On April 18, 2025, the WFI-2 instrument (which captured its first light on April 14) took images through all three of its polarizers in succession for the first time to create this view. The image is ...

NASA's newest spacecraft aimed at studying the sun have captured a colorful "rainbow" in the warm glow of zodiacal light observed above Earth. The PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and ...

The largest rainbowlike feature ever observed in the solar system was just captured by a newly launched spacecraft, as NASA scientists work to better understand the sun and forecast space weather.

Night sky lovers have been getting all kinds of treats in the last month: A Perseid meteor shower that’s included fireballs, and a rare “Black Moon” that gave us a really dark sky - all the better to ...

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...

Recently, the Chilean night sky was illuminated by the glow of the Milky Way galaxy as it was seen above the domes of telescopes at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a facility of ...

The Moon reaches apogee, the farthest point from Earth in its orbit, at 5:46 A.M. EDT. At that time, our satellite will stand 251,996 miles (405,548 km) away. With the Moon sinking low in the hours ...

Astronomy magazine's Editor Emeritus, Dave Eicher, encourages pre-dawn observation of the zodiacal light. The zodiacal light is described as having a triangular, inverted cone-like appearance.

This weekend and for the next two weeks or so is a good time to view the zodiacal light in the predawn eastern sky. The zodiacal light is a large pyramidal glow in the western sky after sunset or in ...