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Topic: Night Sky

A small town glows beneath a starry sky. (harpazo_hope / Getty Images)

Creatures of the night, unite

Carlyn Zwarenstein
The Northern Lights are seen above the Columbia River Gorge from Chanticleer Point Lookout in the early morning hours of May 11, 2024 in Latourell, Oregon. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Geomagnetic storm to bring auroras again

Matthew Rozsa
Woman with lantern watching a comet passing (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

How to see the "comet of the century"

Matthew Rozsa
The vantage point of the foothills of the Chilean Andes provides some of the best views of the night sky in the world, especially from Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. Earth is oriented in such a way that most of the Milky Way can be seen on a clear night from the southern hemisphere, where CTIO is located. (CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/T. Slovinský)

Protecting darkness in Atacama desert

Alexa Robles-Gil - Undark
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Silhouette of a man looking at the Milky Way Stars shining above (Getty Images)

Chris Impey, Connie Walker
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