Posts by Author: Soumyadeep Mukherjee

Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Soumyadeep Mukherjee is an award-winning astrophotographer from India. He has a doctorate degree in Linguistics. His work extends to the sub-genres of nightscape, deep sky, solar, lunar and optical phenomenon photography. He is also a photography educator and has conducted numerous workshops. His works have appeared in over 40 books & magazines including Astronomy, BBC Sky at Night, Sky & Telescope among others, and in various websites including National Geographic, NASA, Forbes. He was the first Indian to win “Astronomy Photographer of the Year” award in a major category.

    NASA’s Perseverance Finds Buried Ancient River Delta on Mars

    Mar 26, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Subsurface radar observations acquired by NASA’s Perseverance rover inside Jezero Crater have revealed a previously unknown buried river-delta system beneath the western fan deposits of…

    NASA’s IXPE Reveals 2,000-Year-Old Supernova Remnant RCW 86

    Mar 26, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Supernova remnants preserve the physical record of stellar explosions long after the original event fades from view. They trace the interaction between expanding shock waves…

    James Webb and Hubble Reveal Saturn in Unprecedented Detail

    Mar 25, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The ringed planet Saturn changes slowly. Its seasons stretch across decades. Its storms can last for years. Even its most famous atmospheric structures remain stable…

    Chandra Traces the Decline of Black Hole Growth Across Billions of Years

    Mar 25, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Supermassive black holes dominate the centers of massive galaxies and regulate their evolution through sustained accretion and energetic feedback. Observations over the last two decades…

    VLT Captures Two Planets Forming Around the Star WISPIT 2

    Mar 24, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers have identified two accreting giant planets embedded within the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star WISPIT 2 using high-contrast imaging and long-baseline interferometry at…

    Hubble Photographs 25 Years of Expansion in the Crab Nebula

    Mar 24, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    For nearly a thousand years, the Crab Nebula has expanded slowly across space. Astronomers have studied it for centuries. Yet very recently, we can clearly…

    Very Large Telescope Captures a Close-up of the Triangulum Galaxy

    Mar 23, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    A new spectroscopic view of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 33 (Triangulum Galaxy) shows how modern integral-field instruments transform galaxy imaging into quantitative physical mapping….

    DECam Photographs One of the Oldest Stars in the Universe

    Mar 23, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers investigating the earliest phases of chemical enrichment in nearby dwarf galaxies have identified one of the most ancient stars known beyond the Milky Way….

    Hubble and JWST Reveal the Core of the Pinwheel Galaxy

    Mar 16, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers continue to revisit nearby galaxies with modern instruments to understand how stars, gas, and dust shape galactic evolution. One of the latest examples focuses…

    Largest Radio Map Ever: LOFAR Sky Survey Reveals the Hidden Universe

    Mar 16, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Over the past decade, improvements in radio interferometry and data processing have enabled surveys with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. One of the most ambitious projects…