space photography
These All-Sky Images Reveal the Universe Across Different Wavelengths
Oct 4, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Look at a wide-field photograph of the Milky Way, and you will see thousands of stars packed across the sky. Dark dust lanes cut through…
NASA-ISRO’s NISAR Captures a Timelapse of a Volcano Erupting
Oct 3, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
From hundreds of kilometers above Earth, a NASA-ISRO satellite captured a Russian volcano changing shape. Over several months, lava has moved out of its crater…
This is the Clearest View of a Supernova Remnant Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole
Oct 3, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
There is a supernova remnant only a short distance from the Milky Way’s central black hole. Astronomers have continued to struggle to study it because…
ESA Satellites Capture Two Lagoons in Completely Different Colors
Oct 3, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Two satellite images released by the European Space Agency (ESA) give us an idea of how different Earth can look from space. One of the…
A Spacecraft Captured Earth’s Northern Lights Even in Daylight
Oct 2, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
We now have a very interesting and unique view of the aurora. ESA has released the first ultraviolet footage from the SMILE spacecraft’s Ultraviolet Imager…
Curiosity Spends 5,000 Days on Mars: Celebrates with a Panorama
Oct 2, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The red planet Mars looks blue and yellow in NASA’s latest photograph from Curiosity. The Curiosity rover has spent 5,000 Martian days driving across Gale…
Hubble Completes 200,000 Orbits Around Earth After 36 Years in Space
Oct 1, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
On September 19, 2026, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope completed a trip around Earth. This one was really special. Hubble completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth…
ESA’s JUICE Photographed Earth With Two Cameras: More to Come
Oct 1, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
On September 28, ESA’s JUICE spacecraft passed 8,640 kilometers above the Indian Ocean. As it moved away from Earth, one of its small monitoring cameras…
James Webb Captures Galaxies Magnified More Than 300 Times
Sep 29, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The James Webb Space Telescope has photographed the galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300, where gravity distorts and magnifies galaxies far behind it. This is known as…
NASA Captures Earth’s Changing Seasons From a Million Miles Away
Sep 26, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Four photographs from NASA’s EPIC camera capture how Earth’s tilt and seasons change throughout the year, as seen from more than a million miles away….