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The blood Moon is pictured during an eclipse in the night sky in Shanghai on 8 September 2025.

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Birds fly past a partial solar eclipse, seen over Liverpool Bay from Crosby Beach on 12 August 2026 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

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Members of the York Astronomical Society prepare to view the annual Perseids meteor shower in the village of Rufforth, near York, northern England on 12 August 2015.

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A woman uses two sheets of paper as the Sun is obscured by the Moon during a partial solar eclipse at Skegness seafront in Lincolnshire, north England on 20 March 2015.

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People across Sunderland will soon be able to see a partial solar eclipse as 90 to 96 percent of the Sun will be covered by the Moon.

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This all-girl parachute team was in a happy mood waiting to take the skies at the Sunderland Air Day. Left to right are: Barbara Holt, Ingrid Edwards, Annie Rousseau, and Fay Henson.

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Bob Olley (left) with raffle winner Mick Curry and his wife, Liz Curry.

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A full beaver moon rising behind St Michael's Tower on Glastonbury Tor in 2017

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A total 'blood moon' lunar eclipse as seen from Glastonbury in 2015

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The Flower Moon appears in the sky over St Anne's on the Lancashire coastline.

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The supermoon, called Beaver Moon, rises in the UK at around 3.30pm GMT.

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A Beaver Moon rises behind the Grade I listed St Michael's Tower on the top of Glastonbury Tor in 2017.

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The solar eclipse as seen from Dallas, Texas. The phenomenon was first seen in the Mexican resort town of Mazatlan. April 8 2024.

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February will see a full moon as well as a new moon.

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Europa or "Jupiter II" is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, with this moon orbiting at about 417,000 miles from the gas giant.

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Moon the baby donkey with police officers from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

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The Strawberry Moon will take place at 4.41 am on Sunday, June 4. This moon is associated with the season when Native American tribes marked the ripening of ‘June-bearing’ strawberries that were ready for gathering. As a supermoon this will appear on the eastern horizon in orange hues that will present vividly on Saturday evening (June 3).

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Staff at a farm have been left “devastated” after a baby donkey was stolen from her “distressed” mum in broad daylight.

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Graham Norton, Julia Sanina and Rylan can be heard on rail services across the Liverpool City Region. Image: LCR

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The Flower Moon of May 2020 (which was also a ‘supermoon’) rising above the village of Brixworth (Photo: Clive Mason/Getty Images)

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Eid al-Fitr comes at the end of Ramadan, a time of fasting and prayer for Muslims around the world. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images)

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Official crew portrait for Artemis II, from left: NASA Astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen. PHOTOGRAPHER: Josh Valcarcel

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Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Mars and the Moon aligned in the night sky earlier this week (Adobe Stock)

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A building-sized asteroid will fly closer to Earth than the moon on Saturday. Astronomers first spotted the space rock on 27 February and have been tracking its potential risk of impacting Earth.

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