Shot of the month

Alessandro Scalas, Lofoten Islands, Norway, 12 February 2025 Alessandro says: “The sky was cloudy, but then it opened up and started to turn green, and I was amazed to see a moonbow reflecting the lig

We leave La Serena at dusk, heading east towards the stars. The 90-minute drive winds through the Elqui Valley, lush green with vineyards and home to skies so dark that international observatories on

Two contrasting visions of humanity’s future in space

PHOTO: SHUTTERSTOCK/VIKTORISHY 1 W e can dim the ...

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the lack of true darkness in the middle of the year doesn’t make astronomy that easy to do. The planets are good at cutting through slightly brighter skies,

San Juan County, Utah. I’m hiking deep inside Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, searching for calendars carved in rocks thousands of years ago. Here, in the Four Corners region of the American Sou