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Sunset in the Big Apple

Manhattanhenge takes place when the setting sun is perfectly array with Manhattan ’s rectangular grid of streets , lighting up the N and south sides of every cross street . The pretty spectacle happens four times a year , on two Set of two sequential day , typically in May and July . This pic , take by Lou Barber , register how the setting Dominicus rove warm , orange light along the street corridors .

Sunset from 86th Street and 3rd Avenue

Max Andrade captured this photo of the July 2013 Manhattanhenge sunset from the corner of 86th Street and 3rd Avenue using his iPhone .

View from Tudor City Bridge

This photo was taken by Chela C. on July 13 , 2013 , from Tudor City Bridge , on the east side of Manhattan . Chela used a Canon PowerShot 100 HS camera to take the photo .

Sunset from Tudor City Bridge

David Jeruzalmi took this picture of a partial Manhattanhenge sunset from the Tudor City Bridge on the east side of Manhattan . Jeruzalmi used a D7000/24 - 120 crystalline lens to tear the photo .

Preview to Manhattanhenge

Pamela Chasek snapped this photo of the setting sun on July 11 , 2013 , a day before the full Manhattanhenge sundown . Chasek take the photo with her iPhone from a rooftop of a building near the intersection of 56th Street and Second Avenue .

Manhattanhenge from Midtown

Robert Huckaby ingest this photo of the May 2013 Manhattanhenge sunset from midtown Manhattan .

Sunset Between the Skyscrapers

Manhattanhenge on July 11 , 2012 at 8:24 p.m.

View from Radio City Music Hall

Manhattanhenge from Radio City Music Hall on July 11 .

Crowds Gather to Watch Manhattanhenge

Screenshot of Manhattanhenge footage taken July 12 , 2012 .

Golden Orb in Manhattan

The view of the 2005 Manhattanhenge from Long Island City in Queens .

Manhattanhenge - Lou Barber

Manhattanhenge - Max Andrade

Manhattanhenge - Chela C.

Manhattanhenge - David Jeruzalmi

Manhattanhenge - Pamela Chasek

Manhattanhenge - Robert Huckaby

Manhattanhenge on July 11.

Manhattanhenge on July 11.

Screenshot of Manhattanhenge footage taken July 12.

The view of the 2005 Manhattanhenge from Long Island City in Queens.

A photo of the sun setting from the Moon

A photograph of Venus as a small dot against the sunset in space

a photo of the Milky Way reflecting off of an alpine lake at night

the silhouette of a woman standing on a beach with her arms outstretched, with a green aurora visible in the night sky

The sun in a very thin crescent shape during a solar eclipse

A photo of the �blood moon� hovering above Austin in March, 2025.

The sun launched this coronal mass ejection at some 900 miles/second (nearly 1,500 km/s) on Aug. 31, 2012. The Earth is not this close to the sun; the image is for scale purposes only.

Mercury transits the sun on Nov. 11, 2019.

A powerful solar flare erupted from the sun on Monday (Dec. 20).

The northern lights seen over a village near the Russian Arctic on Oct. 31, 2021.

The northern lights could heat up the next couple of nights during a strong geomagnetic storm. Here, the brightness and location of the aurora is shown as a green oval centered on Earth’s magnetic pole. The green ovals turn red when the aurora is forecasted to be more intense.

solar flares, solar eruptions

An image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system�s known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201

a person holds a GLP-1 injector

A man with light skin and dark hair and beard leans back in a wooden boat, rowing with oars into the sea

an MRI scan of a brain

A photograph of two of Colossal�s genetically engineered wolves as pups.

an abstract image of intersecting lasers