space photography

    Gemini North Photographs A Comet Breaking Apart After Perihelion
    Feb 1, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Long-period comets provide a rare window into the earliest stages of solar system formation. These objects originate in the distant Oort Cloud and preserve primordial…

    Inside a Lenticular Galaxy: Hubble Captures NGC 7722 in Unprecedented Detail
    Jan 31, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Galaxies evolve through complex physical processes. Gravity reshapes them. Interactions disturb them. Gas and dust regulate their star formation. Over cosmic time, these mechanisms transform…

    JWST and Chandra Uncovers a Massive Protocluster in the Early Universe
    Jan 29, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers have found a massive structure forming in the early universe that overturns long-held ideas about cosmic evolution. In January 2026, a team using NASA’s…

    JWST Uncovers MoM-z14: The Most Distant Galaxy Ever Detected
    Jan 29, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The James Webb Space Telescope continues to redefine the observational frontier of modern astronomy. Using its near-infrared instruments, JWST now probes epochs that lie only…

    AnomalyMatch AI Reveals 1,400 Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble’s Archive
    Jan 28, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    For more than thirty-five years, the Hubble Space Telescope has opened windows into the cosmos that were once unimaginable. Scientists have used its observations to…

    ESO’s VLT Captures a Young and an Old Star in a Single Photo
    Jan 26, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    High-resolution integral-field spectroscopy has changed how astronomers study complex regions of the Milky Way. Instead of relying on isolated images or narrow spectral slices, scientists…

    Dark Matter and Cosmic Collisions: DECam “Bites” the Bullet Cluster
    Jan 26, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    For decades, astronomers have sought direct evidence of the unseen mass that dominates our universe. They call this mass dark matter, a mysterious substance that…

    Precious Rings of Space: ALMA’s New Image of Debris Discs
    Jan 24, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers around the world study the dusty remains of planet formation to understand how planets and solar systems come into being. Recently, the European Southern…

    James Webb Space Telescope Photographs a “Celebrity” Galaxy Cluster
    Jan 24, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Galaxy clusters sit at the top of the cosmic hierarchy. They trace the largest concentrations of matter in the Universe and mark the nodes of…

    Proba-3’s Artificial Eclipse Delivers the Clearest View of the Sun’s Inner Corona
    Jan 23, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Observing the Sun’s inner corona has long been one of the most persistent technical challenges in solar physics. The region lies just beyond the visible…