow
Apr 7 Celebrating Hubble With NGC 6751
Apr 6 Venus, Moon, and Neighbors
Apr 3 A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence
Mar 31 Free-Floating Planets In Orion
Mar 27 Flying Over Asteroid Eros
Mar 20 Mercury on the Horizon
Mar 18 A Wind From The Sun
Mar 9 Sun Storm: A Coronal Mass Ejection
Feb 29 Julius Caesar and Leap Days
Feb 23 Sunspot Seething
Feb 13 Southwest Mercury
Feb 10 Eros Encounter Nears
Jan 26 A Lunar Eclipse Over Time
Jan 15 The Sun Also Rises
Jan 10 Brown Sun Bubbling

1999 (68)

Dec 29 The Decade that Defined Star System
Dec 27 Solar Moss
Dec 23 Unusual Aurora During Solar Wind Dropout
Dec 19 Accretion Disk Binary System
Dec 10 Spot The Planet
Nov 30 Henize 70: A SuperBubble In The LMC
Nov 20 Small Star
Nov 19 Mercury And The Sun
Nov 11 Mercury And The Moon
Nov 10 The Belt of Venus
Nov 6 X-ray Transit of Mercury
Nov 2 Aurora Through a Moonlit Sky
Nov 1 The Rotten Egg Planetary Nebula
Oct 28 X-Ray Jet From Centaurus A
Oct 25 Neptune in Infrared
Oct 24 The Magnetic Carpet Of The Sun
Oct 21 Follow The Spots
Oct 18 NGC 3603: An Active Star Cluster
Oct 12 NGC 2346: A Butterfly-Shaped Planetary Nebula
Oct 11 Eta Carinae in X-Rays
Sep 23 Equinox and Eruptive Prominence
Sep 15 The Big Corona
Sep 12 Stonehenge: Ancient Monument to the Sun
Sep 9 Comet Hale-Bopp Over the Superstition Mountains
Sep 8 A Superior Conjunction Of Mercury
Sep 3 Venus Falls Out of the Evening Sky
Aug 31 Symbiotic Star Bubbles
Aug 23 Sundogs over the VLA
Aug 20 At The Sun's Edge
Aug 19 Light From The Dark Sun
Aug 18 Sun Block
Aug 17 A Crescent Sunrise
Aug 12 Deploying Spartan
Aug 10 A Total Eclipse for Europe
Jul 31 X-Ray Triple Jet
Jul 26 Noctilucent Clouds
Jul 10 Southern Neptune
Jul 7 M80: A Dense Globular Cluster
Jul 6 A Sun Pillar
Jul 5 Four Faces of Mars
Jul 3 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Jun 27 COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
Jun 25 The Gegenschein
Jun 15 The Sun Oscillates
Jun 12 Venus: Just Passing By
Jun 6 Kepler Discovers How Planets Move
Jun 5 Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
May 30 Tycho Brahe Measures the Sky
May 29 The Ecliptic Plane
May 5 A Solar System Portrait
Apr 30 Solar Shock Wave
Apr 27 Introducing Comet Lee
Apr 22 Where is Upsilon Andromedae?
Apr 21 The Nearest Stars
Apr 19 The Full Moon
Apr 17 Gamma Ray Moon
Apr 16 Upsilon Andromedae: An Extra-Solar System
Mar 16 Sigmoids Predict Solar Eruptions
Mar 12 Hydrogen, Helium, and the Stars of M10
Feb 24 A Milky-Way Band
Feb 14 Dark Sky, Bright Sun
Feb 13 Pluto: The Frozen Planet
Feb 8 The Solar Wind Emerges
Feb 4 Spiral Sunspot
Jan 31 Welcome to the Planet Earth
Jan 13 Sagittarius Star Cloud
Jan 11 Perihelion Sun
Jan 2 Mercury: A Cratered Inferno

1998 (52)

Dec 21 Solstice Sun In Soft X-rays
Dec 12 Driving To The Sun
Nov 10 NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula
Nov 8 Leonid Meteor Shower Next Week
Oct 24 The Sun Also Rises
Oct 20 Infrared Uranus
Oct 15 A Great Day For SOHO
Oct 11 Resolving Mira
Oct 6 Comet Williams in 1998
Oct 5 A Sunspot Up Close
Sep 25 Twin Proto-Planetary Disks
Sep 23 Autumn and the Active Sun
Sep 13 Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope
Sep 6 Mariner's Mercury
Aug 30 The Sun Erupts
Aug 24 An Annular Eclipse of the Sun
Aug 20 SOHO Composite: Coronal Mass Ejection
Aug 17 Comet Hyakutake and the Milky Way
Aug 12 ERAST Pathfinder-Plus: Daedalus Defied
Aug 11 Sun Dance
Jul 26 Antares
Jul 19 Globular Cluster M3
Jul 17 Hyakutake: Stars Through A Comet's Tail
Jul 16 X-Ray Triple Jet
Jul 2 X-ray Transit Of Mercury
Jun 29 Solar Magnetic Bananas
Jun 27 Southern Neptune
Jun 26 A Planet For Gliese 876
Jun 16 An Active Region of the Sun
Jun 13 Henize 70: A SuperBubble In The LMC
Jun 11 SOHO's Twin Sungrazers
Jun 8 A Mars Glint
Jun 5 Neutrinos in the Sun
Jun 1 Solar Flares Cause Sun Quakes
May 26 A Seemingly Square Sun
May 21 Bright Comet SOHO
May 20 Discovery Image: Comet SOHO (1998 J1)
May 16 Helios Helium
May 15 TRACE and the Active Sun
May 1 Venus: Just Passing By
Apr 29 Tornadoes on the Sun
Apr 26 NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Apr 19 Betelgeuse
Apr 13 The Sun Changes
Mar 25 Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 in Infrared
Mar 22 Sunspots: Magnetic Depressions
Mar 11 A Total Eclipse of the Sun
Feb 27 Solar Eclipse: A Composite View
Feb 25 The Solar Neighborhood
Feb 21 Neptune: Big Blue Giant
Feb 18 M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
Feb 2 A Triple Eclipse on Jupiter

1997 (45)

Dec 28 Pluto: The Frozen Planet
Dec 21 A Winter Solstice
Dec 17 Stonehenge: Ancient Monument to the Sun
Nov 30 Mercury: A Cratered Inferno
Nov 20 Escape From The Sun
Nov 8 Aristarchus' Unbelievable Discoveries
Nov 6 The Magnetic Carpet Of The Sun
Oct 28 Rafting for Solar Neutrinos
Oct 26 Welcome to Planet Earth
Oct 5 Worlds of a Distant Sun: 47 Ursae Majoris b
Sep 28 A Wolf Rayet Star Bubble
Sep 27 The Ecliptic Plane
Sep 23 A Martian Autumn Begins
Sep 18 Erupting Sun
Sep 14 MyCn18: An Hourglass Nebula
Sep 13 Kepler Discovers How Planets Move
Sep 9 A Green Flash from the Sun
Sep 4 Rivers in the Sun
Sep 3 A Partial Eclipse in Southern Skies
Sep 2 Dark Sky, Bright Sun
Aug 13 Resolving Mira
Jul 23 A Hale-Bopp Triple Crown
Jun 27 Mars: Just The Facts
Jun 24 Antares
Jun 18 Asteroid 3753: Earth's Curious Companion
Jun 5 Small Star
May 29 Southern Neptune
May 7 Ultraviolet Venus
Apr 11 The Sun Puffs
Mar 31 NGC 3242: The 'Ghost of Jupiter' Planetary Nebula
Mar 14 Comet Hale-Bopp's Developing Tail
Mar 8 COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
Feb 26 Sungrazer
Feb 17 A Wind From The Sun
Feb 16 Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
Feb 13 More Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp
Feb 10 The Gamma Ray Moon
Feb 6 Comet Hale-Bopp Returns
Jan 27 A Prominent Solar Prominence
Jan 13 Sunspots: Magnetic Depressions
Jan 12 Mercury in Stereo: Craters Within Craters
Jan 8 Grey Sun Seething
Jan 7 Red Sun Streaming
Jan 6 Blue Sun Glaring
Jan 3 A Wolf-Rayet Star Blows Bubbles

1996 (56)

Dec 21 Sun and Winter Solstice 1996
Dec 17 Mariner's Mercury
Dec 6 Globular Cluster M3
Dec 3 Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Nov 21 The Blue Snowball Planetary Nebula
Nov 13 Seven Jets from Comet Hale-Bopp
Nov 8 A Solar Corona Ejection
Oct 21 Explanation:
Sep 23 Explanation:
Sep 22 The Equal Night
Sep 21 The Ecliptic Plane
Sep 17 Comet Hale-Bopp Fades
Sep 16 Explanation:
Sep 14 Aristarchus' Unbelievable Discoveries
Sep 13 Southwest Mercury
Sep 12 Mercury: A Cratered Inferno
Sep 2 Sirius: The Brightest Star in the Night
Aug 31 Kepler Discovers How Planets Move
Aug 30 Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope
Aug 26 A Wolf-Rayet Star Bubble
Aug 19 Welcome to Planet Earth
Jul 27 Driving to the Sun
Jul 1 Worlds of a Distant Sun: 47 Ursae Majoris b
Jun 29 The Voyagers' Message in a Bottle
Jun 20 Apollo Sunrise
Jun 10 Ultraviolet Earth
May 26 Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System
May 21 The Iron Sun
May 20 Helios Helium
May 18 The Sun Today
May 17 Comet Hyakutake and a Solar Flare
May 16 Comet Hyakutake Passes the Sun
May 11 Sunlight Through Saturn's Rings
May 10 Henize 70: A SuperBubble In The LMC
May 1 Comet Hyakutake and a Cactus
Apr 28 The Sun Sets on Comet Hyakutake
Apr 17 NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula
Apr 14 The Rotating Jets of Comet Hyakutake
Apr 11 Unexpected X-rays from Comet Hyakutake
Apr 10 Comet Hyakutake and a Tree
Mar 31 Comet Hyakutake Finder Chart for April
Mar 30 An Extreme UltraViolet View of the Comet
Mar 26 What are Comet Tails Made Of?
Mar 19 The Ion Tail of Comet Hyakutake
Mar 15 The McMath-Pierce Solar Observatory
Mar 14 Comet Hyakutake's Orbit
Feb 19 Periodic Comet Swift-Tuttle
Feb 5 COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe
Jan 31 Planets Around Sun-Like Stars
Jan 30 70 Virginis b: A New Water Planet?
Jan 22 Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse
Jan 20 Mercury's Caloris Basin
Jan 19 The Dusty Disk of Beta Pic
Jan 18 MyCn18: An Hourglass Nebula
Jan 17 NGC 7027: A Dying Star's Nebula
Jan 16 Wild Duck Open Cluster M11

1995 (19)

Dec 26 Accretion Disk Binary System
Dec 11 NGC 5189: A Strange Planetary Nebula
Dec 1 51 Pegasi: A New Planet Discovered
Nov 30 NGC 2440 Nucleus: The Hottest Star?
Nov 17 The Sun Also Rises
Oct 30 Comet Hale-Bopp Update
Oct 27 The Tarantula and the Supernova
Oct 25 Painting with Solar Neutrons
Oct 24 A Total Solar Eclipse
Oct 4 The Sun Spews X-rays
Aug 26 Two Tails of Comet West
Aug 21 An Orbiting Iceberg
Aug 18 Pluto: The Frozen Planet
Aug 17 Neptune: Big Blue Giant
Aug 15 Venus: Earth's Sister Planet
Aug 14 Mercury: Closest Planet to the Sun
Aug 13 The Sun Erupts
Jul 27 M57: The Ring Nebula
Jul 25 M1: The Crab Nebula

Source

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