During a few weeks around the summer solstice, the situation in the highest regions of the atmosphere can be ideal to form a rare kind of clouds. Invisible by day, these clouds can be lit by the sun ...

In 1991, near the end of some book projects that took me on some lengthy photographic journeys through the American West by car for two years, I came up with the idea of creating posters of some of my ...

Summer is a time when many weary and sleep-deprived amateur astronomers and skywatchers put their binoculars and telescopes into hibernation. Depending on your location, the night sky may not get dark ...

The lack of truly dark skies is an issue for the UK in the summer months. Some compensation is the chance to see noctilucent cloud (NLC) displays, and here we’ll look at how to photograph them to ...

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The Fanal area is one of Madeira’s largest laurel forests, known for its mysterious and unusual landscape with trees said to be up to 600 years old. It grows in the northwest of the island, part of ...

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NASA is asking people to look up at the sky this fall and help scientists determine how accurately a satellite can measure clouds from space. The PACE Clouds Challenge will run from Sept. 15 through ...