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Photographer Richard Gottardo spent the winter camping out in Revelstoke, British Columbia, hoping to photograph the aurora borealis over the Rocky Mountains. He finally captured the phenomenon on April 13, 2013 -- just days before he was set to leave. While waiting for the northern lights, Gottardo turned his attention to creating images of star trails. He made these by merging multiple photos taken over the course of several hours. Click through to see Gottardo's shots. ...
The annular eclipse of the sun by the moon, as it will appear from Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, on the morning of May 10, 2013, at 8:49 a.m. local time. (Starry Night software) On Thursday and Friday (May 9 and 10), skywatchers in parts of Australia and the Pacific region will be treated to a spectacular "ring of fire" solar eclipse, in which the moon blots out all of the sun except for its outer edge. Here's what you need to know about this stunning skywatching event, which is also known as an annular solar eclipse. What is an annular eclipse? The orbit of the Earth around the sun is an ellipse, not a circle. This means that sometimes Earth is closer to the sun than at others. The ...
April 23, 2013 This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of Comet ISON was taken on April 10, 2013, when the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter's orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the sun (394 million miles from Earth). (NASA, ESA, J.-Y. Li (Planetary Science Institute), and the Hubble Comet ISON Imaging Science Team) NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope has snapped stunning new photos of Comet ISON, which could become one of the brightest comets ever seen when it zips through the inner solar system this fall. Hubble captured the new photos on April 10, when Comet ISON was slightly closer than Jupiter. At the time the icy wanderer was about 386 million miles (621 million ...
