space photography
VLT Captures Two Planets Forming Around the Star WISPIT 2
Mar 24, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers have identified two accreting giant planets embedded within the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star WISPIT 2 using high-contrast imaging and long-baseline interferometry at…
Hubble Photographs 25 Years of Expansion in the Crab Nebula
Mar 24, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
For nearly a thousand years, the Crab Nebula has expanded slowly across space. Astronomers have studied it for centuries. Yet very recently, we can clearly…
Very Large Telescope Captures a Close-up of the Triangulum Galaxy
Mar 23, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
A new spectroscopic view of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 33 (Triangulum Galaxy) shows how modern integral-field instruments transform galaxy imaging into quantitative physical mapping….
DECam Photographs One of the Oldest Stars in the Universe
Mar 23, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers investigating the earliest phases of chemical enrichment in nearby dwarf galaxies have identified one of the most ancient stars known beyond the Milky Way….
Hubble and JWST Reveal the Core of the Pinwheel Galaxy
Mar 16, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Astronomers continue to revisit nearby galaxies with modern instruments to understand how stars, gas, and dust shape galactic evolution. One of the latest examples focuses…
Largest Radio Map Ever: LOFAR Sky Survey Reveals the Hidden Universe
Mar 16, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Over the past decade, improvements in radio interferometry and data processing have enabled surveys with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. One of the most ambitious projects…
James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Dry Ice in Butterfly Nebula
Mar 15, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Infrared spectroscopy has opened a new window into the chemical structure of evolved stellar systems. Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope have now…
ESA’s AllSky Cameras Photograph a Fireball over Western Europe
Mar 15, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Shortly before 19:00 Central European Time on March 8, 2026, a bright atmospheric entry event occurred over Western Europe. The object appeared as an intense…
Counting Craters: Mars Express Reveals Mars’s Ancient Landscape
Mar 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Mars offers a particularly valuable record of impact history. Large areas of the planet still preserve ancient terrain formed during the earliest stages of Solar…
NASA’s Chandra Maps 3,300 X-ray Sources at Milky Way’s Core
Mar 13, 2026
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
High-energy astrophysics relies on long observational records and carefully calibrated datasets. Over the past two decades, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has built one of the…