space photography
Amateur Astronomer Discovers Impact Crater from a Satellite Map
Sep 15, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Joël Lapointe was looking at satellite maps for a campsite when he noticed something unusual in northern Quebec. The feature sat around Lake Marsal, in…
ESO’s VISTA Captures Hidden Stars of the Magellanic Clouds
Sep 14, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds look amazing through a wide-field telescope. They appear as two diffuse patches beside the Milky Way, familiar sights in…
NASA Astronaut’s Photos from ISS Reveal How Cities Have Changed at Night
Sep 14, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Cities look very different from space after dark. Over the past two decades, the view has kept changing. The orange glow that once covered many…
This is the Deepest Image Yet of Cloud-9: Almost No Stars Found
Sep 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have pointed one of the world’s largest optical telescopes at Cloud-9 and pushed an extremely faint target to the limits of deep imaging. The…
NASA-IBM’s New Lunar Foundation Model: AI to Study Lunar Images
Sep 12, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
For 17 years, NASA‘s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been photographing the Moon from above. It has recorded craters, lava plains, boulders, ridges, and the permanently…
ALMA Captures Two Massive Stars Forming a Binary Star System
Sep 10, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have caught two massive stars as they become a binary system. The pair is still forming within its natal cloud, and researchers have already…
NASA and ESA Satellites Capture Anak Krakatau Eruption from Space
Sep 10, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano began erupting on September 4, sending ash and volcanic gases into the atmosphere above the Sunda Strait. The eruption continued for…
NASA’s Chandra Captures Mysterious X-Ray Objects in a Spiral Galaxy
Sep 9, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy) has been photographed countless times. Amateur astrophotographers have captured its spiral arms from dark-sky sites, while space telescopes have studied its stars,…
This is the Most Distant Galaxy Proto-supercluster Ever Photographed
Sep 9, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have found a huge gathering of galaxies from a time when the Universe was less than three billion years old. The structure, called COSMOS-z3.1-A,…
A NASA Image Manipulation Trick is Now Revealing Ancient Rock Arts
Sep 8, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A faded painting on a rock wall can be difficult to reveal in a photograph. Centuries of weathering can leave its colors almost indistinguishable from…