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Instagram Takes on YouTube With Long-Form Videos. Again
Oct 28, 2026
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Instagram is “inspired” by another app once again. It’s now testing Features, a new format for horizontal videos up to 90 minutes long. For now,…
Rubin Observatory Captures A Giant Dwarf Planet Candidate Beyond Pluto
Oct 27, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A faint object in a crowded field of stars has given astronomers a new target in the outer Solar System. The object, called 2026 ED138,…
SPHEREx Captures Thousands of Brown Dwarfs in 102 Infrared Colors
Oct 27, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is giving astronomers a new way to photograph some of the faintest objects in our cosmic neighborhood. Its latest observations reveal…
Euclid Telescope Finds a New Comet While Photographing Distant Galaxies
Oct 26, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A streak in a series of space telescope images caught the attention of Mikko Pöntinen, a PhD student at the University of Helsinki. Pöntinen used…
Subaru Telescope Captures a Tail Stretching From Two Interacting Galaxies
Oct 26, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Two galaxies in the constellation Pisces share the frame in a new image from the Subaru Telescope. A long, narrow stream of material stretches away…
Citus iPhone Camera App Builds Film Looks From Real Scanned Rolls, No Monthly Subscription Fee
Oct 26, 2026
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Citus Camera is a new iPhone camera app that shows film looks live in the viewfinder, so the photo is finished and film-like the moment…
This Hubble Image Will Prepare Roman Telescope for a Dark Matter Hunt
Oct 25, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A reddish elliptical galaxy in a new Hubble image appears to have split a distant galaxy into two blue arcs. The arcs sit on opposite…
Rubin Observatory Captures a 144-Megapixel Image of the Seagull Nebula
Oct 24, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The Seagull Nebula lies about 3,700 light-years from Earth, in a region where young stars illuminate vast clouds of gas and dust. A new image…
James Webb Captures Thousands of Young Stars “Brewing” in Space
Oct 23, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed view of N159, a star-forming region in a neighboring galaxy. The image shows glowing gas, thick…
Mars Express Captures a Martian Landscape Shaped by Ancient Lava and Wind
Oct 23, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A new image from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft shows a vast, flat-topped mountain surrounded by impact craters, valleys, and long ridges. The…