View full size. | World map of time zones. UTC (0) is the green vertical stripe just to the left of center. Image via TimeZonesBoy/ CIA/ Wikimedia.Time zones| EarthSky
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View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Marsha Chan in Los Angeles, California, captured this celestial trifecta – of the Harvest Moon, a supermoon and a partial lunar eclipse – on September 17, 2024. Thank you, Marsha! The Harvest Moon is one of the North American full moon names.Cultures across the world have given special names to full moons, and this practice is very much alive in North America. Some almanacs assign full moon names by the month. On the other hand, other almanacs like to ...| EarthSky
Satellite views of Earth on the solstices and equinoxes. From left to right, a June solstice, a September equinox, a December solstice and a March equinox. To understand these images, look at the poles. Notice that at the June solstice, the North Pole is in sunlight. At the December solstice, the South Pole is in sunlight. Read more about these images, which are via Robert Simmon (Sigma Space Corporation)/ NASA.June solstice in 2026| EarthSky
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Vedant Pandey of India submitted this composite image of Mars racing toward its January 2025 opposition. Vedant wrote: “I used my 5-inch Maksutov telescope and smartphone camera to capture Mars over a period of 10 months.” Thank you, Vedant!| EarthSky