space photography

    Hubble Space Telescope Revisits Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
    Dec 6, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    In late November 2025, the Hubble Space Telescope turned its gaze back to the cosmic traveller: 3I/ATLAS. At a distance of about 286 million kilometres…

    30 Years of SOHO: The Solar Sentinel Photographing the Sun
    Dec 5, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, better known as SOHO, left Earth in December 1995. Back then, no one imagined it would become a permanent fixture of…

    Gemini South Marks 25 Years: Photographs the Butterfly Nebula
    Dec 4, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The International Gemini Observatory has released its new image of NGC 6302, better known as the Butterfly Nebula. The new image marked a milestone. Gemini…

    Cosmic Ballet of ARP 269: JWST Photographs Two Dancing Dwarf Galaxies
    Dec 3, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The James Webb Space Telescope has released its December 2025 Picture of the Month. The target was a pair of nearby dwarf galaxies, NGC 4490…

    A Storm of New Stars: Hubble’s Sharp New Look at NGC 1792
    Dec 1, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of NGC 1792, and it is one of those frames that pulls you in immediately. In…

    Euclid Captures Orion’s Dark Cloud, Revealing a Hidden Stellar Nursery
    Dec 1, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The European Space Agency’s Euclid mission has revealed a new view of a dark and dusty region in Orion. The telescope captured an infrared image…

    OSIRIS-APEX Captures Earth and Moon Together: On the Road to Apophis
    Nov 29, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Space missions rarely pause for a moment of reflection. They push forward, cross distances that feel abstract, and operate on timescales far from everyday life….

    ALMA and JWST Reveals a Superheated Galaxy in the Early Universe
    Nov 28, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers expected the early Universe to look simple. They imagined small galaxies, faint clouds of gas, and slow steps toward structure. A discovery, however, has…

    Hubble’s New Look at N159: Young Stars Carving Bubbles in LMC
    Nov 24, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The Hubble Space Telescope has returned with a new image of N159, a large star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The scene is dense…

    JWST Photographs Apep’s Spiraling Dust Engine and Hidden Third Star
    Nov 23, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The James Webb Space Telescope has produced a new and sharper look at one of the most unusual stellar systems in our region of the…