All you need to know about 2017's major meteor showers. Moonlight will interfere with this year's Perseid shower on the mornings of August 12 and 13. Start watching for meteors this weekend, and watch through early August, while the moon is out of the way between midnight and dawn, and the Perseids are gearing up.
Amirul Syazani in Malaysia caught earthshine on this morning's waning crescent moon. Did you see it from the Americas? Not likely, especially as the line of moonrise, and sunrise, edge farther west today.
Curtis Beaird wrote, "Bees, butterflies and hummingbirds love these sunflowers. Mexican sunflower, Japanese sunflower (Tithonia diversifolia) ... We had a field day with the six plants that managed to germinate and grow. Birds really like the seeds."
