Slooh, a public online observatory, will be livestream the eclipse and comet for all to see.

Comet Pan-STARRS appeared in the D.C. sky yesterday evening.

Last night, the District experienced an amazing golden hour, thanks to a flash storm which came and went just in time to allow some of our Flickr contributors to get out and capture the sky, still cut open from the deluge, recoiling back as the sun set behind it….

You know, I still haven’t caught Roland Emmerich’s most recent entry into the popcorn-mageddon genre — mostly because I utterly refuse to believe that a middle-aged Lloyd Dobler could, in any way, shape or form, be the man who manages to lead a human resistance against any kind of oncoming natural apocalypse — but I’d reckon that when the end days are upon us, the skies above will probably look a lot like these…

Since many of you will already be out tonight at Fort Reno or Screen on the Green, go ahead and tilt your head upwards to catch an even more spectacular show. The Perseid meteor shower has actually been appearing for a couple weeks already, as debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle burns up as it enters Earth’s atmosphere, but tonight is special as it reaches its annual peak. The best part about meteor showers is that…