EditorialIn an image provided by the National Weather Service shows the detection of a flash that was not associated with lightning over southwestern Pennsylvania on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. (National Weather Service via The New York Times)
EditorialSmoke from wildfires in the West hovers above the horizon at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, where stargazers gathered to watch the Perseid meteor shower. (Michael Ciaglo/The New York Times)
EditorialSmoke from wildfires in the West hovers above the horizon at Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, where stargazers gathered to watch the Perseid meteor shower. (Michael Ciaglo/The New York Times)
EditorialA remnant of a tepee at Meteor City, near Winslow, Ariz., on July 21, 2021, a tourist attraction that also included a giant dreamcatcher. (Ash Ponders/The New York Times)
EditorialTrain conductor David Steckel walks down the center aisle of the Wilmington and Western Railroad's Mt. Cuba Meteor in Wilmington, Del., on May 1, 2021. (Kriston Jae Bethel/The New York Times)
EditorialA Photo provided by NASA shows Halley’s Comet over Easter Island in 1986. The Eta Aquariids meteor shower is the result of debris from Halley’s tail. (W. Liller/NASA via The New York Times)