space photography

ESA’s New 50cm Cebreros Telescope Captures Its First Image

Sep 24, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

ESA has a new telescope pointing at the night sky from its Cebreros Deep Space Station in Spain. The 50cm instrument has now captured its…



Subaru’s Deep Image of M77 Reveals an Ancient Galaxy Merger

Sep 23, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

M77 has always been a popular target for astronomers and astrophotographers. Its broad spiral arms surround a bright central region, giving it the familiar appearance…



AI Takes Control of a Professional Telescope for the First Time

Sep 21, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

A telescope has to make hundreds of choices during a night of observing. Which target should it photograph next? Should it stay on the current…



These Images Capture the Youngest Exoplanet Ever Found

Sep 20, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

A faint point of light in old observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory has turned out to be something unusual: the youngest known exoplanet…



Hubble Finds a Spiral Galaxy Whose Centre Spins at a Right Angle

Sep 19, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

Most spiral galaxies have a familiar structure. A bright central bulge sits inside a broad disc of stars, gas, and dust. Spiral arms wind through…



Purple Swirls on the Red Planet: ESA Shares New View of Mars

Sep 18, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

Mars has plenty of ice, volcanic rock, sand and dust, a heaven for landscape photographers. A new image from ESA’s Mars Express brings all of…



NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Spots a “Once-in-a-Century” Moon Crater

Sep 18, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

NASA has discovered a new impact crater on the Moon that formed between April 11 and May 22, 2024. The crater, named after Thomas McGetchin,…



Celestial “Shark” wins ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 18

Sep 17, 2026 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the winners of the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 18, and the 2026 overall winner is a dark…



NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Takes Its First Look at the Stars

Sep 16, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has taken its first image of the stars. But they look nothing like the sharp points of light we…



This is One of the Largest Images James Webb Has Ever Captured

Sep 15, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

Astronomers have found something remarkably small hiding among the young stars of IC 348. The James Webb Space Telescope has identified brown dwarfs with only…