space photography
A Dark Cloud of Creation: Circinus West Revealed by DECam
Aug 28, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
In the southern sky, tucked away in the constellation Circinus, lies a vast stretch of darkness. To the naked eye, it appears as an empty…
SPHEREx Maps the Carbon Dioxide Breath of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Aug 27, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
On July 1, 2025, astronomers in Chile spotted a faint object racing through the outer reaches of our solar system. The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is…
JWST’s New Image Unveils the “Heart of the Butterfly”
Aug 27, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has delivered its sharpest view of one of the most striking planetary nebulae in our galaxy, the Butterfly Nebula…
JWST Reveals the Secrets of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS in New Images
Aug 26, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
On July 1, 2025, astronomers using the ATLAS survey in Chile spotted a faint, moving object. Within days, orbital calculations confirmed something remarkable. The discovery,…
A Hungry Planet Caught in the Act by the Very Large Telescope
Aug 26, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
When astronomers discuss how planets form, they typically rely on computer models, indirect evidence, and years of piecing together theories. Direct proof has always been…
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…