An encounter with a fox at nighttime is a reminder of the many noises and songs of the wild, Dana Wilde writes.

The feeling of stupendous awe, of fear and beauty, and strangeness, arises when you watch the aurora, Dana Wilde writes.

Auroras have fascinating scientific explanation but offer the feeling of stupendous transparent beauty that touches the northern sky of your soul, Dana Wilde writes.

Some trees on Earth are believed to have lived thousands of years, raising questions about how they might experience time and our own concepts about what it means to get old, Dana Wilde writes.

The magnitude of our awe at the facts of supernovas is like astronomers hundreds of years ago seeing new stars where none had been before, Dana Wilde writes.

Exploding stars known as novas are relatively commonplace in our galaxy, with 30 or 40 novas a year visible through telescopes, Dana Wilde writes.

The rare times we can see Mercury in the night sky are reminders of the planet’s mysterious travels in space, like dreams that appear just before waking, Dana Wilde writes.