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During the dry season at Botswana’s Makgadikgadi salt pan, temperature inversions lead to all manner of mirages.

Observing, The Sun

Secret Sky: Tropical Novaya Zemlya effects

Mercury during 2023

Sky This Month: March 2024

These are the ways our world will end

Vaonis’ Vespera is a portable smart scope that can be used for night — or day — sky viewing.

Telescopes and Equipment

Vaonis’ Vespera smart scope reviewed

Polaris lights up the Little Bear in the north.

Deep-Sky Objects

Binocular Universe: Northward bound

Countless people find astronomy fun, and for many good reasons.

Strange Universe: Celestial fun

Active Region 13055 on the Sun

Solar System, Stars

What causes sunspots?

Long-exposure images capture the stunning streaks created by Perseid meteors. Their tails can vary in color depending on their speed and chemical composition.

Exploring Turkey’s dark-sky delights

Mars InSight solar panel covered with dust

Robotic Spaceflight

Why doesn’t NASA build a mechanism to clean the solar panels on its Mars rovers?

The author’s grandchildren view the partial phases of the 2017 eclipse with a homebuilt Advanced Safe Solar Viewer.

2024 Solar Eclipse

Eclipse viewing made simple

The space station Tiangong has been constructed over the course of multiple launches. It consists of a central core module named Tianhe and two lab modules named Wentian and Mengtian. In this rendering, a Tianzhou cargo craft is docked in the foreground, with a Shenzhou crew capsule docked in the background.

Space Exploration

China is embarking on a science and exploration program of staggering scale

Antennas of the Very Large Array

Can astronomers do their work during the day?