Skywatching Archive
17 May 2013, 04:30 PM ET
A new video from a skywatcher in northern Michigan shows amazing views of the auroras and other cosmic wonders over the course of a year.
17 May 2013, 01:41 PM ET
The eruption shouldn't pose a threat to Earth but may supercharge northern lights displays.
17 May 2013, 11:05 AM ET
After a day of rest, active region 1748 unleashed class-M1.3 and M3.2 flares on May 16th and 17th, 2013. This same storm blasted 4 X-class flares between May 13 and 15.
17 May 2013, 09:16 AM ET
A NASA moon monitoring telescope captured the blast, which could be seen by the naked eye on Earth, on March 17th, 2013. The object was the size of a small boulder and may be part of a meteor swarm that also flew past Earth.
16 May 2013, 03:33 PM ET
The mountains of the moon are visible for those that wish to see them this month.
15 May 2013, 01:50 PM ET
Gorgeous skyscapes over stunning Earth scenes took the prizes.
15 May 2013, 11:19 AM ET
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has its eyes set on the sunspot that delivered X-Class flares from May 13-15, 2013. Close-Up views reveals x-ray flares interacting with the magnetic loops emitted from the Sunspot.
15 May 2013, 09:27 AM ET
See the amazing photos that won awards in the 2013 Earth & Sky Photo Contest.
15 May 2013, 05:00 AM ET
The artistic eye of astrophotographer VegaStar Carpentier yields a stunning image of the half moon in blue.
14 May 2013, 05:15 PM ET
German photographer Reinhold Wittich captured this amazing image of the Pleiades star cluster.
14 May 2013, 03:11 PM ET
Astronomers using the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile have exposed light from cold interstellar dust grains that are invisible to the human eye. The bright object is the Orion Nebula (Messier 42), an region of active star formation.
14 May 2013, 10:06 AM ET
The Sun erupted with 3 X-Class Flares (X1.7, X2.7, X3.2) during a one day period starting May 13th 2013. It was crackling with more flares before & after the most powerful ones. Can you determine how many flares recently named sunspot AR1748 tallied?
13 May 2013, 04:11 PM ET
The all-sky and wide-field cameras at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama delivered 2 different angles on an incoming object during the Eta Aquarid meteor shower on May 8th, 2013.
13 May 2013, 03:25 PM ET
The online Slooh Space Camera will offer live views of the sun through remote-controlled telescopes at 1 p.m. ET today (May 16).
13 May 2013, 02:07 PM ET
The first x-class flare (X1.7) of year was soon followed by a second more powerful X2.8-class flare, separated by about 14 hours on May 13th, 2013. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory had its eyes fixed on the show.
13 May 2013, 01:00 PM ET
See amazing photos of the sun during the peak of solar activity in 2013.
13 May 2013, 12:48 PM ET
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X-1.7-class flare on May 13th, 2013 and STEREO-B recorded the ensuing coronal mass ejection. -- As an added bonus, a massive prominence erupted from near the southwestern limb of the Sun.
13 May 2013, 07:00 AM ET
There may not be a lot of air, but there's still a lot of weather in space. Get the latest news of space weather and solar flares here from SPACE.com.
12 May 2013, 11:59 AM ET
The online Slooh Space Camera's Comet ISON webcast begins at 5 p.m. ET (2100 GMT) today.
12 May 2013, 07:56 AM ET
From images of an unplanned spacewalk to smartphone pics of Earth from space, don't miss these amazing space photos of the week.
12 May 2013, 12:34 AM ET
What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
10 May 2013, 03:27 PM ET
You can see Jupiter and the crescent moon shining in the night sky this Mother's Day.
10 May 2013, 02:54 PM ET
The "evening star" had been hidden by the sun's glare for months.
10 May 2013, 02:01 PM ET
See amazing photos of the annular solar eclipse of May 10 as seen by skywatchers in Australia.
10 May 2013, 01:39 PM ET
A telescopic camera on the island of Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory of Australia captured these images of the annular solar eclipse of 9 May 2013 for the SLOOH Space Camera network.
