Astrophotographers start twitching because seven planets -- Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune -- will be briefly visible in the night sky this week. [Read More]
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In the early morning hours of April 25 (Friday), a rare alignment of Venus, Saturn, and the crescent Moon will create a "smiley face" in the eastern sky. For photographers, it’s a brief chance to capture a celestial pareidolia. [Read More]
A creative photographer used ancient and mythical rocks as the basis of a 360-degree "stellar flower" image that shows the passage of day into night and the setting of Venus and the Moon. [Read More]
Photographers around the world may want to point their lenses to the western night sky tonight to capture a rare image of five planets lined up. [Read More]
A photographer captured Venus and Jupiter over a period of 10 days as they converged toward each other in the night sky, practically kissing one another at the apex. [Read More]
There aren't many good photos of Venus, and even fewer have been captured from the planet's surface. Distance alone can't explain the relative lack of pictures of Earth's second-nearest neighbor. [Read More]
The last few days have seen a parade of planets lined up in the night sky with Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, and the moon all visible -- a planetary alignment that won't happen again until 2040. [Read More]