Skywatching Archive
26 February 2013, 07:21 PM ET
On February 26th, 2013, Chris Pruzenski recorded Luna descending in Hemlock, NY. He used a Nikon D5100 camera with a Celestron C8-NGT, 1000mm telescope. The house in the video is 1.55 miles away from where he was shooting.
26 February 2013, 04:08 PM ET
One toddler's fascination with the moon has become a hit on YouTube.
26 February 2013, 01:10 PM ET
Sunlight reflects off mirrorlike water off the coast of the United States in this photo.
26 February 2013, 12:57 PM ET
When the ISS orbital track runs along the 'terminator' (shadow line), astronauts can witness a rare unsetting Sun. Images snapped during one orbit on January 6th, 2013 were compiled to create this video.
26 February 2013, 07:27 AM ET
Amateur astronomers have sent in some amazing views of the night sky this month.
25 February 2013, 01:36 PM ET
This March, the Gemini and Cancer constellations will dominate the nights sky, while the planets Jupiter and Saturn will be visibile through telescopes.
25 February 2013, 10:15 AM ET
A webcast from a telescope on the Canary Islands will show the full moon live.
24 February 2013, 07:59 AM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
23 February 2013, 07:00 AM ET
From a space chow to a lobster - shaped nebula, don't miss these amazing space pictures.
22 February 2013, 03:09 PM ET
The brightest star in the night sky is on full view now.
22 February 2013, 02:19 PM ET
Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille catalogued the positions of 9,766 southern stars in just 11 months in the 1750s.
22 February 2013, 12:02 PM ET
The video by space photographer Justin Ng captures views of the sky from Indonesia and took 12 days to make.
22 February 2013, 09:07 AM ET
The unexpected impact has become the fastest growing video event on the Internet.
22 February 2013, 09:00 AM ET
One night in 1913, nearly a quarter of the world could see fireballs falling in formation to Earth.
21 February 2013, 12:11 PM ET
Astrophotographer Chad Blakley captured three amazing videos of northern lights over Sweden's Abisko National Park.
21 February 2013, 09:00 AM ET
On the 100th anniversary of the historic event, astronomers Don Olson and Steve Hutcheon, have answered a long-forgotten call for more information from the pages of the science journal Nature.
20 February 2013, 06:36 PM ET
There's plenty to see now on Earth's nearest neighbor.
20 February 2013, 06:07 PM ET
Home of the hottest temperature on Earth also gets 'Gold Tier' rating for spectacular night skies.
20 February 2013, 04:00 PM ET
Veteran astrophotographer Ajay Talwar snapped the spectacular image of the crescent moon and Venus over the Ganges River in India.
20 February 2013, 03:14 PM ET
The blinking star Algol is actually a pair of eclipsing stars.
20 February 2013, 02:45 PM ET
Sped up for human ears, hear the largest infrasound blast ever detected by the world's nuclear-monitoring network.
20 February 2013, 11:22 AM ET
On July 19th, 2012, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory witnessed a medium sized flare accompanied by a enormous magnetic loop of superheated plasma emanating from the surface
19 February 2013, 06:49 PM ET
The gas clouds and tendrils of dust that compose the stellar nursery (NGC 6357) was observed of Europe's VISTA telescope's infrared imager. Credit; ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)
19 February 2013, 05:05 PM ET
Chad Blakley (lightsoverlapland.com) captured stunning imagery of the Northern Lights on February 18th, 2013. Powerful Auroras have filled the skies above Abisko National Park for 13 straight nights. This time-lapse shows the auroras on Day 13.
19 February 2013, 08:24 AM ET
Two comets in the Southern Hemisphere will light up the sky in late February before moving north in early March.
