space photography

    Ground-based Telescope Captures the Fastest Star in the Milky Way
    Aug 20, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers have discovered the fastest known star in the Milky Way. Named S301, the star races around Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the…

    Solar Eclipse on Mars: Perseverance Captures Phobos Crossing the Sun
    Aug 19, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Just one day after a total solar eclipse crossed parts of Earth, NASA’s Perseverance rover watched an eclipse of its own from Mars. On August…

    NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Captures the Falcon 9 Impact Crater on the Moon
    Aug 19, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has photographed a fresh crater on the Moon created by a Falcon 9 rocket stage. The spacecraft captured the images…

    This is the Largest 2D Map of the Universe With 4 Billion Objects
    Aug 15, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Do you remember the largest 3D map of the universe released a few months back? We now have something new, again. Astronomers have released the…

    James Webb Reveals Dust and Water Around a Star Near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
    Aug 12, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The central region of the Milky Way contains one of the most extreme stellar environments in our galaxy. At its center lies Sagittarius A*, a…

    Three Telescopes Together Reveal a Colorful Tarantula in Space
    Aug 11, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    At a distance of about 160,000 light-years, the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus) gives astronomers a close view of processes that shape star-forming regions across galaxies….

    James Webb Telescope Reveals a Lion-faced Nebula in Space
    Aug 10, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Planetary nebulae mark one of the final stages in the lives of stars with relatively low masses. They form when a dying star loses its…

    Perseverance Captures Earth Passing Behind Phobos from Mars
    Aug 9, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    On July 2, 2026, the Perseverance rover pointed its Mastcam-Z cameras towards the evening sky above Jezero Crater. The rover was looking for a specific…

    This is the Highest-Resolution Image Ever of Our Sun’s Surface
    Aug 8, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    For most of human history, the Sun was a featureless disc. Even after Galileo turned a telescope towards it, observers could see little beyond sunspots…

    James Webb Opens a ‘Treasure Chest’ Filled with Young Stars
    Aug 7, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Deep inside the Carina Nebula, a young cluster of stars is fighting its way out of the cloud that gave it birth. The region is…