space photography
Hubble Reveals an Album of Planet-Forming Disks across the Milky Way
Jan 16, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Planet formation is not a theoretical abstraction anymore. It is an observable process. Over the past three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has played a…
Hubble Photographs Stars Flaring to Life in Orion Molecular Cloud
Jan 14, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Star formation is a dynamic and violent process, governed by gravity, radiation, and magnetic fields. Although astronomers have studied stellar nurseries for decades, the earliest…
This is How You Change the Nikon Z9 Battery in Space
Jan 14, 2026
Dunja Đuđić
Changing a camera battery is something we do routinely, without putting too much thought into it. But when you see someone doing it in space,…
ESO’s VLT Reveals an Unexpected Shock Wave from a Dead Star
Jan 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
White dwarfs represent one of the most stable and predictable endpoints of stellar evolution. After exhausting nuclear fuel, stars with masses similar to the Sun…
Hubble Observes a Massive Stellar Jet: Herbig-Haro 80/81
Jan 12, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
High-resolution imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed one of the most extreme protostellar outflow systems known in the Milky Way. In a dense…
Chandra’s 25-Year Time-Lapse Reveals Kepler’s Supernova Remnant in Motion
Jan 8, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Type Ia supernova remnants provide a rare opportunity to study the long-term consequences of thermonuclear stellar explosions. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, the debris field left behind…
JWST Photographs Sextans A: A Rudimentary Galaxy with PAHs
Jan 7, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Low-metallicity dwarf galaxies serve as natural laboratories for studying conditions similar to the early universe. Their simple chemical makeup mirrors an era before repeated stellar…
New ESO Image of GAL316 Reveals a Limit to Star Formation in the Milky Way
Jan 6, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Star formation links the physics of interstellar gas to the long-term evolution of galaxies. Astronomers often describe this process in simple terms, yet the underlying…
Hubble Photographs Cloud-9: A New Type of Astronomical Object
Jan 5, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Modern cosmology predicts that dark matter assembled the universe long before the first stars ignited. Numerical simulations show countless small dark matter halos forming shortly…
NASA’s New Year: Chandra Captures Champagne Cluster Frozen in X-Ray
Jan 4, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Galaxy clusters represent the final stage of structure formation in the universe. They assemble slowly through gravity, accretion, and repeated mergers. These events release enormous…