space photography
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is Ready for Launch
Apr 22, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
NASA has completed the integration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, marking a critical transition from assembly to observatory-level environmental testing. Engineers combined the…
Hubble Photographs Young Stars and Jets in the Trifid Nebula
Apr 20, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The Hubble Space Telescope has produced a new high-resolution image of a compact star-forming structure inside the Trifid Nebula (Messier 20). This observation focuses on…
Subaru Telescope Captures a Galaxy Fading 20-Fold in 20 Years
Apr 19, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Deep multi-epoch imaging with the Hyper Suprime-Cam instrument on the Subaru Telescope has revealed a striking luminosity transition in the high-redshift active galactic nucleus J0218−0036…
NASA’s SPHEREx Maps Interstellar Glaciers Across the Milky Way
Apr 18, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have long suspected that the water inside planets begins its journey long before those planets exist. A new set of observations from NASA’s SPHEREx…
Chandra Captures Young Sun-Like Stars Dimming Faster Than Expected
Apr 17, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers use stellar X-ray emission as a sensitive tracer of magnetic activity in young solar-mass stars. This emission records how rapidly stars rotate, how efficiently…
Proba-3 Captures Faster-Than-Expected Solar Wind in the Inner Corona
Apr 16, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The acceleration of the slow solar wind remains one of the central unsolved problems in solar physics. Researchers know that this component of the solar…
DESI Completes the Largest 3D Map of the Universe Ever Created
Apr 15, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers study the expansion history of the Universe by measuring how galaxies trace large-scale structure across cosmic time. Spectroscopic redshift surveys provide the most reliable…
JWST Captures Exoplanet 29 Cygni b: Redefines Planet–Star Boundary
Apr 14, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have long debated how to classify objects that lie near the boundary between giant planets and brown dwarfs. Traditionally, researchers relied on the deuterium-burning…
ESA’s JUICE Photographed Comet 3I/ATLAS 180 Million Kms Away
Apr 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
In July 2025, astronomers detected a faint object moving quickly through the inner Solar System. Within days, orbital calculations confirmed that the object did not…
ESO’s PoET Telescope Begins Operations to Detect Earth-like Exoplanets
Apr 11, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Radial-velocity spectroscopy has reached a level where stellar surface activity now limits the detection of Earth-mass planets around Sun-like stars. Modern spectrographs can measure extremely…