Miguel Claro
Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory photo ambassador, a member of The World At Night and the official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve, he specializes in astronomical skyscapes that connect Earth and the night sky.
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By Miguel Claro Published
A beautiful crescent moon with visible earthshine forms a triangle with the Pleiades star cluster and the bright planet Venus just after sunset in this twilight scene.

By Miguel Claro Published

By Miguel Claro Published
A twilight scene shows a 96 percent illuminated moon peeking through the clouds behind the Roman Catholic Church of La Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona.

By Miguel Claro Published

By Miguel Claro Published

By Miguel Claro Published

By Miguel Claro Published
Captured 15 minutes after the end of totality during the longest total lunar eclipse of the century, this scene shows the red glow of a partially eclipsed moon very close to Mars.

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While Polaris is far from being the brightest star in the sky, finding it is not as hard as it may seem!

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The starry arc of the Milky Way galaxy sprawls across the evening sky on a spring night in this photo captured near the village of Campinho in Portugal's Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve.

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A close-up view of a moonscape near the lunar south pole shows many different impact features, but one in particular might catch your attention.

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By Miguel Claro Published
In this star-speckled photo of the night sky, the Andromeda galaxy rises above a puddle of acid water in Achada do Gamo, part of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve near Mértola, Portugal.

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By Miguel Claro Published
Stars, galaxies and an eerie, green airglow light up the sky over a hotel famously infiltrated by James Bond in the 2008 film "Quantum of Solace."

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As we get ready to witness a total lunar eclipse on Friday (July 27), here's a photo throwback to the rare supermoon total lunar eclipse of Sept. 28, 2015.

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This moonscape scene shows a cluster of impact craters on the moon.

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The Milky Way galaxy shimmers over a field of yellow flowers at dawn in this photo taken from the village of Monsaraz in Portugal's Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve.

By Miguel Claro Published

By Miguel Claro Published
The full "Pink Moon" of April 29 adorns the daytime sky over the medieval village and castle of Monsaraz in this photo taken in Portugal's Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve.

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A lovely cityscape view captured from a rooftop on Amoreiras Towers in Lisbon, Portugal, shows the last "Blue Moon" of 2018 rising above the city on March 31.

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