
Comet NEOWISE appears in the northwestern sky over Little Bitterroot Lake in Marion, Montana
on July 15, 2020. Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead Beacon
Star-trails over Half Moon Campground in Montana's Crazy Mountains on June 4, 2017.

Gazing at the Aurora Borealis and the Milky Way from a hilltop overlooking Wilsall, Montana on July 17, 2017.

Gazing into the Milky Way from a hilltop overlooking Wilsall, Montana on July 16, 2017.

Clouds flow through the evening sky over the old grain elevator at the intersection of K and Park streets in Livingston, Montana on May 16, 2018.

Exhaust from diesel-fueled train engines drifts into the frigid air above the rail yard in Livingston, Montana on February 9, 2018.

An evening rainstorm rolls across the Flathead Valley as seen from Highway 93 north of Kalispell on June 19, 2019.

The phases of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse as viewed from Casper Mountain, Wyoming.

The Orion constellation rises over a windmill a few miles west of Kalispell on Jan. 19, 2020.

Light from a campfire illuminates the boughs of a ponderosa pine tree against a starry sky at the Mill Creek Cabin in Montana in March 2018.