space photography
Four Humans in a Few Pixels: Green Bank Telescope Captures Artemis II Near the Moon
May 18, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
During NASA’s Artemis II mission, the Orion spacecraft travelled hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from Earth while carrying four astronauts around the Moon. Throughout…
NASA’s TESS Reveals a Map of the Sky Filled with Alien Worlds
May 17, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Exoplanet surveys generate enormous volumes of observational data. Space telescopes repeatedly monitor stellar brightness, track subtle photometric variations, and search for periodic transit signatures hidden…
ESA’s Mars Express Reveals a Water-Carved Landscape on Mars
May 16, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
High-resolution orbital imaging has revealed how strongly water shaped the ancient Martian surface. Several valley systems on Mars exhibit geomorphological features indicative of large-scale flooding,…
Hubble Photographs a Galaxy During a Transition in Evolution
May 15, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Galaxies evolve through long and complex physical processes that reshape their structure, gas content, and stellar populations over billions of years. Astronomers understand the broad…
Hubble Revisits a Microlensing Event: A Preview of Roman Telescope
May 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers often describe gravitational microlensing as one of the most demanding techniques in observational astrophysics. A newly released observation from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has…
Chandra Image Reveals the Violent Merger History of the Abell 2029
May 12, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Galaxy clusters evolve through repeated mergers that redistribute gas, dark matter, and galaxies across megaparsec scales. These interactions leave behind long-lived signatures in the intracluster…
This Image of Mars was Captured from a Distance of 5 million Kms
May 11, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has recorded an unusual view of Mars while approaching the planet for a major gravity assist maneuver. The image, captured on May…
JWST Image Reveals Cosmic “Buckyballs” Around a Dying Star
May 10, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Planetary nebulae trace one of the final evolutionary stages of low- and intermediate-mass stars. The James Webb Space Telescope has captured one of the most…
Ash Creeps Across Mars: Mars Express Captures Decades of Surface Change
May 9, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Planetary scientists often describe Mars as a world shaped by ancient processes. Most of its volcanoes became inactive billions of years ago. Its magnetic field…
JWST and Hubble Find Massive Star Clusters Emerge Faster Than Expected
May 8, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have long treated embedded star clusters as one of the most difficult phases of stellar evolution to observe. Young clusters form within dense molecular…