On March 20, 2025, NOAA’s South Pole Atmospheric Baseline Observatory saw the final glimpse of sunlight before 6 months of darkness. In this image, a wave of snow frames Dark Sector telescopes. Image via Ian Crocker/ NOAA.| EarthSky
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured this outstanding image of an Einstein ring. In this case, a foreground elliptical galaxy (bright, fuzzy object at center) is acting as a gravitational lens, which bends the light to reveal the background spiral galaxy. The spiral galaxy appears as an Einstein ring around the elliptical. Image via ESA/ Webb/ NASA/ CSA/ G. Mahler.Webb images an outstanding Einstein ring| EarthSky
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Today's Image Last night’s moon blotted out Saturn. Pics here!| EarthSky
This is the new species of moray eel hidding among mangrove aerial roots. Image via Hirozumi Kobayashi/ ZooKeys.A team of scientists has discovered a new species of moray eel in river mouths of the Central Indo-Pacific. Interestingly, this discovery has a peculiarity, as moray eels usually live in saltwater, not in estuarine habitats, that is, in places where rivers meet the sea. The international team of scientists that discovered the animal nicknamed this striking species after the god of t...| EarthSky
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Amr Abdulwahab captured this image of the Milky Way on July 8, 2022. Amr wrote: “Sahara el Beyda, the White Desert Protected Area, is a national park in Egypt, first established as a protected area in 2002. It is located in the Farafra depression, 28 miles (45 km) north of the town of Qsar El Farafra. Part of the park is in the Farafra Oasis (New Valley Governorate). The park is the site of large white chalk rock formations, created through erosion by wi...| EarthSky
This image shows a long filament of solar material, erupting into space. It happened on August 31, 2012. The accompanying coronal mass ejection (CME) traveled at over 900 miles per second (1,500 km/sec), rippling out into the solar system. Note: Earth to scale, but Earth is not this close to the sun. Image via NASA/ SDO spacecraft. A much-larger CME in the year 1859 caused the Carrington Event, which manifested as perplexing disruptions in the technologies then in use, such as the telegraph...| EarthSky
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Michael Teoh at Heng Ee Observatory in Penang, Malaysia, captured this photo of Sirius A (center) and Sirius B (a white dwarf on the left) on January 26, 2021. He used 30 1-second exposures and stacked them together to make faint Sirius B appear. Thank you, Michael!The brightest star in our sky, Sirius, and its white dwarf companion, Sirius B, are currently farthest apart from our perspective. The two stars orbit each other with a period of about 50 years,...| EarthSky
