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Nikon Announces Big ZR Firmware Updates and New Cinema Lens Series at IBC 2026
Sep 16, 2026
Alberto Lima
Coming out of IBC 2026, Nikon announced a big update to its ZR Cinema camera and the development of the new NIKKOR Z Cinema T1.9 VV series of lenses. Both announcements are a clear indication that Nikon’s future plans continue to push further and further into the world of high-end cinema grade optics and technology – breathing even more life into its acquisition of RED Cameras. There’s a lot to unpack, so let’s jump right in.
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…
The iPhone 18 Pro Is Finally Starting to Feel Like a Real Camera
Sep 14, 2026
Alysa Gavilan
The iPhone 18 Pro adds variable aperture, manual camera controls and new image provenance tools, making it feel more like a dedicated camera.
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…
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,…