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.

    Purple Swirls on the Red Planet: ESA Shares New View of Mars
    Sep 18, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Mars has plenty of ice, volcanic rock, sand and dust, a heaven for landscape photographers. A new image from ESA’s Mars Express brings all of…

    NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Spots a “Once-in-a-Century” Moon Crater
    Sep 18, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    NASA has discovered a new impact crater on the Moon that formed between April 11 and May 22, 2024. The crater, named after Thomas McGetchin,…

    Meet Qivika: This Device Turns Your Phone Into a Smart Telescope
    Sep 17, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    By now, you must be well-versed in smart telescope devices, what they are and how they work. But not everyone is looking for a smart…

    NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Takes Its First Look at the Stars
    Sep 16, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has taken its first image of the stars. But they look nothing like the sharp points of light we…

    Unistellar Envision Brings Augmented Reality to a 10×50 Binocular
    Sep 16, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Finding an object in the night sky usually means doing two things at once. You look through your binoculars, then look away to check a…

    This is One of the Largest Images James Webb Has Ever Captured
    Sep 15, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers have found something remarkably small hiding among the young stars of IC 348. The James Webb Space Telescope has identified brown dwarfs with only…

    Amateur Astronomer Discovers Impact Crater from a Satellite Map
    Sep 15, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Joël Lapointe was looking at satellite maps for a campsite when he noticed something unusual in northern Quebec. The feature sat around Lake Marsal, in…

    ESO’s VISTA Captures Hidden Stars of the Magellanic Clouds
    Sep 14, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds look amazing through a wide-field telescope. They appear as two diffuse patches beside the Milky Way, familiar sights in…

    NASA Astronaut’s Photos from ISS Reveal How Cities Have Changed at Night
    Sep 14, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Cities look very different from space after dark. Over the past two decades, the view has kept changing. The orange glow that once covered many…

    A New Supernova in NGC 7331: You Can Photograph It Too
    Sep 13, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    If you had photographed NGC 7331 a few weeks ago, you would have captured a familiar deep-sky scene. The galaxy‘s bright core would sit among…