space photography

    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…

    Hubble Photographs the Most Massive Black Hole in the Universe
    Aug 16, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers have long searched for the heaviest black holes in the universe. These giants, called ultramassive black holes, contain tens of billions of solar masses….

    Perseverance Photographs a Helmet-Shaped Rock on Mars
    Aug 15, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    NASA’s Perseverance rover recently photographed an eye-catching rock in Jezero Crater. The shape looks like an old helmet, with a pointed crown and a flared…

    Fighting Dragons in Space: DECam’s detailed view of NGC 6188
    Aug 15, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    One of the latest images from NOIRLab turns a familiar southern target into a data-rich scene. The frame centers on NGC 6188, an emission nebula…

    Hera captures two Asteroid Portraits: Otero and Kellyday
    Aug 14, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The European Space Agency’s Hera mission is steadily building momentum on its journey to the Didymos–Dimorphos asteroid system. Recently, the spacecraft photographed two other asteroids…

    Hope probe maps Mars’s night clouds for the first time
    Aug 13, 2025 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    For decades, Mars watchers focused on the afternoon. Most orbiters crossed the planet at the same local time, so they kept seeing the same slice…