space photography
A NASA Image Manipulation Trick is Now Revealing Ancient Rock Arts
Sep 8, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A faded painting on a rock wall can be difficult to reveal in a photograph. Centuries of weathering can leave its colors almost indistinguishable from…
Subaru Telescope Captures a Galaxy 260 Million Light-Years Away
Sep 8, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A new Subaru Telescope image has revealed an unusual lenticular galaxy 260 million light-years from Earth. NGC 4996 looks very different from the familiar spiral…
Nikon Z8 Photographed Two Satellites Burning Up From an Airplane
Sep 7, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A Nikon Z8 has captured something most photographers will never get the chance to photograph: a satellite breaking apart as it falls back to Earth….
Spacewalks in Photos: Three EVAs and 19 Hours Outside the ISS
Sep 7, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has had a busy few weeks outside the International Space Station. Between 18 August and 1 September 2026, she completed three…
ESA Satellites Capture Wildfires, Drought and Extreme Heat from Space
Sep 6, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
In 2026, parts of Europe, North America, and other regions have faced intense heat, dry conditions, and widespread wildfires. The European Space Agency (ESA) has…
Gemini North Captures a Color Image of a Comet Breaking into Pieces
Sep 6, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
We now have a new color image of the comet C/2025 K1. NSF NOIRLab released the image on September 2, 2026. Although recently released, the…
ESO’s MOONS Sees First Light: Revealing Hidden Stars and Galaxies
Sep 5, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The Very Large Telescope has gained a new way to study the stars. At ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, the Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph,…
This Spiral Galaxy Image was Selected and Named by Students
Sep 5, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A pair of spiral galaxies is drifting toward a future merger more than 200 million light-years from Earth. The galaxies are known as NGC 7253A…
This Strange Image Shows How Our Moon Looks in Gamma Rays
Sep 4, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
We are used to seeing the Moon as a bright disk against a dark sky. With a telescope, its familiar face becomes more detailed. Craters,…
Hubble Reveals a Giant Superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Sep 3, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
It seems like Hubble is not taking even a single day off! After we just came across its brilliant image of Saturn’s south pole, the…