space photography
Hubble Reveals Messier 88: A Spiral Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster
Jun 1, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced a new high-resolution image of Messier 88, a massive spiral galaxy located within the Virgo Cluster, approximately 63 million…
Hubble Photographs a Faint Dwarf Irregular Galaxy ESO 490-017
May 28, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
In a recent observation, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured ESO 490-017, a faint dwarf irregular galaxy located nearly 23 million light-years away in the…
JWST Detects Massive Black Holes Growing Ahead of Host Galaxies
May 27, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The James Webb Space Telescope has identified one of the strongest pieces of evidence that giant black holes formed extremely early in cosmic history. Astronomers…
NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures a Timelapse of the Crescent Mars
May 26, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Remember NASA’s Psyche mission and the images of Mars it captured? Now, NASA has released a timelapse image showing the spacecraft’s approach towards Mars. The…
Join the Dots: Photographer Captures VLT’s Outline in the Sky
May 25, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
At the European Southern Observatory‘s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile, adaptive optics has become an essential part of daily operations. ESO has equipped all four…
Subaru Telescope Captures Three Galaxies: Three Different Stories
May 24, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomical images compress vast amounts of information into a single frame. A galaxy may appear as a simple patch of light. Still, that light carries…
Gemini North Reveals NGC 1514 Nebula: A Crystal Ball in Space
May 22, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Planetary nebulae offer astronomers a unique opportunity to study stellar evolution in real time. These expanding clouds of ionized gas form when aging stars eject…
Psyche Mission Captures a Crescent Red Planet During Mars Flyby
May 19, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has completed one of the most demanding operations of its deep-space mission. On May 15, 2026, the probe executed a precisely planned…
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…