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Night sky photograph taken through out-of-focus tree branches, which appear as blurred yellow-green shapes in the foreground. Several faint stars are visible in the deep blue sky, with one noticeably brighter point of light near the center of the frame.

Sky This Week, The Sky This Week

The Sky This Week from July 3 to 10: Mars and Uranus meet

Photograph showing the close conjunction of bright Venus with the star Regulus in Leo at dawn on October 3, 2020.

July 2026: What’s in the sky this month? Venus and Jupiter are visible in the evening, plus a conjunction of Mars and Uranus before dawn

Features, Science

Our planet’s electronic vulnerability

Human Spaceflight

Cracks in the International Space Station are causing air leaks – how much longer can it remain habitable?

A photograph of a full Moon glowing warm orange just above the rugged ridgeline of a rocky, tree-dotted mountain slope. The Moon's surface details are visible through its amber hue, and it is surrounded by a soft golden glow against a deep blue twilight sky.

Sky This Week, The Sky This Week

The Sky This Week from June 26 to July 3: A sweet June Strawberry Moon

Deep-Sky Objects

Summer observing targets for small telescopes

Stargazing under city lights

Deep-Sky Objects

Summer observing targets for large telescopes

The Milky Way stretches in a broad arc across a dark, star-filled sky above a mountain range with snow-dusted peaks and green alpine valleys. Bright pink and magenta clouds of glowing gas are visible in the upper left portion of the sky, with patches of dark dust threading through the dense band of stars. A few small structures — including a tiny settlement — are visible at the base of the mountains.

Astrophotography, Features

Capturing the night sky in Kyrgyzstan

A misty summer forest scene with golden sunlight streaming through the canopy of large oak trees, illuminating a mossy, rocky streambank beside a shallow, gently flowing river. A lens flare is visible in the lower center of the image.

Sky This Week, The Sky This Week

The Sky This Week from June June 19 to 26: The summer solstice

A vivid outback sunset over a flat, arid Australian landscape. The sky is dramatic with layered clouds lit in shades of deep red, pink, orange, and gold above the horizon. The foreground shows red-brown earth, sparse scrubby vegetation, and a fallen dead tree with exposed roots. Silhouettes of eucalyptus trees line the middle distance.

A meteorite impact may have once rained gold on Western Australia – new study

Hubble Space Telescope image of an irregular dwarf galaxy showing bright blue star clusters, pink star-forming regions, and a dusty golden core against a black starfield.

Exotic Objects, Galaxies

Active black holes are more common than we thought

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This artist’s conception illustrates one of the most primitive supermassive black holes known (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have uncovered two of these early objects, dating back to about 13 billion years ago. The monstrous black holes are among the most distant known, and appear to be in the very earliest stages of formation, earlier than any observed so far. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

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Credit: Tim Doucette.

Observing

Learn about upcoming observing events such as eclipses, meteor showers, comets, conjunctions, and more.

This 2016 Curiosity rover selfie shows the vehicle at the “Okoruso” drilling site on Mount Sharp’s Naukluft Plateau. The Martian scene is a mosaic of images taken with the arm-mounted Mars Hands Lens Imager (MAHLI). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Space Exploration

Human and robotic missions are helping humanity explore our solar system and beyond.

Sky This Week

Night sky photograph taken through out-of-focus tree branches, which appear as blurred yellow-green shapes in the foreground. Several faint stars are visible in the deep blue sky, with one noticeably brighter point of light near the center of the frame.

Sky This Week, The Sky This Week

The Sky This Week from July 3 to 10: Mars and Uranus meet

Sky This Month

Photograph showing the close conjunction of bright Venus with the star Regulus in Leo at dawn on October 3, 2020.

July 2026: What’s in the sky this month? Venus and Jupiter are visible in the evening, plus a conjunction of Mars and Uranus before dawn

Picture of the Day

A large, glowing cloud of gas fills the frame against a dense starfield. Its center glows teal and blue, ringed and streaked by billowing gold, orange, and rust-brown clouds, with dark lanes of dust winding through the right side. The colors are vivid and painterly.

A stellar nursery in Cygnus

Ron Brecher from Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Sharpless 2–112 is a glowing cloud of ionized hydrogen roughly 30 light-years across, threaded by dark rifts of dust. It lies about 6,500 light-years away in Cygnus and is energized by the hot, massive O-type star BD+45 3216. The imager took nearly 24½ hours of exposure in the Hubble palette with a 14-inch scope at f/11.

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