space photography
DKIST Captures the Sharpest Ever View of a Solar Flare
Aug 25, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
On 8 August 2024, astronomers pointed the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) toward an eruptive event on the Sun. The four-metre telescope, located on…
Hubble Photographs Messier 96 for the third time
Aug 25, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Messier 96 is one of those galaxies that look familiar at first sight. It has the broad disk and graceful spiral arms that we associate…
A Baby Planet under Fire: Chandra Photographs a Shrinking Exoplanet
Aug 24, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have caught a planet in the act of growing smaller. The world is TOI 1227 b, a gas giant only about eight million years…
Space and Ground-Based Observatory Telescopes That Transformed Our View of the Cosmos
Aug 24, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomy has advanced through instruments that allow us to see beyond the limits of the human eye. Observatory telescopes, whether placed above Earth’s atmosphere or…
The “Cosmic Hand”: Chandra Photographs a Hand-shaped Nebula
Aug 21, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has given us another look at one of the strangest shapes in the sky, the nebula MSH 15-52, often called the…
Surya: NASA and IBM’s new AI Model for Predicting Space Weather
Aug 20, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
When scientists talk about the Sun, they often call it “active” or “quiet.” Those words might sound gentle, but they hide a reality that can…
James Webb Space Telescope Photographs a New Moon Orbiting Uranus
Aug 19, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
For decades, Uranus has seemed like a fairly well-mapped world. Voyager 2 flew past in 1986, Hubble tracked its changing atmosphere, and astronomers counted 28…
VLBA Photographs “Eye of Sauron”: A rare, head-on look into a blazar’s jet
Aug 19, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have captured a remarkable radio image of the blazar PKS 1424+240. For the first time, we see its plasma jet almost perfectly head-on. In…
Hubble Photographs a Noteworthy Nearby Spiral Galaxy: NGC 2835
Aug 18, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The latest picture from Hubble features NGC 2835, a face-on spiral galaxy about 35 million light-years away in Hydra. The image looks familiar at first…
JWST Photographs Mysterious Bright Objects in the Early Universe
Aug 17, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
When astronomers turned the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) toward the deep universe, they expected to see faint smudges from the earliest galaxies. Instead, they…