space photography
Hubble and JWST Find a Cat in Space: Capture Three Views of It
Nov 1, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Cats are taking over the universe! A dark pillar of gas and dust sits at the center of a new Hubble Space Telescope image. Its…
Chandra and JWST Show a Ghost-Shaped Cloud Ahead of Halloween
Oct 30, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A cloud of gas and dust in the Carina Nebula has an unusual shape. Its rounded head and long, curved tail resemble a hooded figure,…
ESA’s Hera Spacecraft Resolves Two Asteroids From 1000 km Away
Oct 29, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft has captured its first image resolving Didymos and its smaller companion, Dimorphos, as two separate objects. Hera photographed the…
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…
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…