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Published by Daniel Mosquin
The El Capitan granite monolith in Yosemite National Park in California, extends about 3,000 feet (900 m) from base to summit along its tallest face and is one of the world’s favorite challenges for rock climbers.
Image via Mathias Van Hesemans 2017.
The two Magellanic Clouds – The Large Magellanic Cloud and its neighbor the Small Magellanic Cloud- are a duo of irregular dwarf galaxies visible from the southern hemisphere. Roughly 21° apart in the night sky, the true distance between them is roughly 75,000 light-years.
Photograph by: Hunter Davis
Hunter captured this image at 6 p.m. on May 24, 2017 at the South Pole, Antarctica. You can see more of the images from Antarctica that Hunter shared with EarthSky here. Thanks Hunter!
Artificial clouds generated by rocket fired from Wallops Island, Virginia on June 29, 2017.
Photo via Robert Williams.
Red star Antares in the constellation Scorpius and the multi-faceted deep-sky region surrounding it – June 24, 2017
via Samuel Muller in Bom Jardim da Serra, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Chirag Upreti caught this image of the waxing crescent moon on June 25, 2017. He wrote: “The waxing crescent moon illuminated at ~6% descends behind the Eastern Sierra mountains as the radio antennae in the Owens Valley Radio Observatory actively scan the skies to reward human curiosity.”
Rainbow reflected at sunset, via Fotograf Göran Strand. He captured this image in Vansbro, Sweden, over a river known as the Västerdalälven.
