Posts by Author: 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.
This is the Deepest Image Yet of Cloud-9: Almost No Stars Found
Sep 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have pointed one of the world’s largest optical telescopes at Cloud-9 and pushed an extremely faint target to the limits of deep imaging. The…
NASA-IBM’s New Lunar Foundation Model: AI to Study Lunar Images
Sep 12, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
For 17 years, NASA‘s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been photographing the Moon from above. It has recorded craters, lava plains, boulders, ridges, and the permanently…
ToupTek Launches AFW-Mini: A Compact 5-Position Filter Wheel
Sep 12, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A filter wheel makes a monochrome astrophotography setup much easier to operate. Once several filters are loaded, the camera can move from one wavelength to…
ToupTek AE676M: Is This the Only Astronomy Camera You Need?
Sep 11, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
An astronomy camera usually has a particular focus. Planetary cameras have high frame rates, and deep-sky cameras put more emphasis on cooling and low read…
ALMA Captures Two Massive Stars Forming a Binary Star System
Sep 10, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have caught two massive stars as they become a binary system. The pair is still forming within its natal cloud, and researchers have already…
NASA and ESA Satellites Capture Anak Krakatau Eruption from Space
Sep 10, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano began erupting on September 4, sending ash and volcanic gases into the atmosphere above the Sunda Strait. The eruption continued for…
NASA’s Chandra Captures Mysterious X-Ray Objects in a Spiral Galaxy
Sep 9, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy) has been photographed countless times. Amateur astrophotographers have captured its spiral arms from dark-sky sites, while space telescopes have studied its stars,…
This is the Most Distant Galaxy Proto-supercluster Ever Photographed
Sep 9, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have found a huge gathering of galaxies from a time when the Universe was less than three billion years old. The structure, called COSMOS-z3.1-A,…
A NASA Image Manipulation Trick is Now Revealing Ancient Rock Arts
Sep 8, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A faded painting on a rock wall can be difficult to reveal in a photograph. Centuries of weathering can leave its colors almost indistinguishable from…
Subaru Telescope Captures a Galaxy 260 Million Light-Years Away
Sep 8, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A new Subaru Telescope image has revealed an unusual lenticular galaxy 260 million light-years from Earth. NGC 4996 looks very different from the familiar spiral…