Finnish Night Sky Photography: Joni Niemelä’s Moonlight and Star Trails
Finnish photographer Joni Niemelä photographed the night sky over rural Finland between 2011 and 2016, most of it in the region of Southern...
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Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Turn Streetlights into Columns of Light
On a bitterly cold night, the lights of a town can suddenly send tall columns of colour straight up into the sky. Blue, yellow and white sh...
Joni Niemelä’s Northern Lights Photos from Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland
Most northern-lights photographs from Finland come from Lapland, but Joni Niemelä made these far to the south, on the plains and lakeshores...
Glacier Camping in the Mont Blanc Massif: Night Photos Under Alpine Stars
Two tents glow on the Géant Glacier, the dark ridge of Aiguille d’Entrèves above them and the first stars coming out over the Mont Blanc ma...
Northern Lights in Yellowknife: A First Aurora Storm in Photographs
Yellowknife, the small capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories, is one of the best places on Earth to see the northern lights. A photogra...
Northern Lights Superstorm Video: Aurora, Kp and the March 2015 Storm
Curtains of green light ripple across the sky, their lower edges flaring pink as they twist and fold. This real-time aurora video, uploaded...
Tiina Törmänen’s Arctic Photos: Northern Lights and Snowy Forests
Finnish photographer Tiina Törmänen has spent more than 25 years photographing the far north: snow-loaded trees, northern lights over froze...
Edge of Stability: Jeff Boyce’s 70,000-Photo Storm and Night-Sky Time-Lapse
In May and June 2015 California police officer Jeff Boyce took five weeks off work, loaded his truck with cameras and went looking for the ...
Vincent Brady’s Planetary Panoramas: Star Trails Wrapped into Tiny Worlds
Planetary Panoramas is a night-sky time-lapse by Michigan photographer Vincent Brady that wraps 360-degree star-trail panoramas into tiny ...
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Lyrid Meteor Shower: April Dates, Peak, Comet Thatcher and Viewing Tips
Every April, Earth ploughs through a stream of dust shed by Comet Thatcher, and the Lyrid meteor shower lights up the night. It is one of th...