space photography

    Hubble Reveals CDG-2: One of the Darkest Galaxies Ever Found
    Feb 18, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Deep imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unusually faint stellar system embedded in the Perseus Cluster. The object, designated Candidate Dark Galaxy-2…

    “Love from Above”: ESA’s Sentinel-2 Reveals Egypt’s Heart from Space
    Feb 17, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Multispectral Earth observation has transformed how scientists monitor vegetation, water distribution, and land use across arid regions. Among the most capable systems in this domain…

    Cosmic Heartbeat of Mira A: ALMA and VLT Captures Heart-Shaped “Lighthouse”
    Feb 16, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    High-angular-resolution observations of evolved stars often reveal complex circumstellar structures. However, few systems have produced results as unexpected as the recent study of Mira A….

    A Cosmic Heart: Chandra’s X-Ray View of the Cocoon Nebula
    Feb 12, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    NASA has released a new composite image of the Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146) using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The image highlights a nearby…

    Rubin Observatory Captured Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Before Its Discovery
    Feb 11, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory recorded interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in wide-field commissioning data approximately ten days before its official discovery. Astronomers later identified the…

    Egg Nebula: Hubble Captures Light Show Around a Rapidly Dying Star
    Feb 10, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The late evolutionary stages of low- to intermediate-mass stars involve intense mass loss, asymmetric outflows, and rapid structural change. During this brief transition between the…

    Hubble Captures Star Formation in Motion: Inside Lupus 3 and NGC 1333
    Feb 9, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Star formation begins inside cold molecular clouds, where gravity slowly overwhelms thermal pressure and turbulence. These environments remain difficult to study because dust absorbs visible…

    Fury in February: NASA Captures Consecutive Massive Solar Flares
    Feb 5, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    In early February 2026, the Sun entered a short but intense phase of eruptive activity driven by rapid magnetic restructuring in a newly formed active…

    NASA’s TESS Tracks Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS in Its Final Act
    Feb 4, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Interstellar objects move through our solar system at extreme speeds. They follow unbound trajectories. And they leave forever. When comet 3I/ATLAS entered the inner solar…

    JWST Reveals the Sharpest Ever Image of Dark Matter
    Feb 2, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Modern cosmology rests on a quiet assumption: most of the universe does not shine. Galaxies, stars, gas, and dust account for only a small fraction…