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View larger. | False-color view of the hidden Mars volcano Jezero Mons. It is approximately 13 miles (21 km) across. It had been “hiding in plain sight” as a regular

A planisphere will let you know what stars and constellations are overhead for any night of the year. It’s summertime in the Northern Hemisphere and it’s a great time to

View larger. | Composite image of Uranus (blue) along with some of Uranus’ largest moons. From largest to smallest: Ariel, Miranda, Titania, Oberon and Umbriel (not to scale). A new

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Peter Lowenstein in Mutare, Zimbabwe, caught the waning moon, Mars and a flock of whistling ducks at dawn on August 9, 2020. Thank you,

This is the Proba-3 spacecraft’s newly unveiled first view of the sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere. This is a filtered visible light view, revealing the corona as a human eye

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | The bright star in the center of this montage of time-exposure photos is Polaris, the North Star. Perhaps you’ve heard it stays still in

View larger. | The Webb space telescope used its NIRCam instrument on May 18, 2024, to capture this image of the massive, cold exoplanet 14 Herculis c. At 26 degrees

This video depicts a simulation of millions of small solar system objects that astronomers said the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will discover in the next 10 years. Video via Jake

View larger. | Artist’s concept of a gigantic hot exoplanet – designated WASP-121b – when it was younger and still orbiting far from its star. The gap is where the

An international team of astronomers said on June 4, 2025, that they’ve found a giant planet around a tiny star. The discovery challenges theories of planet formation. Image via University