The Summer Triangle is made of 3 bright stars - Vega, Deneb and Altair - in 3 different constellations. Image via our friend Susan Gies Jensen in Odessa, Washington.
It's not officially summer yet on the northern half of Earth, but our skies are beginning to look like summer. On these June evenings, find the large pattern of the Summer Triangle ascending in the east. Read more.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was used to create a large mosaic of stars and dust clouds in the direction of the constellation Cepheus. Here are multiple star clusters - young, middle-aged and older - born from the same dense clumps of gas and dust. See the image and read more.
A new study reports that sponges, which can filter 10,000 liters (2,600 gallons) of water daily, catch DNA in their tissues as they filter-feed. Read more.
See those 2 bright stars near tonight's moon? They are Castor and Pollux in the constellation Gemini the Twins. Even when the moon has moved away, you can recognize these stars. No other 2 bright stars in our sky are so noticeably close together. Read more.
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Eelix Fui captured this spectacular lighting in Sabah, North Borneo, Malaysia, on the night of May 30. Eelix said: “There was non-stop lightning that night ... It's so beautiful, but so scary too.”
