Night Sky Pictures: Stargazer Photos of Stars and Planets

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an airplane flies in front of the full moon in a dark sky

See November's Full Beaver Moon light up the sky around the world (photos)

By Robert Lea published

November's Beaver Moon, the second to last full moon of 2023, was captured by photographers across the globe on Monday (Nov. 27), lighting up the internet with stunning images.

The moon
the dusty lanes of the milky way with a glowing bit towards the center

The Milky Way's dusty galaxy heart has a super-strange glow (photo)

By Miguel Claro published

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro stitched together an eerie look at the core of our galaxy, the Milky Way, showing glowing lights in the dark.

Astrophotography
The full "Hunter's moon" is pictured during a partial lunar eclipse above Kuwait City on October 28, 2023.

Full Hunter's Moon lunar eclipse, last eclipse of 2023, an early Halloween treat for stargazers (photos)

By Robert Lea published

A lunar eclipse visible to potentially millions of stargazers across the Eastern Hemisphere on Saturday offered an early skywatching treat before Halloween.

Stargazing
the milky way arched over a dark landscape

Home of the world's most powerful telescopes joins the fight against light pollution

By Keith Cooper published

Improved lighting standards coming into force across the whole of Chile will protect astronomy observations, public health and wildlife.

Stargazing
a telescope sits beside a vast plain ringed by mountains as the sun rises overhead

Fire in the sky: Chasing the annular solar eclipse 2023 on the Extraterrestrial Highway

By Brett Tingley published

The deserts of Nevada provided the perfect setting for the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 14, 2023 in a region known for its love of strange sights in the sky.

Eclipses
the moon blocks the sun in a ring of fire solar eclipse

The annular solar eclipse of 2023 is underway! See the 1st 'ring of fire' photos and video

By Tariq Malik published

The first images of the moon passing between the sun and the Earth in a so-called "ring of fire" solar eclipse visible are coming in and the views are amazing.

Eclipses
telescope image of a rosy-red nebula in deep space, with bright bluish-white stars in the background.

Rosy red nebula glows in gorgeous new European Southern Observatory photo

By Samantha Mathewson published

The European Southern Observatory's VLT Survey Telescope captured a beautiful new image of the rosy red emission nebula known as IC1284.

Stars
A full moon is seen rising between industrial metal railings ang guards.

Brilliant Harvest Moon, the last supermoon of 2023, wows stargazers around the world (photos)

By Josh Dinner published

The final supermoon of the year, the Harvest Moon of September, gave skywatchers the final lunar thrill of the season.

Stargazing
A swirling, dynamic, long-exposure image of Paranal Observatory at night. The backdrop of the night sky is a deep blue, with long arcs of white light bending across it horizontally. The circular pattern of stars is broken by two beams of orange light erupting out of a cylindrical telescope house. There are two other similar cylindrical domes to its left, and a smaller one further behind. In the foreground of the image on the right-hand side is the spherical white structure of an Auxiliary Telescope, with its shell open so that the telescope inside can observe the cosmos.

Lasers cut through star trails in beautiful photo from the European Southern Observatory

By Samantha Mathewson published

A new long exposure image from the European Southern Observatory captures stars as they travel overhead, creating what is known as star trails with the help of bright laser guide star beams.

Stars
a circular overhead view of the sky and shooting stars and the milky way

Watch the glow of the Milky Way and ghostly zodiacal light during the 2023 Perseid meteor shower (video)

By Miguel Claro published

The new moon glows in the sky above Turkey with the reflected light of Earth shining upon it in gorgeous photos by astrophotographer Miguel Claro.

Meteors & Meteor Showers
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