Short streaks in a dark sky. One of them shows a green explosion.
The Lyrid #meteors are back! And they are reaching their peak tonight. So how can you optimize your chances of seeing a great #Lyrid meteor shower? 🌠
Watch this video for 10 tips on meteor watching:
buff.ly/cZrOYiN
And read more here:
buff.ly/LPlX5gk
📸 Tameem Altameemi.
Following the Quadrantid #meteorshower in early January, skywatchers face several months every year with no major meteor showers ... But that drought is now over, as the #Lyrid meteor shower peaks tonight! 🌠 #astronomy
Read more:
buff.ly/I9WOkkA
Or watch a video:
buff.ly/Iw2pFch
📹 EarthSky.org.
Long, bright cloud-like formation of stars over a coastal shoreline.
Melissa Neadle at Assateague Island National Seashore on the East Coast captured this beautiful view of the #MilkyWay over the coastal marshlands on Saturday. Thank you, Melissa! 🌌🌊
buff.ly/ILsgUyp
📸 Go to EarthSky Community Photos to see more stunning images:
buff.ly/2cMnW1f
View of a starry sky inside a circular opening, with text labels.
Venus and Jupiter are inching closer ... 🌌🔭 EarthSky's Marcy Curran in Cheyenne, Wyoming, captured this view of #Venus and #Jupiter with an allsky camera on Saturday. Thank you, Marcy! 📸
buff.ly/T6JRv6e
See more great images, and submit your own recent photos, here:
buff.ly/2cMnW1f
Earth’s magnetic field remained restless over the past 24 hours. Conditions calmed a little last night, but the geomagnetic field is expected to remain unsettled to active through today and tomorrow.
Will you see #auroras? Read our daily #sun news:
buff.ly/sHlzSsM
📸 Larry Olson.
A crescent shape is above a dot, the star Aldebaran, and 5 small dots, the Pleiades star cluster. They are all above a starred dot, Venus, which is immediately above a wavy line, the horizon.
Today, as darkness falls, you’ll see the young #moon near #Venus. When true darkness falls, you'll see the bright star #Aldebaran and – if your sky is dark enough – the #Pleiades star cluster. Look for them before midnight! 🌒🌌
Watch this video for more information:
buff.ly/bt7pKkT
📸 EarthSky.org.
Vast field of yellow wildflowers, with mountains in the background.
Ross Stone in Eastern Sierra, Owens Valley, Big Pine, California, sent us this beautiful photo of #wildflowers last Wednesday. Thank you!🌼📸
buff.ly/1gUcz0K
Do you have a photo of your own you would like to share with us? We can't wait to see it! Submit it here:
ecp.earthsky.org/submit-a-pho...
A brown ant with 5 smaller ants around. The smaller ants show a darker brown color.
In a surprising interaction between two ant species, tiny cone #ants have been seen climbing onto much larger harvester ants and #grooming them. The larger ants don’t resist, they actively seek out the smaller ants and remain still while they’re being cleaned. 🐜🧼
buff.ly/MEJtH5D
📸 Mark Moffett.
Sky chart showing Mercury, Mars, and Saturn low in eastern predawn sky next to the nearly vertical green ecliptic line.
Viewers in the Southern Hemisphere will see 3 #planets – Saturn, Mars and Mercury – bunched together low on the eastern horizon at the beginning of morning twilight. #Mercury will easily be the brightest and the easiest to spot of the 3.
For more sky events, visit here: buff.ly/F9klIML
A line of identical planets that look similar to Earth receding into the distance.
Scientists searching for #alienlife can try to analyze starlight bounced from a distant #planet or listen for radio signals from space. Or, researchers said this week, they could look for signs in groups of unusually similar planets. Read why: buff.ly/qangKzV
📸 EarthSky/ AI.
A glowing white stream looping around an invisible object. Where the loop intersects itself there is a a bright explosion and vertical jets.
When a #star strays too close to a supermassive #blackhole, the hole tears it apart. Now astronomers say new simulations confirm the star's debris forms a narrow stream that circles the black hole and collides with itself. Read on: buff.ly/jsOzI6T
📸 DESY/ Science Comm. Lab/ Syracuse University.
Illustration of 2 galaxies, side-by-side, 1 with 2 arms, the other with 6, and arrows between them.
#Cosmologists have wondered if the laws of #gravity - as described by Newton and Einstein - apply everywhere across space. A recent study indicates that yes, they do, even on the largest scales.
Read about it at: buff.ly/aGa9C7v
📸 Lucy Reading/ Simons Foundation.
Sky chart showing 2 positions of the thin crescent moon near Venus, Pleiades, and Aldebaran in western twilight sky.
Tonight, check out the young #moon, a waxing crescent, near brilliant Venus#. And look for the famous #Pleiades, or 7 Sisters, a tiny dipper-shaped cluster. For more sky events, visit EarthSky’s night sky guide: buff.ly/F9klIML
Or watch this video for more: buff.ly/h5O1iWN
This video from Larry Olson in Vermilion, Minnesota, captures about 15 minutes of last night's stunning #auroral display. It coincided with the peak of a G2-level geomagnetic storm. Thank you, Larry Olson, for sharing this beautiful capture! Read the #sun news at: buff.ly/sHlzSsM
A dozen big, flattish sea turtles rest along sunny sandy beach as people gather nearby under palm trees and blue sky.
A popular photo this week was this one that Janet Devadoss-Yoder caught earlier this month. Janet wrote, "Green #seaturtles (Honu) basking in the midafternoon sun on the sandy shores of Poipu beach amid beachgoers in Kauai, Hawaii." Thank you, Janet! buff.ly/RHFLgzR
Read more at: buff.ly/tNuXHRh
Tonight, look low in the west after sunset for the young #moon near the sunset point, and near an exceedingly bright object - #Venus - the brightest planet visible from Earth. They'll be a spectacular sight! Visit EarthSky’s night sky guide at: buff.ly/uw2mYAQ
Or watch a video here: buff.ly/h5O1iWN
Wispy, glowing multicolored space clouds, with black inclusions, among many bright stars.
Shaurya Salunkhe in Pune, India, captured the Horsehead and Flame #nebulae 1,400 light-years away in the constellation #Orion. They are part of a vast swath of nebulae known as the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. Thank you, Shaurya!
buff.ly/TUvbcQm
Submit your photos here:
buff.ly/IXStDa6
Closeup of bee feeding on a cluster of bright yellow flowers with soft blurred garden background.
Jean Ricigliano in Hillsville, Virginia, captured this BUZZ-y #bee during an after-dinner walk. Thank you, Jean!
buff.ly/GyldeU0
Have a photo of your own to share? Submit it here!
buff.ly/IXStDa6
NOAA predicted #auroras last night! And there are more to come. Forecasters expect more G1 and G2 geomagnetic storming - and so more auroras - through the weekend. Read the sun news at: buff.ly/sHlzSsM
📸 NOAA/ SWPC.
Picture of a full moon rising with the words "Want to stay up-to-date with space news? Try EarthSky's daily newsletter."
Want to stay up-to-date with the latest #space news? Get EarthSky's free daily newsletter. Subscribe at EarthSky.org today!
Bright comet with long glowing tail streaking across starry night sky.
Jelieta Walinski Ph.D in Desert Bloom Observatory, Arizona, captured this stunning image of #comet C/2025 R3 in the early hours of April 15. Thank you, Jelieta!
buff.ly/nKyAuaf
Have a photo of your own to share? Submit it to us here!
buff.ly/IXStDa6
Concentration on white dots at upper left with it becoming more disperse and weblike toward bottom right.
On Tuesday night, the 5,000 fiber-optic eyes of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument swiveled onto a patch of sky. And it has now surveyed all the areas in the planned 3D map of the #universe. Read on: buff.ly/ZY86wzf
📸 DESI Collaboration and DESI Member Institutions/ M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab).
Diagram with rings around sun at 2, 4, and 6 light-years with labeled stars.
#AlphaCentauri is often said to be the closest star to our sun. The single star we see as Alpha Centauri becomes 2 stars through a telescope. This pair is just 4.37 light-years away from us. Read more at: buff.ly/IPPg0Us
📸 NASA PhotoJournal.
Sunset on a beach with people surfing and playing volleyball.
Computer models have been indicating that a super #ElNiño could arrive this summer. But this spring we've already seen conditions that point toward a strong El Niño. If it happens, we might see record high temperatures in 2026 and into 2027. Read more at: buff.ly/xYhFgqI
📸 Peggy Marco/ Pixabay.
Fiery red sunset over ocean with glowing horizon and streaked clouds above dark water.
Cecille Kennedy on the Oregon coast captured this marine #cloud layer during sunset that, over the horizon, looked like a distant mountain range. Thank you, Cecille!
buff.ly/9CVem5n
Have a photo of your own to share? Submit it to us here.
buff.ly/IXStDa6
The sun blocked behind a black mask with the round moon passing close by and a large curve for the Earth passing at bottom.
This morning, the new moon crossed nearly in front of the sun. This image is from the GOES-19 satellite. It captured an edge of #Earth and also the #moon. This weekend, the young moon will reappear in the west after sunset. For more, visit EarthSky's night sky guide at buff.ly/uw2mYAQ
Star chart with two stars connected by a line, faint outline of an old-fashioned air pump.
Look up to see Antlia the Air Pump! #Antlia the Air Pump is a Southern Hemisphere #constellation, although it can be visible in more southerly parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Regardless of which hemisphere you’re in, April is a good month to view Antlia. 🌌🔭
buff.ly/0GiMUfQ
📸 EarthSky.org.
Flower with big orange and yellow petals. It also shows some black in the center.
Our friend Cecille Kennedy took this colorful photo of a tulip from Depoe Bay, Oregon, and wrote: "Taken at this angle, the #stigma at the center appears like a miniature green creature with wings. The 3-lobed stigma is the female part of the #flower." Thank you, Cecille!
buff.ly/diTimGm
Sphere chart showing a dot, Mercury, above the eastern rim. Immediately below it are 2 other dots, Mars then Saturn.
Hi stargazers! This chart shows 3 #planets low in the east shortly before sunrise over the next few weeks. The brightest will be Mercury, alongside the much dimmer Saturn and Mars. 🪐🌌🔭
buff.ly/uw2mYAQ
📸 EarthSky.org.
Many small bright dots inside an oval outline, with other thin colorful lines crossing them. A small photo of a woman and EarthSky logo are in the upper left.
Did you see yesterday's livestream about the #Lyrid #meteors? EarthSky's Deborah Byrd shared 5 easy tips to help you make the most of this beautiful annual sky show. Earth is now moving inside the Lyrid meteor stream. So you could see a Lyrid meteor anytime now! 🌠🌌🔭
buff.ly/Iw2pFch
📸 EarthSky.org.
