Tagged: sky

Stars and lightning over Greece

Explanation: It may appear, at first, like the Galaxy is producing the lightning, but really it’s the Earth. In the foreground of the above picturesque nighttime landscape is the Greek Island of Corfu, with town lights surrounding Lake Korrision....

Incredible night photos of Vietnam War (7 pictures)

On this photos you can see American troops opening fire on a Viet Cong sniper who had been firing on a U.S. Army camp. For more than four decades photographer kept these incredible photographs to himself, not releasing them to the public until now.

Noctilucent clouds over Moscow

This panoramic night scene from June 8 looks out across a Moscow skyline from atop the main building of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Shining in the darkened sky above are widespread noctilucent clouds. From the edge of space, about 80 kilometers above Earth’s surface, the icy clouds can still reflect sunlight even though the Sun itself is below the horizon as seen from the ground.