Photography

November 10, 2025

Airplane Passenger Captures Stunning View of Northern Lights From Window Seat

There’s something incredibly peaceful about staring out an airplane window, watching clouds drift by and the landscape roll out below (provided you’re not scared of flying). But imagine glancing outside to find the sky alive with the swirling colors of the Northern Lights. That’s exactly what happened to Dr. Ryan French, a solar physicist, author, and research scientist at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics.

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November 3, 2025

A Bird in Mourning Wins the 2025 European Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest

A heartbreaking look at the realities of parenthood in the wild won the 2025 European Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. Photographer Luca Lorenz took the moving photo of a male pygmy owl returning with a meal for his young, only to discover they were no longer in the nest. The 20-year-old photographer from Berlin became the youngest overall winner in the competition’s 25-year history.

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October 30, 2025

A Rare Circular Rainbow Wins the 2025 Weather Photographer of the Year Contest

A perfectly circular rainbow has come away with the big prize at the Royal Meteorological Society’s Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year Competition. Geshuang Chen and Shuchang Dong took the unique photo that earned them the overall win in this 10th anniversary edition of the contest. Engineer and astronomy photographer Geshuang Chen flew his drone above a lake for the spectacular capture, which shows a rare full-circle rainbow.

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October 28, 2025

Rare Red Sprites, Milky Way, and Southern Liguts All Captured in One Spectacular Photo

We’ve seen some fantastic photos of red sprites, but photographer Dan Zafra has given us something we’ve never seen before—red sprites, the Milky Way, the Aurora Australis, and a comet all in the same image. Zafra, who runs the photography and travel blog Capture the Atlas, came upon the incredible moment while traveling in New Zealand.

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