Starry Night Sky and Telescopes

A stunning collection of night sky images showcasing various star constellations and astronomical telescopes against deep space backgrounds.

Two children gaze at star filled night sky
Two children gaze at star filled night sky
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Orion set above Nanshan observatory near Urumchi, Xinjiang, China.
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SpaceX Starlink Falcon 9 rocket launch as seen from the National Geographic Venture in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico, North America Copyright: MichaelxNolan 1112-8933
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Parabolic antennas with blood moon at lunar eclipse, night shot, Raisting, Upper Bavaria, Germany, Europe
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Sunrise silhouettes one of Learmonth's three radio antennas and a maintenance technician. The antenna along with others belong to Detachment 1, 50th Weather Squadron at Learmonth, Australia, which, along with six other Air Weather Service solar observatories around the globe, monitors solar activities 24 hours a day. Exact Date Shot Unknown .Published in AIRMAN Magazine November 1994. Base: Learmouth Country: Australia (AUS)
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Mark gazing at a target, M22, in the Milky Way with his TeleVue 127 refractor at the annual Rothney Observatory Milky Way Nights for July 25, 2019. Several satellite trails mark the sky. Jupiter (brightest at right) and Saturn (at left) flank the Milky Way. A single exposure with the Sony a7 III and 15mm Laowa lens at f/2. Luminar glow effect added.
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Laser-guided sky tour at the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory in Canada.
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SpaceX Starlink Falcon 9 rocket launch as seen from the National Geographic Venture in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico, North America
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The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker Solar Probe is illuminated ahead of launch, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018, Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanitys first-ever mission into a part of the Suns atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.
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People watching an aurora in the northern sky over Rothney Observatory in Alberta, Canada.
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'Visitors from Space Reach the Earth', 1935. Artist: Unknown.
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Neowise comet before dawn, Emilia Romagna, Italy, Europe
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Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO) dish at night wit the Milky Way, Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
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Astrophotography of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS with Observer Silhouette
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Astronomers looking at Europe shaped star constellation
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3D rendered illustration of the surface of planet mars
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A viewer watches the International Space Station streak across the sky, Alberta, Canada.
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JSC2012-E-063489 (5 June 2012) --- The June 5, 2012 transit of Venus, the small dot in upper right of the disk, was captured by a Johnson Space Center photographer in Rocket Park. A Mercury-Redstone vehicle on display in the park is seen at left.
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Star trails showing Orion and Taurus rising behind the rock formations of City of Rocks State Park, New Mexico. I shot this Monday, Dec 29, 2014. The colours of the stars and trails have been boosted in vibrancy to show the colour differences better. Red Betelgeuse is at left, while the pinkish Orion Nebula is at centre. The cyan trail at right is Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2). Light from the waxing quarter Moon illuminates the foreground. A satellite streak is at right of centre.This is a stack o
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - As the sun rises, in the distance, spotlights illuminate the United Launch Alliance Delta II Heavy rocket that will launch NASAs twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission from Space Launch Complex 17B on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is scheduled for 9:08:52 a.m. EDT Sept.10. GRAIL will fly twin spacecraft in tandem around the moon to precisely measure and map variations in the moon's gravitational field. The mission will provide the most accurate global gravity field to date for any planet, including Earth. This detailed information will reveal differences in the density of the moon's crust and mantle and will help answer fundamental questions about the moon's internal structure, thermal evolution, and history of collisions with asteroids. The aim is to map the moon's gravity field so completely that future moon vehicles can safely navigate anywhere on the moons surface.
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a rocket launching into the sky over a field
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An aurora in Whitehorse Yukon Canada that appeared in the sky in the early hours of Oct. 1, 2012 due to the effects of a coronal mass ejection (CME) that erupted from the sun three days earlier. Image Courtesy of Joseph Bradley to read more go to a href= http //www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News092812-cme.html rel= nofollow www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News092812-cme.html /a b a href= http //www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html rel= nofollow NASA image use policy. /a /b b a href= http //www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html rel= nofollow NASA Goddard Space Flight Center /a /b enables NASAs mission through four scientific endeavors Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASAs accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agencys mission. b Follow us on a href= http //twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix rel= nofollow Twitter /a /b b Like
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A complex of halo phenomena around the almost full moon.
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Man looking through telescope watching European Union flag constellation
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Long Exposure Time Lapse Image of the Milky Way Galaxy
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A pass of the International Space Station in the brightening twilight of dawn, on the morning of June 1, 2015, with the gibbous Moon setting to the southwest at right. The view is looking south, with the ISS travelling from right (west) to left (southeast) over several minutes. This was the last pass of a 4-pass night, May 31/June 1, starting at 3:55 am MDT this morning. This is a composite stack of 144 exposures, each 2 seconds at f/2.8 with the 15mm full-frame fish-eye and ISO 3200 with the
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The aurora borealis is seen, with lingering sunlight at 0130 in the morning, from the USCGC Bear (WMEC 901) as it transits northward in Operation Nanook, Atlantic Ocean, Aug. 9, 2022. The aurora, also known as the Northern Lights, is an electrical phenomenon in Earths atmosphere.
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Southern France, Hautes Pyrenees, Pic du Midi de Bigorre Observatory, Astronomer at the foot of the dome of the telescope
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ISS006-E-32103 (February 2003) --- A portion of the International Space Station (ISS) is visible in this view of a starry sky, photographed by astronaut Donald R. Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS science officer, currently on board the orbital outpost.
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Stone man by the artist RENN at Skeleton Coast View Point in the Namib Desert under the starry sky, Lone Men, Kaokoland, Kunene Region, Namibia, Africa
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Night landscape of the glacier. male climber in a fissure with ice axes and an empty flag in his hands stands on an island between the ice walls against the background of the milky way
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April 1, 2012 - Nighttime strombolian activity. Precursor activity of paroxysmal eruption at Mount Etna Volcano, Italy.
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USA, Hawaii, Big Island, Volcano Mauna Kea, Mauna Kea Observatories, Mauna Kea Access Road, United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, James Clerk Maxwell Tel...
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An astronomer takes a selfie with purple auroral curtains in the twilight sky.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Only the exhaust plume remains at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida as the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, or TDRS-L, to Earth orbit soars into the night. Launch was at 9:33 p.m. EST Jan. 23 during a 40-minute launch window. The TDRS-L spacecraft is the second of three new satellites designed to ensure vital operational continuity for NASA by expanding the lifespan of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System TDRSS fleet, which consists of eight satellites in geosynchronous orbit. The spacecraft provide tracking, telemetry, command and high-bandwidth data return services for numerous science and human exploration missions orbiting Earth. These include NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station. TDRS-L has a high-performance solar panel designed for more spacecraft power to meet the growing S-band communications requirements. TDRSS is one of thr
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Guests in the Learning Vacations program at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre view the aurora on their first night of the program for 2019 on January 31. This is looking east, with the Big Dipper at left and Orion at right.
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At 2 am, a Mount Washington Observer, takes a temperature reading on the Obs deck using a flashlight.
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A lightning strike was recorded at Launch Complex 39B at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 10, 2022. NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher are on the launch pad in preparation for the Artemis I mission. The lightning strike was recorded by cameras stationed at the pad and mobile launcher using a special filter called a “clear day frame,” which provides an overlay of the raw frame on a reference image. Artemis I will be the first integrated test of the SLS and Orion spacecraft. In later missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first woman of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.
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An ice crystal lunar halo around the gibbous moon with an aircraft jet contrail.
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Still and video photographers document the test launch of a surface-to-air missile at McGregor Range South. Base: White Sands Missile Test Range State: New Mexico (NM) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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A lightning strike was recorded at Launch Complex 39B at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 12, 2022. NASAs Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft atop the mobile launcher are on the launch pad in preparation for the Artemis I mission. The lightning strike was recorded by cameras stationed at the pad and mobile launcher using a special filter called a “clear day frame,” which provides an overlay of the raw frame on a reference image. Artemis I will be the first integrated test of the SLS and Orion spacecraft. In later missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first woman of color on the surface of the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.
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Night Photography of Nuclear Power Plant and Milky Way
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Scientist netting Spotted Bats in Lillooet, British Columbia, Grasslands
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Wispy contrails from the launch of space shuttle Discovery on the STS-131 mission hover over the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Shuttle Discovery lifted off at 6 21 a.m. EDT on April 5, 2010. The seven-member STS-131 crew will deliver the multi-purpose logistics module Leonardo, filled with supplies, a new crew sleeping quarters and science racks that will be transferred to the International Space Station's laboratories. The crew also will switch out a gyroscope on the stations truss, install a spare ammonia storage tank and retrieve a Japanese experiment from the stations exterior. STS-131 is the 33rd shuttle mission to the station and the 131st shuttle mission overall.
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Man looking through sextant
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Proxima b planet orbiting the Proxima Centauri red dwarf star.
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A public stargazing session on a moonlit night at the Rothney Astrophysical Observatory, near Calgary, Alberta, Nov 21, 2015. Here, Robyn points out the star Vega with a laser pointer, while other look through telescopes supplied by members of the Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
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Rear view of a boy looking into the space through a telescope
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Laser Ranging Facility Aiming at Moon
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Research Meteorologist Jon Davies Photographs Lightning
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View of the parabolic mirror in Raisting at the earth station, Raisting, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
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The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, is seen above the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in this long exposure, as it launches from Pad-0A, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman's 10th contracted cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station will deliver about 7,400 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew.
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Australia, New South Wales, Coonabarabran, Virtual Solar System, Model of the Planet Neptune