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Photographer: James Anderson Summary Author: James Anderson Featured above is a magnificent view of the Olympic Mountains of Washington State as observed from Golden Gardens, overlooking Shilshole Bay. The view here is looking west. The serrated peaks of the Olympics,...

Photographer: Paolo Palma Summary Authors: Paolo Palma; Jim Foster Shown above at lower left is the astonishing star Mira in the Whale's neck which, when I photographed it in mid-March 2024, was barely visible to the naked eye. I captured...

Photographer: Lee Anne Willson Summary Authors: Iowa Storm Chasers, Lee Anne Willson Pictured above is the windshield of my Honda after a muddy rain fell on March 25 (2024). Many Iowans looked at their car windows and were perplexed by...

Photographer: Shreya Roy Summary Authors: Shreya Roy: Jim Foster Featured above is the conjunction of the waxing crescent Moon and Saturn as observed from Kolkata, India the night of January 14, 2024. During their closest approach, they were but 2...

Photographer: Ray Boren Summary Author: Ray Boren Resembling gigantic lithified soccer footballs, New Zealand’s striated gray Moeraki boulders (top photo) lie scattered across South Island’s Koekohe Beach, north of the city of Dunedin. It's as if primordial Titans had been...

Photographer: Barbara Pindo Summary Author: Barbara Pindo During a bus ride from Syracuse to Palermo in Sicily (Italy), I noticed the above geological formation called calanchi in Italian. The Calanques have given life to the suggestive term Calanchi Desert, characterized...

Photographer: Carlos Di Nallo Summary Author: Carlos Di Nallo The image above shows details in the southern sky as observed during austral spring from Clachaquies Valleys in Argentina. In the photograph, we see at the top the Southern Cross. Just...

Photographer: Juned Patel Summary Author: Juned Patel Shown above is an ultra-thin crescent Moon that I captured in the early evening hours of February 10, 2024, from Blackpool, U.K. Can you find it? It's less than one percent illuminated (0.90...

Photographer: Jose Fernández Arozena Summary Author: Jose Fernández Arozena Shown above is an enormous, golden lenticular cloud that was anchored practically all day over the bay of Santa Cruz de La Palma (La Palma island, Canary Islands, Spain). The camera...

Photographer: Paolo Bardelli Summary Author: Paolo Bardelli Stratospheric polar clouds, as the name suggests, are typically confined to the poles and occur in winter at high latitudes where the stratosphere cools to temperatures of -120 F (-85 C), allowing them...