This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image over the South Atlantic Ocean features a close-up view of the A23a iceberg, once the world’s largest. The unusually cloud-free image shows the first signs that
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On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora,
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View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Garth Battista captured this scene of fireflies in the Catskill Mountains on June 23, 2025. Garth wrote: “Mountaintop fireflies! One firefly’s path seems to
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