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• The corona during the total eclipse of 12 August 2026, seen from Spain
  Lviatour. CC BY-SA 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The corona in fine detail, processed from many exposures
  2009 Miloslav Druckmüller, Peter Aniol, Vojtech Rušin, Ľubomír Klocok, Karel Martišek, Martin Dietzel. CC BY 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The diamond ring: the last sunlight shining through lunar valleys, just before or after totality
  P. Horálek, J. Sládeček and M. Druckmüller.. CC BY 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• Watching the partial phase through eclipse glasses, Rexburg, Idaho, 21 August 2017
  Daniel Case. CC BY-SA 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• A total lunar eclipse, 15 April 2014: the Moon turns red inside Earth’s shadow
  Robert Jay GaBany. CC BY-SA 3.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• An annular eclipse leaves a ring of Sun: Jinan, China, 15 January 2010
  A013231. CC BY-SA 3.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The partial eclipse of 12 August 2026 setting over the sea, photographed from Malta (a composite of seven photos)
  Marika Caruana. CC BY-SA 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• Perseid meteors and an aurora over Norderney, Germany. A composite of 64 exposures: in reality they arrive one at a time
  Stephan Sprinz. CC BY 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The Geminid meteor shower
  Asim Patel. CC BY-SA 3.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The Milky Way over the Trona Pinnacles, California. The yellow glow low down is light pollution from a nearby town
  Ian Norman (http://www.lonelyspeck.com). CC BY-SA 2.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The northern lights over Þingvellir National Park, Iceland
  Carl Young. CC BY-SA 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The northern lights in Tromsø, Norway
  Andi Gentsch. CC BY-SA 2.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The northern lights on Ringvassøya, near Tromsø, Norway
  Svein-Magne Tunli - tunliweb.no. CC BY-SA 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The northern lights above Lake Inari, Finnish Lapland, March 2018
  Ximonic (Simo Räsänen). CC BY-SA 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The northern lights at Abisko, Sweden
  Andrea Ullius from Chur, Schweiz. CC BY 2.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The northern lights over Bear Lake, Eielson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska
  United States Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Strang. Public domain. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• Camping under the northern lights near Yellowknife, Canada
  Steve FUNG. CC BY-SA 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The northern lights over Baltasound, Shetland, Scotland
  Mike Pennington. CC BY-SA 2.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• Luxor Temple, Egypt
  Marc Ryckaert. CC BY 3.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• Cape Spartel lighthouse, near Tangier, Morocco
  Diego Delso. CC BY-SA 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• Playa Chica, Tarifa, the southern tip of Spain
  Diego Delso. CC BY-SA 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• Star trails over Mount Teide, from the Cañadas crater at about 2,000 m
  Benedikt Markus. CC BY-SA 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The William Herschel Telescope at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, with comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS
  Whyistheskyblue1. CC BY-SA 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• A night in the Atacama Desert, Chile
  P. Horálek/ESO. CC BY 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.
• The Church of the Good Shepherd under the stars, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
  Sky_xe. CC BY-SA 4.0. Original on Wikimedia Commons.