Look above Venus for the bright star ... You'll need binoculars to see it — as well as a dark, clear sky. It’s a long-period comet from the Oort Cloud, a sphere around the solar system that ...
The narrow wedge of the zodiacal light (left) reaches nearly to the Milky Way (right) on Nov. 1 from near Kenton, Oklahoma. The zodiacal light stands high in the eastern sky this time of year but ...
As the sky turned a deep shade of blue, stars began to appear above Hovenweep National Monument, Utah, one of the world’s first Dark Sky Parks ... glasses while thick clouds blocked the view ...
In San Luis Obispo, Michael Toews captured photos of the northern lights visible behind wispy clouds scattered above ... shared images of the lights from dark-sky spots around the state.
(When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the ...
Joya-La Barreta Ecological Park’s dark-sky status is under constant threat from increasing light pollution and urbanization ...